So I kind of ignored reddit for a long time. Back when Digg was new is I kind of viewed Reddit as an even uglier looking social news voting site.
I recently started paying attention to it again because of the AMA sections and Pebble developers posting there a lot.
After probing around more I think Reddit has a lot more in common with IRC. There are piles of channels/subreddit's including many disturbing ones, there is also lots of really good info and interesting conversation mixed with random noise. It even has BOTs hanging around.
To me reddit seems like a mix of slashdot and 4chan. And all of the quality of communication that suggests (for the most part, there are some good things in ama).
You hit the nail on the head Tom, Reddit is both awesome AND terrible and kind of reminds me of bbs/irc in that regard.
I've found some great stuff there, but I've also seen the pits of hell (so basically internet).
I've been dying for a new tech news resource though, most of the usual places have become stagnant or shifted content to non-tech related political editorializing.
Quote from: Mr. Analog on July 24, 2013, 07:54:00 AM
I've been dying for a new tech news resource though, most of the usual places have become stagnant or shifted content to non-tech related political editorializing.
This is why I consume most of my news though RSS feeds from many sites at once.
I don't find any one site very compelling on its own anymore.
Agreed 1000%, I mostly use news aggregators these days and only pop in to some traditional sites (like /.) on a more infrequent basis than I used to.
I miss the old days of news where there were more facts, less advertising disguised as news and editorializing was in a different column.
It seems like these days all you hear about are press release interpretation, there's virtually no original research.
Sincerely,
Grumpy Old Man Yelling At Cloud
(http://i.imgur.com/bkQ3CHK.jpg)
Ars used to be so awesome. then they were bought out and turned into half tabloid :(
They still have some good content, but too much of it is advertisments or stupid adversarial bull@%&#.
It's been a slow slide over the last 10 years, that's for sure
Quote from: Mr. Analog on July 24, 2013, 08:55:26 AM
Sincerely,
Grumpy Old Man Yelling At Cloud
(http://i.imgur.com/bkQ3CHK.jpg)
zomg, just last week I watched that ep, for the first time! Funny how life can be so inter-connected...
Quote from: Mr. Analog on July 24, 2013, 07:54:00 AM
You hit the nail on the head Tom, Reddit is both awesome AND terrible and kind of reminds me of bbs/irc in that regard.
Yeah, some great AMAs* and other content, but you also gotta be careful of the old reddit sar (http://uberpython.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/ah-the-old-reddit-switch-a-roo-analyzed/)... either cuz it's full of NSFW content, or cuz it's so fascinating that it'll suck up an hour of your life easy. (unsure which the above is -- decide for yourself via this link-clickable pdf (http://uberpython.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/znetwork5.pdf) )
Quote from: Mr. Analog on July 24, 2013, 08:55:26 AM
I miss the old days of news where there were more facts, less advertising disguised as news and editorializing was in a different column.
It seems like these days all you hear about are press release interpretation, there's virtually no original research.
tbh it seems the only long-running sites that are anything close to "news" providers = the ones with a large community of commenting/ranting/arguing participants. Who don't all have the same viewpoint, might I add -- cutting off dialog or having (via over-modding, too-slanted articles, etc.) only one side of the conversation, both of those kill a site imo.
*e.g. a few months ago, the morning after the season finale of Kitchen Nightmares aired, one of the servers ("Katy") who endured a nightmare employment at "Amy's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%27s_Baking_Company_(Kitchen_Nightmares))", she did an AMA and it was hilarious, emotionally stirring, and did I mention hilarious?