DISQUS

LapsedPacifist · 8 months ago

reddit has hands down the best comment and discussion system I've ever seen. Thanks for making it a great place to spend most of my time...or should I say DAMN YOU REDDIT FOR STEALING MY LIFE.....

mehmetel · 8 months ago

discussion system very good, thank you reddit

hjk · 8 months ago

i just took the survey. you should make the results available to everybody.

srikanth · 8 months ago

thanks hjk. i'm the author of the survey, and i'll be posting it soon.

Idied and WenttoReddit · 8 months ago

please please keep this spartan design, beloved Admins. Have you seen the atrocity that is the equivalent of "Sort by" over on Digg. They messed it up bigtime. I figured "Sorting by Top" would somehow help me get into the comments over there. The shocker was when I clicked on it, I started getting child posts which were rated higher than the parents. WTF is that Kevin Rose?

jonny_nut · 8 months ago

Wow, I find it kind of ironic that this post is about large-scale discussions, and everyone commenting touts reddit's implementation the best ever, yet this very blog is using DISQUS...what gives?

On that note, has anyone ever considered using Reddit code to create an open-source alternative to DISQUS? I wouldn't be surprised if it's mostly ready to go, just needing a few minor tweaks! Any volunteers?

mike · 8 months ago

Reddit's is ok but requires a good caching solution to be effective

JOE MAYO · 7 months ago

Reddit used to have more intellectual users proportionally about 2 years ago. Since then the place has come to resemble 4chan a bit more, which is both a good and a bad thing. In terms of the blurb from the intro of your survey all the things you describe have gotten worse on reddit. That is not to say that intellectual comments don't exist here, it's just that the content become more 4chan-esque. Before this website become closer to "mainstream" it was the best site on the internet imho. Now it still is one of the best sites but you have to subscribe to a lot of niche subreddits of people who are informed on subjects. For instance, the economics subreddits here are the opposite of what im talking about. In these econ subreddits a lot of people have been interested in the economy recently because of the financial crisis we experienced but they know little to nothing about economics. The result has been upvoting stories which are based on the one prevailing economic model (that is simple to understand) and has demonized the current situation like it is the the answer. Regardless of it is right (and I don't think it is), what has been occurring in this example is group think and narrow-mindedness. I'm in graduate school for international economics and these people are convinced they know what they are talking about and when discussion in the form of facts, trends, scientific data are presented they don't respond; they just downvote. Psychologically cognitive dissonance I think is occurring, but it would be interesting to see a study of this based on comparing the reddit demonization of socialism by the Austrian model followers of Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul, etc, to Hitler demonizing Jews for the economic downturn at the beginning of globalization.

I just want to clarify that I voted for Ron Paul in the primaries, and agree with him socially but have disagreed with him after attending some courses in international economics.

Harry · 7 months ago

Discussions could be improved by integrating higher selectivity and allowing people to only see what they want to or what they believe is relevant. A forum is like a large room where everybody has to shout to be heard -- but in real life you generally only speak to a few people who you know.

dizi izle · 1 week ago

Should be a good one. Thanks!