Show HN: Top Links from Hacker News, Reddit, Techmeme, PH on a Single Page | Better HN

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pengstrom4y ago· 13 in thread

Wow haven't been to reddit in ages, surprised it's so (subjectively) bad. Has it gotten worse or was I a fool before? It's cringeworthy

rjh294y ago

The frontpage is pretty bad. In my experience smaller subreddits are still good quality. There's a reason why people add 'reddit' to their search queries after all.

m12k4y ago

Yeah, public reddit is terrible, but make an account, unsubscribe the default subreddits and subscribe to smaller subreddits, and it can be awesome. A selection of subreddits I can recommend (depending on your interests of course):

bodyweightfitness, breadit, dataisbeautiful, digitalnomad, onebag, Ultralight, walkablecities, cozy_places, artisanvideos, relationship_advice, bestof, financialindependence, gamedev, gamedesign, HighQualityGifs, museum, Pareidolia, programming, programmer_humor, space, startups, SaaS, webdev, science

hguant4y ago

Reddit had a big shift recently when they had their mobile first redesign - it's made the website subjectively worse to HN types...and has massively increased its appeal. That, combined with the deep algorithmic shifts to the front page after the 2016 election cycle (when every other post was either a "give money to the Sanders Campaign" or "MAGA forever") has made it more difficult for deeper or more esoteric content to rise to the front page.

That being said, I find that Reddit is like Twitter - if you take the time to curate and cultivate your subreddits, you can have a very good experience there. The best of Reddit is the small subreddits that fit your niche and your communities.

laputan_machine4y ago

I think there are a few factors, but the biggest one I see is it's now so popular that every large sub has become an echochamber, you cannot disagree with the echochamber.

But, at the same time I think this has always been a problem, even 10 years ago the 'Reddit Hivemind' was a thing people spoke about. It's just worse now (because there are even more people using it, more bots reposting the same clickbait, more conglomeration of a few moderators owning several large subs)

0des4y ago

HN has a hivemind too believe it or not.

Edit: would the hivemind care to stop upvoting this so I could make my point here?

xigoi4y ago

Yes, Reddit is getting worse ever since it became mainstream popular.

marginalia_nu4y ago

They've been pushing hard for growth as well, which I think is probably the single most devastating thing to an online community. There is some amount of growth that can be tolerated while maintaining a sense of community and common culture, but when the new members are pouring in by the thousands every day, that is no longer possible. Most participants will be strangers to each other.

What few subreddits have survived this are either incredibly niche, or aggressively working to make new members lurk before they post.

swader9994y ago

It feels different than just echo chamber, like it got taken over by a top driven agenda to push the corporate/global narratives the last three years.

Reddit is nearly unusable out of box. Use it for smaller specialized interests and it can be very valuable. I use it for the baseball and hiking communities and I have a radically different experience than I otherwise would going thru /all.

dt2m4y ago

It really started sucking after the redesign, IMO. But who can blame them? What happened is the only outcome possible if your business model is Web 2.0.

coffeeblack4y ago

Reddit actively removed any diversity. Somewhat like Tw.

ppqq4y ago

You have to be more specific. Diversity of thought. Other types of diversity are heavily promoted.

hoseja4y ago

I've found out it gets surprisingly better around like page 10 of /r/all.

yoz-y4y ago· 4 in thread

There really ought to be a filter there to ignore the most mainstream subreddits. AskReddit's value is below zero. (same questions and answers being posted over and over)

Night_Thastus4y ago

If it could integrate a blocklist like what Reddit Enhancement Suite uses, then I'd definitely consider it. I've filtered about 200 subreddits. That sounds like a lot, but there are a ton of duplicate terrible meme/armchair politics/lazy content subreddits worth hiding.

robswc4y ago

The funny thing is, there was a time I thought reddit was "much better" than the likes of youtube and twitter for "serious topics" but over the past few years I've realized its the same thing, just being drawn out several paragraphs, lol.

There should almost be a blocklist similar to how ublock origin works. A maintained list of subreddits that are too bloated for their own good.

Is it possible for you to export your list so we can import it?

sph4y ago· 4 in thread

Took me a while to figure out which PH they refer to... it's Product Hunt.

onychomys4y ago

I was thinking that the top links from pornhub didn't really fit with the rest.

0des4y ago

Imagine me wondering what the point of knowing the pH of a remote webserver was.

dspillett4y ago

Possible warning of signs that an alien has got in and is bleeding over your racks?

nvr2194y ago

thanks

vesinisa4y ago· 2 in thread

I like it. It loads really fast and there's nothing extra - just AllTopLinks.com like it says on the can.

BTW Probably a stupid question but what is the site with the logo that looks like a T with a hyphen/horizontal bar on top (T̄ or ₸)?

ZakuzaaOP4y ago

That T thing is for techmeme. That's the best icon I could find on fontawesome that resembled techmeme's icon.

pc864y ago

It looks like the logo for alltoplinks.com as it seems to be on any site where they haven't created or don't already have a logo matching their theme.

freediver4y ago· 2 in thread

This has been around for a while and does the same thing (perhaps even better)

https://news.t0.vc

2b3a514y ago

    You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.
    https://news.t0.vc/

OA does display the basic list of links when JavaScript is disabled. Good luck to both projects.

ZakuzaaOP4y ago

Wow it's actually pretty good. Thanks.

mberning4y ago· 1 in thread

I like it. I would change the reddit contribution to only look at higher quality subs or just drop it. You have a generally decent mix of content on your page peppered with the worst of the worst from reddit.

marcusabu4y ago

First thing I noticed too. Filtering the sites would also be a nice feature.

systemvoltage4y ago· 1 in thread

The best there is IMO: https://skimfeed.com/

High density, compact and loads fast.

Seems like it’s a good desktop option, but the mobile UX isn’t there. A single column responsive layout would make a big difference.

sumthinprofound4y ago· 1 in thread

I would subscribe via RSS if a feed was available.

ZakuzaaOP4y ago

Noted. I'll add that.

SMAAART4y ago· 1 in thread

PH stands for?

ZakuzaaOP4y ago

ProductHunt

JetSpiegel4y ago· 1 in thread

> No Tracking

And yet, loads 5 domains straight up: cloudflare, fotawesome, hwcdn, jquery

ZakuzaaOP4y ago

Good catch. I have removed jquery. Now fontawesome is the only outside file that's being called.

2b3a514y ago

Thank you for sharing this work. I've now bookmarked your page. A few suggestions...

Date and time displayed on each link

Consider adding an RSS feed

Consider (real edge case here) adding a plain text alternative with the origin Web site stated after each link (e.g. test using links or w3m in a terminal)

Nice, will bookmark this. Could you change the reddit-links to point to old.reddit.com instead? Or would this break something else?

coaltunbey4y ago

You might enjoy this one too: https://github.com/karakanb/devo

Operyl4y ago

A suggestion: filtering out NSFW posts. There's an AskReddit NSFW post at the bottom right now, haha. Or having a page where it's filtered out, I think.

blinding-streak4y ago

I expected something like the now defunct popurls.com, but this is much nicer. Good work.

https://biztoc.com & https://terminal.news for Business / Crypto

t_mann4y ago

Fyi, you can achieve something similar tailored to your own preferences by using a tool like rssmix.com plus the RSS reader of your choice.

Very nice! Are you using the hacker news api?

philonoist4y ago

Strangely similar to Guy Kawasaki's https://alltop.com/

https://guykawasaki.com/alltop-version/

XCSme4y ago

Funny how you can usually know which site a link is from based on how the title is worded.

> I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge - HN

> What’s a sign of extremely low intelligence? - AskReddit

> Chinese government data shows domestic smartphone shipments fell 30% YoY to ~86M units in the first four months of 2022 amid the resurgence of COVID-19 in China - News/WSJ

mkl4y ago

Similar but more for general news is https://sumi.news/, which has more sites and groups the stories by site.

RISKIAWAN4y ago

hellow Hacker.. salam dari indonesia

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