Is Reddit Unstoppable?

[Ice Tea]

the new redesign that they've launched is annoying a lot of the older users (me included) who prefer now to use old.reddit.com to see the old interface.

I found the site confusing to navigate so didn't really bother going back

Yeah , Something about it lacks definition so it looks visually cluttered and amateurish

[Ttaskmaster]

Yeah , Something about it lacks definition so it looks visually cluttered and amateurish

It's more like an old BBS sort of thing from the mid-90s, rather than a well-structured discussion forum. Lots of Menu Tree lines trailing posts all down the page. I almost expect to find a page of links with little blue balls!

[ik9000]

what's reddit?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Reddit is useful,and even as a community has done amazing things(like identifying dead people whose identity was not known for years, so their families can have some closure) but it can be its own reality distortion sphere,even by the standards of the internet.

[DanceswithUnix]

I find myself reading threads on Reddit quite often thanks to Google, but have never embraced the platform. I worry that would be a time sink so kind of don't want to go there.

It seems fairly close to the old USENET news system in general chaos what what little I have seen, is that an accurate view?

You are not alone in either! (In fact wen I first heard about Game of Thrones, I thought it was an online game - which caused me to lose interest immediately!)

When I first heard about it, Game of Thrones was a book series. I'm told it's very good though I didn't get far through the first one when the TV series started so I switched.

[Saracen]

Don't think I have ever used it - at least can't remember doing so.

That. Exactly.

I would say "never used", and that's probably true, but I leave open a little wriggle room that i might have visited briefly, years ago, and simply don't remember it.

Thing is, these days I deliberately limit my online time and mostly spend it here, with a decreasing amount of time elsewhere. Which reminds me, I ought to pop in and say hi at TPR. Not got around to visiting friends there for ages.

If any TPR regulars here see this, tell them I said hi, just in case I forget. And i'm getting forgetful.

Still, you know what they say about getting older .... first thing to go is your memory, second thing is ..... errrr, ....ummmm ....

[Zak33]

Is there another?

One does not simply ask if there are two Jon Snow's

[peterb]

One does not simply ask if there are two Jon Snow's

Well the only one I knew of was Jon Snow the Journalist/presenter, but I now know about Dr John Snow who was a pioneer in anaesthesia.

And it seems there was a fast bowler of the same name (John) in the 1960s.

[TooNice]

I have reluctantly signed up a few months ago. Generally, I find it fugly, and I am not a big fan of the organisation either (though it might be partly because I am not used to it). In general, I have a preference for "official forums". But what I've found, and eventually lead me to signing up, is that whenever an official forum goes down, either temporarily or permanently, it gets reborn in some form on Reddit. I've seen it happen for:

1. A forum that was permanently achieved (possibly completely gone now) not because the community died off, but whoever ran it didn't want to deal with it anymore.
2. A forum that went down for maintenance for several months that I wasn't sure was really coming back (but did eventually).
3. A game developer that had both an official forum and Reddit page, but eventually achieved the official forum to focus on the more popular platform (and even before it happened, you could tell the platform they favoured).

On a side note, I also only started watching Game of Thrones a few months ago. My reluctance for starting it was less to do with it's popularity but more for my aversion of American drama in general, where I generally think that they like to milk a series until it is no longer popular and before dropping it without a satisfying conclusion. I am actually not sure if my experience is the norm or not, but after getting burnt a few times, I tend to stay way now.

[Spreadie]

I have never spoken with a relative, friend or colleague who has said "I saw this thing on Reddit".

I've ended up on a Reddit thread when researching stuff occasionally, but the handful of times I've visited intentionally just left me cold - it's vast, yes, but seemingly poorly constructed and sparsely moderated.

The "front page of the internet" thing is laughable in my opinion. Maybe it has it's place, but no more so than Liveleak, 4chan or pornhub.