As many of you know, the Hubski team consist of mk, b_b, insomniasexx, forwardslash and myself. We are first and foremost users of the site. We dedicate what spare time we have to trying to make Hubski a unique and valuable place. That said, we are not the most sophisticated when it comes to monitoring where are users are coming from. I'm always curious how people find out about us? We do not advertise and we rarely participate in media interviews etc. We rely almost solely on word of mouth.
Over the years we have had a few notable influxes of users from other aggregators and this comes from people mentioning us favorably, something we are thankful for.
But how did you find Hubski? Have you ever mentioned it to a friend? I like growing via word of mouth, it's real growth, it brings in interesting people and it generally means we are doing things the right way.
Thanks in advance for any insight and thanks for being here. I think we've got a good crew these days!
Came from Reddit, like so many others. I prefer the level of discourse here, and the fact they even when people disagree, they are usually still able to have civil discourse ( there are, of course, shit disturbers everywhere).
I think we need to work to keep the content here high quality and the community here good, and you need people who care to do that. Thankfully, we have those kinds of people here.
Not sure there is a way to avoid "redditization" once you reach a critical mass of users. Some places are better at it, some are worse, but essentially any social aggregator is destined for a similar path once yo reach a certain number of active people.
See this. It all has to do with new users not "following the rules" or traditions of the original users. By that point, people like Kleinbl00 and flagamuffin will be on to the newest thing.
- I prefer the level of discourse here, and the fact they even when people disagree, they are usually still able to have civil discourse ( there are, of course, shit disturbers everywhere)
Really? The one time I made a joke about hubski turning into an echo chamber of atheistic superiority I got lynched by a guy who thought I was religious.
like I said, there's shit disturbers and assholes everywhere. The fact that your story surprises me is sort of evidence towards my point. If this were Reddit, I wouldn't be surprised if a large group of people did that to you, but Hubski is different. You can't just shout people down here, you need to back your shit up, especially on serious subjects.
In every joke there is a kernel of truth. Do you feel that Hubski is an "echo chamber of atheistic superiority"? maybe it's because I don't follow any religious hashtags, but i've never seen it.
I think I first found out about Hubski through a Theory of Reddit from a couple of years back? Something like that, one of the smaller and discussion oriented subreddits. I don't think there as much of an influx from that post.
I've mentioned it to a couple of friends, one has an account that he never uses and the rest don't use aggregates often enough to care. This is the 200th post of yours I've shared. Yikes.
I believe I came over after seeing that same post, as we've both been here for 490 days! I enjoy both the content and the personalities around here. What I appreciate most is the fact that the content here is free of circle jerking and the tired inside jokes of reddit. Instead, there is consistently insightful, critical comments that also allow for the unique personality of each user to be known.
It must have been the same post! I agree with everything you've said, Hubski is a great place to learn and have meaningful conversations with people. I definitely feel like I know a lot of you despite never having met any of you (going to change that one of these days...)
I recall both you and ButterflyEffect joining at the same time because I used to get the two of you mixed up based on your somewhat similar looking usernames. -That no longer happens as I've gotten to know both of you over the past 490 days.
This is my 184th reply to you. -I'm glad you found us pal and I appreciate you mentioning it to friends. I have found that it's really not for everyone. That said, it's not a generational thing, as is evidenced by any number of younger and older active hubski users. It's more of a preferential thing. I can't help but think that too many people dismiss the idea of joining a discussion community out of hand though and would really enjoy it if they gave it a shot.
At first glance, Hubski (and most aggregators) just look like a wall of text. That there are things happening and conversations occurring isn't immediately apparent. It takes an investment of time and I've had some of my closest friends not be willing to invest that time and I'm one of the founders of the site for cryin out loud. -Not the easiest sell to someone unfamiliar with how much fun and how interesting it can be.
Came from reddit as many others obviously have done. A recent change by the administration of the site has rendered large parts of it utterly useless and more to the point, the change was absolutely unnecessary.
I am recommending your site to everyone I am discussing this with throughout the site, in the last few days of preparation before I delete my account.
Regardless of the outcome there, I will be fully migrating to hubski shortly.
Welcome to Hubski walkingbush, I'm glad you are excited about the place. I would recommend checking out our Primer Page which explains the ways we are different from other aggregators and some of our functionality etc.
It is important to note that we have been a community for several years and while Hubski will be new to many, it's home for us. That said, kick the tires, check out the place and recognize that we are not a "reddit replacement," we are Hubski. -I'm glad you found us and I'm glad you will be spreading the word. If you have ANY questions about the site at all, feel free to PM me or "shout-out" to me. Again, welcome!
- It is important to note that we have been a community for several years and while Hubski will be new to many, it's home for us. That said, kick the tires, check out the place and recognize that we are not a "reddit replacement," we are Hubski.
I feel like this would be a great addition to the "Create Account" page. Maybe rephrase "reddit replacement" somehow.
We could just eliminate the word "reddit" and say we aren't a "replacement," we are Hubski. -Wow, that sounds arrogant :) Or... confident? It's a fine line.
I don't disagree that it could be part of the on boarding experience. Especially during influxes. mk, insomniasexx, b_b, forwardslash. Thoughts?
How about, "we're not a refuge from reddit, but you're welcome to join us anyway - we'd be glad to have you."
A little wordy, but that's the thrust of what I might like to see. We've had lots of conversations about hubski's relationship with reddit and the general sentiment is that we'd like to get out of that shadow.
Good people are good people and I think I'm not alone in looking forward to meeting more.
And my migration to hubski.com is complete - along with my final thoughts on the old place.
Don't read that if you are easily offended by obscenity. They are my actual thoughts, and uncensored. Hello hubski and my clean new life away from idiocy!!! :D
Same here. I also came from Reddit after finding a link to Hubski in the comment section of a thread I've been reading. While I don't think that most of the recent changes to Reddit are as big a deal as most redditors make them out to be, I really like what Hubski looks and feels like at first sight.
I don't think I fully understand how the voting system works just yet, even though I read through the explanation on the primer page, but I do like that it's not a up- and downvote system like Reddit's, and I especially like that there doesn't seem to be any kind of karma.
I'll definitely stay here for a while and see if I'll enjoy it as much in the long run as I seem to enjoy it now.
Hey ran, glad you found us. As for the "voting" it is much more like twitter than it is reddit in this regard. Instead of an up vote for a post, you "share" it. When you "share" it, it will make it in to the feeds of those that follow you. Make sense?
With a comment, when you click on the wheel you are essentially giving it a vote and that does make it rise in the comment thread. I hope this helps. Feel free to pm me with any additional questions. Welcome!
I think I've been here for about 3/5 of a year now. Wowza. That's the longest I've ever actively commented on a forum-type site.
Reddit, which will probably be most other people's answers. I think it was one of those cynical, circle-jerky "what do you hate most about Reddit?" askreddit posts. I only lurk on Reddit. I hate its community but pick the right subreddits and you can get some solid content/news.
I clicked the link, didn't expect I'd be here for very long, but this community interacts with people the same way I like to do so. And its built in such a way that low-effort content is abolished. And most importantly it let me post my own content without getting put on a stake. Good combination of stuff.
I mentioned it to my friend and my roommate. Both called me a "hipster" for being here. Guess they heard about it before but didn't want to use it? Fine by me, the longer I stay here the less I want people I know in real life to know about it.
- And most importantly it let me post my own content without getting put on a stake.
- I mentioned it to my friend and my roommate. Both called me a "hipster" for being here.
- ine by me, the longer I stay here the less I want people I know in real life to know about it.
Glad you found us 8bit!
Yes, the same thread that led me here too :)
I don't think I told many people about Hubski, I'm not sure i'd want people I know in here (Although I was surprised when I noticed a guy from my class back in CEGEP started following me here. I'm not sure he knows it's me and he mostly lurks but that was a strange "the world is so small" moment)
I told my boyfriend about this place, but I don't think he gets it. He likes to joke about how I spend my time on a website with 20 users.
I do try to recommend the site to people I meet while traveling. I'm not very good at selling it yet tho, I'll have to practice.
- I told my boyfriend about this place, but I don't think he gets it. He likes to joke about how I spend my time on a website with 20 users.
Did I ever send you stickers? If not, PM me and I'll get you some. It helps with the evangelizing :)
I think I came from that reddit thread as well.
I do tell people about hubski, but I'm selective about it. I got my girlfriend to make an account, but she wasn't really into it. I also tell friends and family if I think they will "get it." In fact, a couple days ago I was talking to a friend on Facebook who always asks interesting questions in status updates, and he seemed open to hubski, but our conversation also got a lot of attention from our mutual friends. In the future I'll have to be more careful with my pitching strategies, I don't want to accidentally dilute the community here.
I also came from reddit, but between waves, several waves ago. I think. I don't recall the post, but anyway, I wanted something with no porn on it. Because I am very easily distracted by porn. The hubwheel only resembles a bumpy nipple if you think about it. And only if it were on a very geometrically uniform person.
- Because I am very easily distracted by porn.
be back soon....
Like so many others I came her from reddit when they made new changes and heard this mentioned in that thread. While I originally kind of viewed this as new reddit I quickly found that it isn't. It's better, i like that old discussions are kept alive and that its way more focused on discussions as well as users not being as replaceable. I really like that you can follow people and get to read things you maybe wouldn't have checked out on your own.
Anyway, I will be recommending this site, maybe not so much on reddit but I'll try to get my real friends on here.
Hi, I just found this site through Reddit. I'm one of the minority who doesn't care about the recent change there; the thing that bothers me is how much people are complaining about it, even on other threads. The community has become rabid.
Hubski seems to have a very civil and rational community. I'll read the primer and see if I like how things are done here.
- Hubski seems to have a very civil and rational community. I'll read the primer and see if I like how things are done here.
I was typing random addresses into the URL looking for a good domain name to register and came upon hubski.com. Was rather upset it was already taken.
Someone mentioned it in a comment on HackerNews.
We are definitely familiar with HN. -Glad you found us greatscott, I enjoyed meeting you in the drinking club the other night and I've also enjoyed your commentary on the site. Thanks.
I had been looking for a new place to replace the image-filled craphole that reddit had become. I had purged my subreddits 3 times in 3 months and was still unsatisfied with the level of content I was finding.
Then, in a private subreddit, someone mentioned Hubski as an alternative. I was hooked immediately.
"Best reddit alternatives, huh?" You know, it's not in our nature to consider other sites as "competitors" etc so I've never really given it much thought, but who else is mentioned when that question arises? Who are the other "alternatives?" -Interesting food for thought. Glad you found us OB.
I came here from an AskReddit thread about cool/interesting websites. I occasionally visited Hubski, while being a lot more active on Reddit. Since I got shadowbanned some days ago on Reddit, and chances are that I'm going to lose my account, I'm going to stick with Hubski in the future. People are a lot nicer here and the discussions are polite and not full of insults and off topic jokes.
Sorry to hear about the banishment, glad you found us and look forward to seeing you around. It's nice to know we were mentioned in a thread about cool/interesting websites.
Some reddit comment, very bottom of a comments thread about something unrelated -- just said "hubski.com" -- the commenter had evidently gotten completely pissed off by the level of intelligence displayed in the thread... if I hadn't happened to have 15 free minutes I wouldn't have bothered.
(HINT HINT in my inbox I expect: "oh gosh we're glad you had 15 minutes flagamuffin" "oh flagamuffin what would we do without out you" "it was destiny flagamuffin")
EDIT: forgot to say I mention hubski to people all the time and they never join, which is weird because the conversation always begins, "Hey, how do you find and read so many cool articles" and always ends in confusion when I suggest they join a new website. ("Nah, I have CNN." Okay man.)
"oh gosh we're glad you had 15 minutes flagamuffin" "oh flagamuffin what would we do without out you" "it was destiny flagamuffin"
I'm very glad you found us and count you as a friend. I can recall the first time I thought to myself, "this guys really cool," it was when you told the story of your uncle preferring silence to noise. That's still one of my favorite parts of any podcast we've done. -Thanks.
- EDIT: forgot to say I mention hubski to people all the time and they never join, which is weird because the conversation always begins, "Hey, how do you find and read so many cool articles" and always ends in confusion when I suggest they join a new website. ("Nah, I have CNN." Okay man.)
You really have to test drive Hubski (or any other worthwhile site) for a good while to find the differences because the largest difference imo is the community itself.
Bem vindo meu amigo! Feliz por você nos encontrou!
If you have any questions about Hubski, let me know. There is a tutorial at the bottom of the page that is helpful, plus the primer page is also helpful.
Enjoy!
I was exiled from Reddit for the crime of posting content. For thought-crime, basically. I am enjoying my exile. There are far fewer rabid imbeciles here, and many very likable people who ask really fascinating questions.
Strictly speaking, I believe I found you via a Google search. Or the voices told me. I don't remember for sure.
Hey tng, I'm five days short of my 1000 days on hubski birthday. As I've mentioned to anyone who asks, I googled "higgs boson" and came across tng's love song to the higgs boson. Amazingly even with the higgs movie and all the events down at CERN, a link to your song is still on the first page of my google search.
However, the song is gone from the Higgs post on hubski. I also checked the place where you reposted a bunch of songs under the heading "Some of my favorite songs I've ever written from various" and ALL the songs are gone from there too.
Perhaps mk could look at this particularly bugski.
Yeah, we noticed the video link issue today, thanks lil. If one of my tunes brought you to Hubski, then surely it's the most important song I've ever written imo.
I recorded a song I actually am not disgusted by tonight. I think I'll propose it to the hubskioriginalmusic gang. I'll post it shortly.
1000 days!!! That's awesome lil. Lot's of good times in those 1000 days.
Glad you stumbled across the link, not sure what I'd do without the #weeklymusicthread. Does that hoody I sent you fit? I forgot to ask size. If not, they shrink when you wash them.
kleinbl00, you have definitely been the catalyst for many people to seek out Hubski in order to read your analysis of topics and we're definitely grateful for that. Over the years you and I have had many conversations on and off Hubski and I count you as a friend, but I don't think I've ever asked you how you heard about Hubski? Do you recall?