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Reddit Surpasses Facebook To Become the Third Most Visited Site in the US: Alexa (thenextweb.com)
According to Alexa, the Amazon-owned web traffic analyzing platform, more people now visit Reddit than Facebook in the US. From a report: Spotted, of course, on Reddit by user IamATechieNerd, the stats will be a big boost for the social sharing platform, especially with many users still irked about the recent re-design. It's important to note that analyzing web traffic using a tool like Alexa is not an exact science, but it's interesting that it has now put Reddit ahead of Facebook. If the stats are to be believed, Google is still the most visited site, followed by YouTube, Reddit, and Facebook, with Amazon rounding out the top five.
Facebook? Reddit? Alexa?
What are these things? Get offa my lawn!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Time for Reddcoin to climb in value! How about a target of $10 per coin?
#DeleteFacebook
Good. That means that in a few years, only nerds will use it, ads will become useless, news will be based on facts and stupid users like me won't post crap anymore.
Oh wait.
#DeleteFacebook
"I found it to be a confusing mess..."
It amazes me that, after many years, Reddit has not improved its web site design.
So true, brother. It looks like script kiddie central to me, but maybe I've just landed on the wrong parts. However, I have to say that your experience with Reddit mirrors mine. I'm just like "WTF is even good about this?". However, I'm absolutely positive I'm an outlier because I didn't get Facebook or Twitter, either. However, at least I can kinda see how someone with a different personality (more social) could get addicted to Facebook. I mean, the features are there, at least. However, Reddit just seems like a crappy forum that doesn't even measure up to a freakin' Php-nuke or vBulletin site. Anyhow, I guess I'll go back to coding. This is the longest bit of non-code I've written in a week or so. Thus, I guess not spending all day logged into forums and wasting time like my co-workers, I'm no worse for the wear.
Welcome to the modern internet, where pointless dreck will get you billions in IPO.
Honestly, I've found very little useful and valuable since Google News, the rest is just variations on themes of stuff like IRC, Usenet, and Gopher.
A shocking amount of internet things have left me underwhelmed in the last 15 years.
Me, I think we hit Peak Internet a long time ago, but all of the kiddies think it's brand new. I directly visit less than 15 sites per day, and even Slashdot I'm finding is a little tired -- my desire to interact with random people on the internet these days is waning.
Pretty sure that /r/NSFW accounts for most of those views
Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.
I unfollowed everyone on facebook because it's mostly just pointless or political crap that I couldn't care less about or I would piss people off by responding with devil's advocate tendencies. comments on posts are just as bad mixed with horrible filtering of "top comments". Reddit though feels much more useful on specific topics and hell I don't even have a reddit account, but a lot of times if I am looking up a subject or troubleshooting something I usually will click on reddit posts that come up in search first because usually comments are more useful, at least more useful than anything I ever saw on facebook.
If you find it to be a confusing mess, perhaps you should get off the internet.
Everybody knows Slashdot, the news for nerds, gets the most real people. Love all the tech stories and discussions there. Glad they're not political!
Do the owners of reddit still do mass fake posts to lure users into signing up? Ima guessing yes.
Used to be every community hosted its own forum. Now it's all on reddit, and reddit owns all their data.
Try finding sub-reddits for topics you care about. They generally have much better content and commentary than the default or most popular subs.
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The team that gets the most hits doesn't win; the team with the most runs wins. That's the way the game is played, those are the rules. Trump won 306 to 232 - that's the final number that matters.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Alexa mesures HTML / website visits to facebook.com. However, the vast majority of people who use Facebook use the FB app on a mobile device. A very tiny fraction of FB users do so using the website now. Facebook has 1.45 BILLION daily users. That's how many hits Reddit sees in an entire month.
Better known as 318230.
Google is still the most visited site, followed by YouTube, Reddit, and Facebook, with Amazon rounding out the top five.
Sure, but 37.8% of the hits to Amazon are people checking Alexa to see how popular their web sites are.
Huh. Is Alexa still relevant?
I think that's the real discussion to be had here.
Maybe, but overall I found it to be a tangled mess that I didn't feel like wading into. Kind of like someone asking you to help them move, then when you get there you discover he's a hoarder, and hasn't even attempted to pack anything up (or clean anything up; yes, this actually happened to me once). You turn on your heel and walk away because there's just no logical reason to deal with it. Haven't had any problems finding things I wanted to find other places than Reddit so why should I deal with it?
I keep hearing about this 'reddit' and I've been there twice.
What Reddit needs - more people as enlightened as you. May I suggest 4chan?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
It's not a mutually exclusive choice between either Ellen Pao or you being a bad person.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
I think we hit Peak Internet a long time ago, but all of the kiddies think it's brand new. I directly visit less than 15 sites per day...
When you finally drop off the internet completely, you die.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Well if Alexa says so then it's so! Bow to your information master!
I'm an old(er) fart who has been watching the absolutely fascinating phenomenon of social media for decades. (Yes, I do mean decades -- Google "FidoNet" for interesting reading if you're into that dusty historical stuff. I arrived a little late in the game with my pokey 300-baud modem, but I was there. I even bought my first domain name when Network Solutions -- colloquially "NetSol" -- was still the only game in town. Network Solutions charged $70 a year per domain name and offered a horribly unintuitive user interface -- faugh!)
I've accumulated a few observations from watching the long rise of Google and Facebook as well as the rise and fall of other successful or not-so-successful social media and web search platforms such as AOL, MySpace, AltaVista, GeoCities, Twitter, Snapchat, etc., etc., etc. Shall I include hoary old Usenet in that list? It's virtually a tautology to attribute the wild success of the web to the absurd simplicity of posting a simple website with basic HTML tags. Nor does the swamping of the modern web with extremely complex frameworks meant to overcome profound design flaws in the web detract from this point.
Anyways. For whatever it's worth, I've noticed that once a web service, be it a search engine or a social media platform, moves beyond obviously useful and non-confusing features into self-important "lookit what we can do now" frippery, it starts losing its original appeal and eventually its regular visitors. Facebook currently holds immense power as the default destination for hundreds of millions of people, but the company isn't immune to the fickle mindsets of customers for its brand of free and paid services (advertising in particular). The recent antics of the ultra-liberal leaderships of Google, Facebook, and Twitter in subtly or obviously silencing prominent conservative and libertarian voices and thereby gradually alienating a wider audience constitute only one of several serious problems.
Possibly more critical to the futures of these companies is the constant, ruthless manipulation of their audiences for maximum profitability. Mind you -- I say "maximum" profitability and not an enlightened "optimum" profitability. The former is the attitude of a greedy robber baron, and the latter is the attitude of a cautious business that knows what its customers want. Put simply, Facebook and Twitter in particular have become seriously annoying. Google isn't all that far behind. Their hundreds of programmers scamper here and yon in an unending effort to add features with little regard to how they clutter up the user experience. Hey, they've got to justify their salaries. Students of private and government bureaucracies learn this in Governance and Corporate Culture 101.
Most people want to talk to their friends and share pictures and videos without having to fight and kick and struggle against manipulative, intrusive, self-serving algorithms that keep nudging and prodding them into buying this and that or forcing them to interact with their friends in certain ways and not others. Let's not even get into the absurdities of a grossly oversimplified "like" system at Facebook that permits no subtleties of approval or disapproval. Beyond a certain point -- don't ask me where that point lies -- they silently and almost invisibly become ready and willing in their tens of millions to to suddenly abandon an old, familiar platform for a better platform that does exactly what they want it to do and nothing further.
Please note the concept of "non-confusing," which isn't quite the same thing as the older and more limited concept of "user-friendly." "Non-confusing" encompasses everything about the user experience. It means the platform only does what it absolutely must for the mainstream experience while making side trips like photographic manipulation as obviously simple as possible -- in and out and done. Visual triggers are okay but only if they quietly hover in the background with nil annoying behavior like flashing, blinking, sliding, jittering
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I found some of the communities great, but they are aggressively against me browsing their site, and I'm not installing an app for it.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Why do faggots like you have to show up in every goddamned conversation on the goddamned internet? Fuck the fuck off, stay in your basement, fap to your hentai waifu, and stop posting your verbal diarrhea on the internet, shithead.
Each sub-reddit is run differently, so you'd have to find to suit your tastes. A lot of the tech subs (like r/amd or r/intel) are fine, thought questions about coding and such seem better handled at places like Stack Overflow.
Unfortunately, the site is implementing a redesign for mobile that makes everything worse. I hope there's a GreaseMonkey script out there that fixes it.
Maybe people like you are making it a confusing mess and should stay off the Internet.
Honestly I did but it was the same stuff you'd find anywhere else but in a more migraine-inducing format that requires you to have an account to take part in the conversation. No thanks.
As a daily user of both Reddit and Slashdot for many long years I can easily say that Reddit has the far superior layout which is far easier to read and interact with of the two. Also, Slashdot denizens are much much closer to 4chan dwellers than anyone here wants to admit to. So my question to you is this. If you found Reddit so distasteful, then why do you hang around here?
You a very funny guy. I kill you last.
Reddit's format is a clusterfuck, but this place isn't much better. Slashdot invented user moderation after all, though Reddit took the step to sort posts by community ranking (read: conformance to groupthink).
The other fundamental problem is the 'tree' format. 4chan does it right imo, listing every post strictly chronologically. You get more of a sense of one big group discussion, instead of a hundred one-on-one discussions happening on top of each other.
..okay, I'll bite: why (and how) are they 'aggressively against you browsing their site'?
You're not missing much. The user base is nearly all young SJW leftists. Voat seemed interesting but it has the other end of the spectrum. Socially conservative tin foil hat conspiracy theorists.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
She was the "fall guy" who took the blame but got rid of all the parts advertisers would find objectionable.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Reddit is a pretty general site, the quality of what you find varies wildly by subreddit. The front page is pretty bad, but individual boards can have some of the best discussions around.
Was that meant to be a recursive comment, i.e. a response you made to your own comment?
Once again, msmash, that's not how you do it. The person speaking goes before the colon, and the thing he says comes after.
Good. That means that in a few years, only nerds will use it, ads will become useless, news will be based on facts and stupid users like me won't post crap anymore.
Oh wait.
The downhill side is the nature of the content which will continue reducing in standard ad infintum. Like TV and Radio it is degenerating to lowest common denominator stuff. Reddit and FB is the new standard until something even stupider comes along.
The good news is that unlike TV and Radio which have heavily restricted broadcast licenses, the Internet is a free for all, so there's still a place for intelligent interaction, you just have to look harder to find it.
A lot of the tech subs (like r/amd or r/intel) are fine,
OMG. The very fact that there are separate amd and intel subs and they are considered 'tech' is spooky. Do the people who frequent the amd sub peek into the intel sub but never, ever dare to post there? And the reverse for the intel sub frequenters?
Why would there be a 'divide' where there are two subs of this sort? Are both sites chock full of fanboys for intel or amd? And why would anybody actually interested in tech want to dip their toe into that?
I think the gp means agressively against browsing without an account. As in you get face fucked with a pop up pleading with you to create an account on every pageview if you arent signed in. Its a realnturn off and my Reddit usage has went down as a result. Fuck off with that shit, seriously.
fb doesn't have pr0n. reddit has lots and lots of it.
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
Very frequent 1/3 cover ups asking me to download the app, and a really crummy interface (worse than /.s request desktop site, and maybe even worse than /.s mobile version) that does a lot of loading new pages to read comments in a thread and then losing place when hitting back to go to the main post.
Even with all of that, sometimes it's the best place to get a good discussion on a topic. I never browse it, but give it preference when it comes up in my search results when I'm trying to get a question answered or a review.
Similar to /., The community (at least in some subs) makes dealing with the site worth it.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
I guess what I mean is they agressively want me to use their app, not their site.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
True, but as soon as you post something there's a 50/50 chance you'll be either banned, or worse, shadow banned. I used to help people in /r/openvpn, but after one of the mods found-out I opened a bug with a patch for a problem, he shadow banned me so for about a month or so I was replying to people to help them that couldn't see my post.
Go on.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
to become another backwater no longer having influence or significance, like myspace or yahoo's geocities or some other prototype social networking website that is dead or dying
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
reddit used to be good until all the losers from Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and digg 3.0 arrived.
https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/41054l/moderators_new_subreddit_settings_for_mobile/cyyj9rp/
As of two years ago, 50% of their users were mobile and climbing. I see no reason to assume that trend dropped off, so if Alexa is discounting the vast majority of Reddit's traffic as well then it's very likely Reddit is still beating Facebook.
And good riddance to Facebook.
FUCK BETA!
What'll happen next year?
However, Reddit just seems like a crappy forum that doesn't even measure up to a freakin' Php-nuke or vBulletin site.
Reddit is a collection of subreddits that are focused around particular topics. So the quality of commenting is relative to which subreddit you're in. The default reddits, presumably, don't attract the typical slashdot crowd. And there are tons of extremely deep, esoteric subreddits. The thing that makes reddit great is two things:
1. You can subscribe to different subreddits and customize your feed
2. The comment voting system and sorting system is pretty much the best the internet has come up with, and lets you filter out the garbage pretty easily.
Here are some subreddits that I like that might appeal to the slashdot crowd to get you started. Part of the fun of reddit is discovering and subscribing to new subreddits:
Chronological discussions tend to be abused, as many posters tend to post off topic comments on the few top posts. But that's what you get at 4chan, right? Also mod points get less distributed at non-first posts.
I think we hit Peak Internet a long time ago, but all of the kiddies think it's brand new. I directly visit less than 15 sites per day...
When you finally drop off the internet completely, you die.
What is off topic about that?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
I finally checked out what Reddit it, and it looks like a boring version of 9gag for more normal people.
Well, if you think reddit is SJW's then maybe you belong on voat then.
It's a bit like "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."
When you an extremist, everyone else looks like extremists.
If reddit looks like a bunch of leftists to you then you probably exist in a social sphere that makes everyone else look that way.
As a frequent user of reddit I can tell you that while its upvote/downvote system is very good, Slashdot's is better. Reddit's vote system encourages simplistic views (simple agree or disagree), penalizes unpopular opinions disproportionately (to the point that people will delete comments to stem a tide of downvotes) and tends to reward popular ones disproportionately in the other direction.
Slashdot's system caps has specific moderation reasons, out at +5, and bottoms out at -1. It encourages thoughtful moderation with limited numbers and distribution of modpoints (even though a lot of people interpret "+1 Insightful" as "+1 Agree") and limits piling on votes with hard caps, encouraging moderators to spend their points on a more diverse spread of comments.
I don't think Slashdot's system of moderation could be just transplanted into Reddit (not without even more stringent bot controls) but I do think it might improve the discourse somewhat. If moderator reports in r/BestofReports are anything to go by, a lot of users would like to be able to say exactly why they downvoted a post, instead of just using the report button like a "super downvote" and choosing a reason why.
Meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg has been heard, while checking the grocery list sticked on his fridge :
- WhatsApp... okay...
- Instagram... okay...
- reddit... Oh, crap! I forgot to buy it !
Then went and called the "snapchat clonign team" asking them if they could add a few more goals on their list ?
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Both are Jewish owned.
I call shenanigans. When reddit goes down for a day, slashdot's S:N goes straight into a shithole. Reddit may well have some excellent subreddits, but the average reddit user is wanktacular.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
in a more migraine-inducing format that requires you to have an account to take part in the conversation.
Says the guy who has an account on a site that doesn't require one to participate. You don't even need to use an email address to make a reddit account.
I like Reddit for a general aggregator. It is whatever you subscribe to, and you can display what you want out of those subscriptions. It is pretty clean, and only gets busy on certain subreddits. It has resisted a lot of change over the past years in spite of inner turmoil.
Why the actual fuck am I modded down to -1 Troll for this? Makes no sense.
News has never been based on facts. HTH
Brilliant. I love this.
Might I also add: /r/SysAdmin
/r/HFY
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As a conumer of SciFi, I enjoy the subreddit devoted to Humanocentric Badassery:
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Me, I think we hit Peak Internet a long time ago, but all of the kiddies think it's brand new. I directly visit less than 15 sites per day, and even Slashdot I'm finding is a little tired -- my desire to interact with random people on the internet these days is waning.
This is the digital equivalent of, "Damn kids! Get off my lawn!"
The internet has always been full of great information and also useless crap. I've been around since the beginnings of ubiquitous internet and I remember visiting sites just because they used the barebones UI concepts of the early 90s in interesting ways. The kids haven't changed, you've just gotten old.
In theory, what you're saying is right, in practice, it doesn't really matter. And because of the ease of commenting using reddits system compared to slashdot, more people participate. Generally speaking the funniest and most insightful comments bubble to the top, almost inveitably. I think this is because most subreddits contain people who are interested in the topic and are generally educated on it. In the big cesspools like r/worldnews and r/politics, all bets are off. But in the interesting, technical subreddits, it's really a non-issue.
You also have the ability to sort comments by methods other than total upvotes, so you can slice and dice it in interest ways. For example, sorting by the most controversial comments or newest.
But who the hell uses NetCraft anymore?
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