==== Arctic Sea Ice Re-Freezing at Record Pace (score: 1) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/62t2f/comments/c02nkyr Get the Caddy CTS-V! ==== Reddit, I know you love the ads, but how about putting them in an iframe so the slow ones don't make the rest of the site slow to load? (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62npt/comments/c02n163 Ok, give me a minute... ...done. ==== REDDIT: Why don't we get karma points for highly upvoted comments? (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62nn2/comments/c02n15z We actually keep track of comment karma separately and have been doing so for a couple months now. The plan was to make the numbers public once we had enough data, which I believe we do now. ==== The Meaning of Life (See Digg) (score: 48) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62f6f/comments/c02m9iy Thanks, and you found some spam. ==== Please reddit, add support for OpenID 2.0 (score: 4) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62c74/comments/c02m7s9 We intend to. Our palls at ClickPass convinced me to a couple weeks ago. The bigger question is whether we want reddit to be an authority server (or whatever the OpenID term is). ==== WoW skills used in life-threatening situation: Boy taunts attacking moose away from sister, feigns death and moose leaves. "Just like you learn in level 30 in World of Warcraft" (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62bhh/comments/c02ly3w He should have just kited the moose back to town and gotten the NPCs to kill it. ==== Adobe Flash. Plague of the Web. (score: 59) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/6285o/comments/c02lqcz I don't understand why there are so many disparaging comments here. He makes a great point about Adobe. It's a completely closed platform, and having many of my favorite web apps (anywhere.fm, splashup) controlled by the same company that's responsible for Acrobat is scary. ==== Oops, That's Just a Template! // pic (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/625vp/comments/c02lm1v The other one I've seen at least a half a dozen times this year. ==== Dear Reddit, we ALL HATE these "dealnews" ads! All of us. PLEASE get rid of them. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/623wv/comments/c02lhn9 It's all Alexis ==== We didn't start the Fire (2.0) (score: 70) ==== http://reddit.com/info/624oc/comments/c02lfhn > When I quit the tech industry I'm going to open a bar. Shit yeah. That's been our plan since the beginning. ==== Dear Reddit, we ALL HATE these "dealnews" ads! All of us. PLEASE get rid of them. (score: 130) ==== http://reddit.com/info/623wv/comments/c02lbf8 Thank you. ==== Advertisers Snub Facebook: Overstock.com, Coca Cola and Travelocity dumps beacon (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62236/comments/c02l5xt No, I would blame CondeNet. In the specific case of reddit, I'd blame myself. Perhaps it's partly facebook's fault for encouraging it, but it's the parter website's responsibility to manage their customer's data. ==== Advertisers Snub Facebook: Overstock.com, Coca Cola and Travelocity dumps beacon (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62236/comments/c02l5wm Even if there was a contract that stipulates the partner site must participate (there wasn't), it's still the partner site's fault for selling their users out in that manner. > Is or was? Both, I presume. I didn't implement it on reddit because we didn't get the authentication ID before all this blew up. Our plan for implementing it was to make a user preference that said something along the lines of, "send my actions to facebook." ==== Advertisers Snub Facebook: Overstock.com, Coca Cola and Travelocity dumps beacon (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62236/comments/c02l5vy Facebook didn't hold a gun to Coca-Cola's head and say, "send us info every time your users do something." Coca-Cola sent that info and should be taking the blame. ==== Advertisers Snub Facebook: Overstock.com, Coca Cola and Travelocity dumps beacon (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62236/comments/c02l5v4 > Umm. Wasn't his point that they stopped using Beacon for this very reason? They could have just as easily made Beacon opt-in on their own website, which is what they should have done from the start. > It's pretty clear by now that Facebook didn't tell their "partners" (nor their users) how this actually worked; from the linked NYT article: That's bogus. CondeNet was one of the original partners and I have a copy of the developer docs. It's obvious the the way it's designed to work. If it wasn't obvious from the docs, it's should become clear the instant the website actually tests it. ==== Advertisers Snub Facebook: Overstock.com, Coca Cola and Travelocity dumps beacon (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62236/comments/c02l5o2 My point is that it's not really deceptive at all. Overstock should ask their users first, after which the users should expect to see the dialogs. The creepy facebook dialogs only start appearing after the website decides to publish their users' actions. ==== Advertisers Snub Facebook: Overstock.com, Coca Cola and Travelocity dumps beacon (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62236/comments/c02l5ml Overstock initiates the request, not facebook, so it should be Overstock that decides whether they tell facebook what their users are doing. ==== Advertisers Snub Facebook: Overstock.com, Coca Cola and Travelocity dumps beacon (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62236/comments/c02l5kx > "We are big fans of letting Overstock customers notify their friends of things they've bought on Overstock, but only if they intend to" Duh. So don't send facebook your users' personal data unless they give you permission to do so. I really don't feel facebook was in the wrong here. ==== Erasing your HardDrive with Static (photo) (score: 1) ==== http://netsec.reddit.com/info/61rr3/comments/c02l38j blah ==== Erasing your HardDrive with Static (photo) (score: 1) ==== http://netsec.reddit.com/info/61rr3/comments/c02l38h test ==== Modern Metal Gear series plot summed up in one paragraph (score: 3) ==== http://gaming.reddit.com/info/620zu/comments/c02l2pe What a horrible list. At least they put Civ II near the top. ==== Modern Metal Gear series plot summed up in one paragraph (score: 3) ==== http://gaming.reddit.com/info/620zu/comments/c02l2c3 I haven't played metal gear since the first installment of metal gear solid when I found I could make an entire brigade of enemy soldiers chase my footprints around and around a tree in the snow. It was like they were chasing their own proverbial tails. ==== ASK REDDIT: did the comment database go down? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61x4t/comments/c02kpx5 Check the sort/time options on the right. ==== ASK REDDIT: did the comment database go down? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61x4t/comments/c02kpwg what do you mean? ==== These 26 user accounts belong to a spam gang that's using reddit as their private money cow. (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61pnv/comments/c02k39z Is search broken for you? ==== How I (color blind person) see the world! (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61mgc/comments/c02jviq No. This is how a color blind person sees a stupid circle with a 7 in it. Every time I click this link I expect to see a picture of a landscape or a busy city street modified to seem as though it was being view by someone who was color blind. Alas, it's just those same stupid circles again. EDIT: more like this: before and after ==== PC Gaming Is For Fools, But I Still Love It (score: 5) ==== http://gaming.reddit.com/info/6119n/comments/c02i3v5 I shared this view for a long time. When Goldeneye came out, I poo-pooed it as a lame imitation of what I had been doing on computers for years. I resented gamers (and the console industry in general) who heralded Goldeneye as a genre-defining game. I remember having the exact same feelings again a few years later when Halo came out. This was my first year of college. It wasn't until my last year of college that I realized what a mistake my attitude had been. I started thinking of console FPS's an entirely different genre and finally began joining my roommates in games of Halo CTF. Unfortunately, since I hadn't played the game for the last four years, I sucked. ==== Man uses Wii calendar to catch cheating wife (score: 19) ==== http://gaming.reddit.com/info/611i2/comments/c02i2s9 I imagine they also played with his wii. ==== I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied... he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/60xx4/comments/c02htk4 but perhaps of interest to the community that reads programming. ==== Reddit: Negative Reddit Rankings? When did this happen? (score: 41) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60tx7/comments/c02hhnp I suppose we could fix it, but we always found it amusing. ==== [+] [-] FTW! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60op5/comments/c02h73s If you have a better suggestion, fire away. Better yet, send a screenshot. ==== [+] [-] FTW! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60op5/comments/c02h73d Nah, we could have done this just fine with the tables. We are phasing out the tables though. There are still a few, but their days are numbered. ==== [+] [-] FTW! (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60op5/comments/c02h72v You can set a user preference to disable the auto-collapsing if that's what you'd prefer. ==== [+] [-] FTW! (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60op5/comments/c02h72d The bigger save is rendering time. The more comments, the longer it takes to compute and draw. There is an "all" link that appears near the sort options on longer comment threads that you can click to load all of the comments. There is also a new user preference for you to set how many comments you'd like loaded by default. ==== [+] [-] FTW! (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60op5/comments/c02h71n Set the "don't show me comments" preference to blank. Then set the "display this many comments" preference to 500. That should get you what you want. ==== [+] [-] FTW! (score: 46) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60op5/comments/c02h3l9 Weird. Will check. UPDATE: Our favorite over-qualified physicist (Chris) fixed the issue. ==== Onion: This Is The Point In The Blow Job Where I Have To Be Careful What I Say (score: 49) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60n7s/comments/c02h1gx If I were to accurately imitate Roomba, I would first detach my backside and shit all over the walls, then I would eat my headphones, head to the bathroom, shut the door on myself and moan "wah-wah" until someone came home and let me out. ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c02gvev Short answer: We have a list of deadlines we're trying to meet. I had hoped to sneak tagging in, but it's getting close to the end of the year and we want to finish the bigger projects we're working on. ==== Happy Birthday Steve! [Vote up to wish the co-founder of Reddit (spez) a Happy Birthday!] (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60fdq/comments/c02ggfa Alexis and I just had a good laugh at everything here. Thank you all! Tomorrow please resume flaming me as usual and keep on doing what you do best. ==== Happy Birthday Steve! [Vote up to wish the co-founder of Reddit (spez) a Happy Birthday!] (score: 235) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60fdq/comments/c02gcxg Sweet, thanks! I guess I should hurry up and finish my facebook app that makes every day my birthday. ==== WTF Reddit? Don't become one of those lame sites with the "fake window" ads. It's cheap, It's deceitful. And honestly, you're above it. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/609aa/comments/c02fyuh Good point. I'll ask about it next week. ==== WTF Reddit? Don't become one of those lame sites with the "fake window" ads. It's cheap, It's deceitful. And honestly, you're above it. (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/609aa/comments/c02fxbi Like AdBlock? I'm not against it, and we wouldn't go out of our way to block it. I don't use it myself, though. ==== WTF Reddit? Don't become one of those lame sites with the "fake window" ads. It's cheap, It's deceitful. And honestly, you're above it. (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/609aa/comments/c02fx1g That entire network has been shut off for the time being. ==== WTF Reddit? Don't become one of those lame sites with the "fake window" ads. It's cheap, It's deceitful. And honestly, you're above it. (score: 222) ==== http://reddit.com/info/609aa/comments/c02fumx I saw it earlier today and complained. It should go away soon. ==== Radiohead Responds to Download Stats: Says They’re False (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/606nt/comments/c02fqav I've said it before, and I'll say it again: comScore has never measured anything accurately in the history of the Internet. ==== Vote up if you still agree "load more comments" stinks; breaks the flow of conversation and hides comments that are often quite good (reddit.com) (score: 52) ==== http://reddit.com/info/602q3/comments/c02f3qb Yes, that's worth doing. In this particular case I was discussing the issue in the comment threads a couple weeks ago. I should have mentioned something on the blog. To repeat: yes, I agree the comment system is not great at the moment. We wanted to give it some time to see how it would work out, and we are certainly going to change it now that we see how it works in practice. However, there are other more important issues at the moment we need to address first. ==== Vote up if you still agree "load more comments" stinks; breaks the flow of conversation and hides comments that are often quite good (reddit.com) (score: 160) ==== http://reddit.com/info/602q3/comments/c02f3lt Your emails are hardly constructive, and we don't respond to emails that treat us with complete disrespect. I've stated publicly numerous times that we're working on better solutions for the issue at the moment, and we'll put them up when they're ready. ==== Reddit is getting real boring real fast... the same story remains #1 the entire day. Do something or you will lose a lot of support. (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6006h/comments/c02eujt We can tweak things, but it's not something we rush into. It should be better in a day or so. ==== Radiohead netted $2.7 million from downloads, and will keep almost every penny -- and thes still get to sell CDs (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5zyhf/comments/c02eevj To be fair, comScore hasn't ever measured anything accurately for the entire history of the Internet. ==== Dear Reddit: Can we get some new articles please? (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5zx2d/comments/c02e6vl We can adjust the algorithm to churn things up a little. We have do to this from time to time as traffic increases. ==== REDDIT: If I have to log in ONE more time.... (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ztzc/comments/c02dryj I use Safari myself, and have noticed it's a little flakey from time to time, but worked a moment ago when I retested it. The next time it happens, try reloading the page (without logging in) and let me know how it goes. ==== REDDIT: If I have to log in ONE more time.... (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ztzc/comments/c02dngr It seems to be working for me. What browser are you using? ==== Python Interview Questions (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/5zgsq/comments/c02cclm Ok, fix the benchmark and let me know how it changes. ==== Python Interview Questions (score: 18) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/5zgsq/comments/c02c97h http://www.skymind.com/~ocrow/python_string/stest.py replace "import timing" with "import time" for python2.5. Results may vary. They were all pretty close for me. The difference between 2.3 and 2.4 is striking. ==== Python Interview Questions (score: 18) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/5zgsq/comments/c02c90o > string building...do they use "+=" or do they build a list and use .join() to recombine them efficiently fun fact: += is the fastest way to build strings in python 2.5. ==== Dear Reddit: Can you please retain the "read" status on links? Links I've already read are turning blue again within 10 minutes. (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ze3a/comments/c02c5fe I should be fixed now. It was fixed before, but I accidently broke it again. Personally I use the bookmarklets and couldn't live without them. ==== Dear Reddit: Can you please retain the "read" status on links? Links I've already read are turning blue again within 10 minutes. (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ze3a/comments/c02c5f6 I think you're insane, but if happens again, let me know again. ==== Dear Reddit: Can you please retain the "read" status on links? Links I've already read are turning blue again within 10 minutes. (score: 34) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ze3a/comments/c02c42u I turned it off for the moment because it was giving us errors in IE. I will enable again as soon as we have it working in the major browsers. ==== Optimizing Reddit: move reallystatic.reddit.com to reallystaticreddit.com - no more cookies = bandwidth saved, proxies helping (score: 7) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/5zap3/comments/c02bvo5 Yes, I realized that shortly after my comment, and have been wondering who voted me up. ==== Grown-up Fig Cookies (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5zbk6/comments/c02bvlz test ==== Optimizing Reddit: move reallystatic.reddit.com to reallystaticreddit.com - no more cookies = bandwidth saved, proxies helping (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/5zap3/comments/c02buhj It probably takes longer to resolve the name than it does to send the headers. ==== Bugs subreddit needs its own customized alien now that the workin progress label has been removed (score: 3) ==== http://bugs.reddit.com/info/5zaqf/comments/c02btgf test ==== Dear Reddit: In Opera, when opening an article in a new tab two tabs are created. Please fix this bug. (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5z3zs/comments/c02basg Should be better now. ==== Now that I'm reading the story: Holy shit! (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yxld/comments/c02ayy3 The issue was that memcached doesn't deal with negative numbers. It should be fixed now though. ==== Reddit, will the orange link numbers return? They used to indicate that the link had reached #1 at some point, and it was an easy way to catch up. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yw9v/comments/c02ayb8 Well, I just found a more important bug, but this is next on my todo list after that. ==== Dear Reddit: I'm 17 years old and want to go to college to get laid. What advice can you give me? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yyub/comments/c02awlu Stop reading reddit and go learn how to sing/dance/play guitar. ==== Reddit, will the orange link numbers return? They used to indicate that the link had reached #1 at some point, and it was an easy way to catch up. (score: 29) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yw9v/comments/c02asbd Yes, should be back today. ==== REDDIT: Are some submissions being automatically upmodded? Submissions I have not voted up are appearing as if I did. Anyone else? (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yve8/comments/c02amu3 Well if it was really a conspiracy, I'd be in on it, so you probably shouldn't listen to anything I say. ==== My upvotes for submissions are changing to downvotes (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yvep/comments/c02amsi It was a display bug. The votes were being counted properly, just not being displayed properly. It should be better now. ==== REDDIT: Are some submissions being automatically upmodded? Submissions I have not voted up are appearing as if I did. Anyone else? (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yve8/comments/c02ampx Probably a caching bug, checking... edit: should be fixed. sorry about that. edit2: still some issues, apparently, and we're figuring it out. ==== Ask Reddit: Why do the articles sometimes open in a new tab, and sometime in the same tab? (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yqx9/comments/c02ac2w It's a caching bug. That particular caching is turned off at the moment, so it should be fine now. Let's face it, unlike most redditors, we make mistakes while trying new things and couldn't code our way out of a while loop. ==== Dear Reddit: Add a link to the story when giving the "that link has already been submitted" error on the submission page. (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ypx7/comments/c02a9n6 Good call. We'll add it to our list. ==== reddit status update (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfqc/comments/c029kv4 > Just allow users to unfold subtrees. Entire subtrees are not collapsed, so the UI wouldn't make sense. Collapsing/uncollapsing entire trees is a different issue, and actually relatively simple to add. > but the problem here is that comments with low scores include all new comments To an extent, but only when the sort is "top." New comments are hotter than old comments, and hot is the default sort. ==== reddit status update (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfqc/comments/c029kt8 Should be better. Had to fix it to reply to you. ==== reddit status update (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfqc/comments/c029k8t Fixed. ==== reddit status update (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfqc/comments/c029k2g Depends on the sort option (on the right). The default is "hot". ==== reddit status update (score: 21) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfqc/comments/c029k28 Fair enough. We'll keep thinking about it. ==== Ann Coulter gets hacked: "I've been participating in a charade for nearly eleven years, now. You have all been a part of a sick joke that I began considering shortly after first getting on the air." (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yf4l/comments/c029ifh Seriously, I'm trying, I even have blogger open. ==== Ann Coulter gets hacked: "I've been participating in a charade for nearly eleven years, now. You have all been a part of a sick joke that I began considering shortly after first getting on the air." (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yf4l/comments/c029icb I'm working on that one as we speak. ==== Ann Coulter gets hacked: "I've been participating in a charade for nearly eleven years, now. You have all been a part of a sick joke that I began considering shortly after first getting on the air." (score: 40) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yf4l/comments/c029i8r It was in response to this ==== If you mouse-over a comment in this story, the story is modded up. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfc0/comments/c029i69 I know. I'm going to write a blog post about it when I get a chance. ==== If you mouse-over a comment in this story, the story is modded up. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfc0/comments/c029i41 Yeah, I understand that issue. It's not as big a priority as the injection stuff, and some other bugs at the moment though. I will get to it as soon as I can though. ==== If you mouse-over a comment in this story, the story is modded up. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfc0/comments/c029i2d That I'm not sure about at the moment, but will look into. If you find another injection hole, please let me know so I have a chance to fix it. ==== If you mouse-over a comment in this story, the story is modded up. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfc0/comments/c029i1p to be fair, this was an issue in old reddit as well, but nobody ever noticed. ==== Ann Coulter gets hacked: "I've been participating in a charade for nearly eleven years, now. You have all been a part of a sick joke that I began considering shortly after first getting on the air." (score: 126) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yf4l/comments/c029hyc PS - I'm a man. ==== Reddit, Please Fix: New Site Doesn't Remember Login Info (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yc7k/comments/c029hq2 Not short on cash, short on time. ==== New reddit broken for text-only browsers :-( (score: 52) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/5yeg3/comments/c029hh5 It's entirely fixable, so hang in there a few, we'll get to it. edit: should be better, thanks chris. ==== Reddit, Please Fix: New Site Doesn't Remember Login Info (score: 35) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yc7k/comments/c029dpp Should be better now. ==== Ask reddit: Is this the New Reddit? If so what are the changes? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ybb9/comments/c029br3 I fixed it. It'll update in a little while when we push out more updates. ==== Ask reddit: Is this the New Reddit? If so what are the changes? (score: 29) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ybb9/comments/c029a1g Yes, we forgot this time. ==== Ask reddit: Is this the New Reddit? If so what are the changes? (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ybb9/comments/c029a0n nah, putting them here is easier for me, atm. ==== Ask reddit: Is this the New Reddit? If so what are the changes? (score: 18) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ybb9/comments/c0299zp We didn't mess with anything specifically in that department. Obviously I can't endorse Adblock, but we don't go out of our way to stop it or anything like that. ==== Ask reddit: Is this the New Reddit? If so what are the changes? (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ybb9/comments/c0299yu good call ==== Ask reddit: Is this the New Reddit? If so what are the changes? (score: 159) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ybb9/comments/c0299ey There aren't many changes, we're just trying to get things stable first. Give us a little bit to get the kinks out. ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c2zxnk Yeah we'll keep you in the loop as we proceed. ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c2zxdw Not immediately available, no, but shortly thereafter, yes. ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c2zx5x We are inches away. If I said when we planned to launch, no one would believe me at this point. Things are mostly the same, although the comment system is much improved. ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c2zuev Ignoring would have been keeping features.reddit around. Instead, since we don't use it, I told people we don't use it, and I disabled it. ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c2zts9 > Maybe 10 minutes coding and 10 minutes testing. Keep dreaming. ==== The new and improved Reddit is scheduled to launch today! (score: 25) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2yma1/comments/c2yps3 Please don't jinx it. It'll happen late tonight, probably. ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c2y1mg Nobody reads features.reddit. ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: 42) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c2y1lq We hid the features subreddits because we don't read it. It's mostly a spam honey-pot at this point. Between the emails, front-page stories like this, rewriting (launching on Wednesday, btw), we have plenty on our plates. ==== The Reddit "0-Point Ban" - is this something that actually happens? (score: 23) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xemx/comments/c2xhqk Memed. ==== The Reddit "0-Point Ban" - is this something that actually happens? (score: 53) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xemx/comments/c2xhpx FAQ: 1) Can I be automatically blocked because someone is reporting everything I submit? No, reporting is just a useful tool we use internally. There is always a human in the loop. 2) I appear to be blocked, what do I do? Send us an email, we'll fix it right away. 3) I'm a spammer, but I'm a really nice guy and just sent you a very polite email. Fuck you. You're attempting to steal from us at the expense of our users. We'll probably lie to you and tell you it's fixed. Then we'll notify your ISP. 4) I'm a long-time user, but I was still blocked for some reason. I suspect it's because I conveyed a political view you disagree with. WTF?!? We get a ton of spam, and we make mistakes. Send us an email and we'll clear it up. We're only after spam, nothing more. The only reason we would block someone who wasn't spamming was because they were harassing other users to an extreme degree. Even in that situation we try to give the offending user a warning and a second chance. ==== The Reddit "0-Point Ban" - is this something that actually happens? (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xemx/comments/c2xhg6 I did, and it should be better now. Alexis should have sent you an email as well. ==== The Reddit "0-Point Ban" - is this something that actually happens? (score: 39) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xemx/comments/c2xhdj That would be a big mistake, since you're one of the handful of users I actually recognize. I'll certainly look into it. ==== Remember that OTHER famous whole-site rewrite? (score: 17) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2tf5l/comments/c2thbo What can I say? We've been "one day away" for a while now. It's close; we're excited about it; we'll switch as soon as we can. ==== xkcd: "The Hardest Logic Puzzle in the World" (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2tg1g/comments/c2than No it doesn't. After the Guru speaks, each person has a new piece of critical information: maybe the Guru was talking about me. It doesn't matter what color the Guru names. ==== xkcd: "The Hardest Logic Puzzle in the World" (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2tg1g/comments/c2tgy4 Before the Guru speaks, each person doesn't have any information about themselves, preventing them from deducing anything about their own eye color. Once the Guru speaks, each person knows there is a possibility the Guru was talking about himself. ==== Ask Reddit: Has the algorithm for the "new" page changed? If so, please change it back! (see comments for details) (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2seqg/comments/c2si1i It was broken. I didn't notice right away because I usually look at "all" It should be back to normal now. ==== Come on reddit! Valid (X)HTML please! (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2s8be/comments/c2sfp5 > there really is no point in claiming XHTML Wrong. Using the strict doctype yields the most consistent cross-browser rendering, which is all we really care about. ==== Reddit's new login/information/advertisement width sucks [pic] (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qu1y/comments/c2qx84 It has been like this, but it's even worse now. Also, I haven't been working in the old codebase much, but now I have minions you do it for me. Muahaha. ==== Reddit's new login/information/advertisement width sucks [pic] (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qu1y/comments/c2qwzo We're cleaning it up, should be better this afternoon. edit: should be better now ==== blog.reddit: now, with rounded corners! (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qh6n/comments/c2qkpc When we start messing around with the link template, we'll definitely have an option for the current view, or make it opt-in. ==== blog.reddit: now, with rounded corners! (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qh6n/comments/c2qijj har. ==== blog.reddit: now, with rounded corners! 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I was on a call with someone (relatively important), and I had to end it because I was left completely speechless. ==== Reddit experiment take two: Let's get this post to #25 and then see how long we can keep it at exactly at #25. [My comment explains why I want to do this] (score: 267) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2phxe/comments/c2pjux Every time it hits 25 I'm going to change the algorithm just to fuck with you all. ==== We all complain about the blog spamming and the decline in quality submissions, but there is a simple solution. REDDIT: Fix the New page so that a single downvote doesn't doom a submission to obscurity. Put an end to the Gaming of Reddit! (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2o7xf/comments/c2ob5q That's an idea that comes up from time to time. I really like it. I think that combined with showing random stories on the front page (using the same algorithm) will go a long way to help. ==== Reddit is Hiring (non-linkjacked) (score: 13) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2o7gp/comments/c2o9gg At the moment galcon, BrassHats, and BZFlag. ==== Reddit is Hiring (non-linkjacked) (score: 18) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2o7gp/comments/c2o92e > Would this be a requirement if reddit is not part of Conde Nast? Yes. Of course it's not a strict requirement, but there is an extremely high correlation between the type of people I'd love to get working with us and having completed an engineering program. ==== Reddit is Hiring (non-linkjacked) (score: 10) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2o7gp/comments/c2o91v > For example, would the reddit folks hire a 50 year old enterprise architect that designed web systems for a major bank that graduated from MIT. I bet he is qualified, but will he fit in? It'd certainly be worth a try I hope. ==== We all complain about the blog spamming and the decline in quality submissions, but there is a simple solution. REDDIT: Fix the New page so that a single downvote doesn't doom a submission to obscurity. Put an end to the Gaming of Reddit! (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2o7xf/comments/c2o8fs We're hiring! Or just shoot me an email to jobs @ reddit. ==== We all complain about the blog spamming and the decline in quality submissions, but there is a simple solution. REDDIT: Fix the New page so that a single downvote doesn't doom a submission to obscurity. Put an end to the Gaming of Reddit! (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2o7xf/comments/c2o82i There are a number of factors, up-votes being an important one. ==== We all complain about the blog spamming and the decline in quality submissions, but there is a simple solution. REDDIT: Fix the New page so that a single downvote doesn't doom a submission to obscurity. Put an end to the Gaming of Reddit! (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2o7xf/comments/c2o805 The rising page does cycle stories back in, but it's not perfect. In the near future-ish, once we get passed the relaunch, I think we're going to start showing new links on the front page somewhere. ==== We all complain about the blog spamming and the decline in quality submissions, but there is a simple solution. REDDIT: Fix the New page so that a single downvote doesn't doom a submission to obscurity. Put an end to the Gaming of Reddit! (score: 25) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2o7xf/comments/c2o7xq Downvotes haven't affected the new page in ages. ==== EU gives up on 'metric Britain' (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2o3xc/comments/c2o7na What about the other 500 millihairs? ==== uh, it's a survey about reddit, but it did the image, not the actual ad? (score: 7) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/2mlan/comments/c2nitx I didn't even finish it myself. ==== He Served at the NSA for 46 years - when he died he left his fortune (over a million dollars) to a woman he secretly evesdroped/admired the entire time. She had no idea who he was, or that a mystery NSA spook had been recording her phone conversations for decades. (score: 23) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2mv6z/comments/c2mw2h reddit looks good in purple. ==== Slashdot review of the new Erlang book (score: 15) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2m3z7/comments/c2m5tr I have a PDF copy of this book. If you're interested in learning Erlang, this book is worth getting because there are tons of meaty examples. In this case, you can be sure the author's style is worth learning from because he invented the language. My only complaint is that he never wrote the example chapter that writes an OTP web server. It was in the table of contents for a while, but I guess he cut it. ==== dear reddit gods: please remove the linked space at the end of the "comment " link - it drives the OCD people here NUTS (score: 70) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2knbi/comments/c2kp3p It's actually fixed on the beta site, which be launching in [not telling you]. ==== Ask Reddit: Why do you allow submissions to be deleted? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2k6d6/comments/c2k7o7 That's not what happens now. What happens now is that the link basically disappears from everywhere, causing the problems described in this thread. I think the solution I describe above will solve most of the issues, though. ==== Ask Reddit: Why do you allow submissions to be deleted? (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2k6d6/comments/c2k6sa The way I had planned on fixing this was to make delete remove the article from listings and allow the url to be resubmitted, but not break permalinks. If this were the case yesterday, your comments wouldn't have gone anywhere, and you would have still been able to comment on the link. The link would not appear on the front page anymore, though. ==== Ask Reddit: Why do you allow submissions to be deleted? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2k6d6/comments/c2k6dn Now's your time to convince me of something better as I'm about to write delete for the new system... ==== The whole Reddit crew at Chris' wedding [pic] (score: 56) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jm4p/comments/c2jn7k Even his parents were disappointed. ==== Steve Huffman From reddit and Jay Adelson From digg Appearing on the Same Panel Tonight (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2i0ib/comments/c2iflb They definitely did, though I don't know where it is. I'll post a link to it if I come across it. It's too bad the sound system wasn't working quite right last night when you were on. ==== Steve Huffman From reddit and Jay Adelson From digg Appearing on the Same Panel Tonight (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2i0ib/comments/c2i0t4 I have to describe the reddit community at some point. If anyone has something better than "gnome engineers," let me know. ==== Steve Huffman From reddit and Jay Adelson From digg Appearing on the Same Panel Tonight (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2i0ib/comments/c2i0lc I'm pretty sure a video is going to be posted afterwards. ==== Spore Is Completed (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2hqrv/comments/c2hu1m What I was really hoping they would do is allow multiple humans to play at the same time. While it's cool to play against organisms created by other humans, it would be fantastic to play against organisms that are also controlled by their creator. ==== it's slow... it's unstable... it's... beta! (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2h8kd/comments/c2hhbt Probably. Considering how much I've learned over the last couple of years that I didn't know when we began reddit, I think it'll be worth it. ==== Can we have the beta site with a different dominant color like say green vs, the blue of the current reddit just to make it eaiser to see which system we are on? (score: 8) ==== http://bugs.reddit.com/info/2hd1g/comments/c2he8a good idea ==== it's slow... it's unstable... it's... beta! (score: 20) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2h8kd/comments/c2he0s We're not starting from the same codebase. I did read Joel very earnestly, but I disregarded his wisdom and did what we needed to do. ==== Markdown bugs (score: 2) ==== http://bugs.reddit.com/info/2h99o/comments/c2hdk2 Ah, ok. Sounds good in principle. We're pretty swamped at the moment, but we can give it a whirl. ==== Markdown bugs (score: 3) ==== http://bugs.reddit.com/info/2h99o/comments/c2hckm Probably never. What more do you want? ==== it's slow... it's unstable... it's... beta! (score: 23) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2h8kd/comments/c2hax4 Still displaying data in tabular format as well. ==== it's slow... it's unstable... it's... beta! (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2h8kd/comments/c2hawz I had read that some time ago, and it did enter my mind many times, as did all the warnings about "second-system syndrome" given in college. That's the main reason we're trying to stay diligent about catching up to where we were before adding too many new things. ==== it's slow... it's unstable... it's... beta! (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2h8kd/comments/c2h9q2 What took so long is we ended up rewriting practically everything. This wasn't the plan to begin with, but the old code was essentially two years of hacks and cludges. The new version is much cleaner, and the new back-end is much more malleable. The idea is that once we get caught up with ourselves, the actual new stuff will come pretty quickly. ==== it's slow... it's unstable... it's... beta! (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2h8kd/comments/c2h93l Doing anything in particular when it broke? ==== OK Reddit. I wanted to find the comments for this link so I pasted the EXACT title into the search bar. WHY doesn't it appear ANYWHERE in the results?? Search is a JOKE, just remove it.... (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gps6/comments/c2gu5y > In most search engines, you can control the weight of metadata match vs. freshness boost. This has been the biggest issue in the current one we have (obviously). We are moving to lucene, hopefully it will help. ==== OK Reddit. I wanted to find the comments for this link so I pasted the EXACT title into the search bar. WHY doesn't it appear ANYWHERE in the results?? Search is a JOKE, just remove it.... (score: 27) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gps6/comments/c2gr15 You can sarcastically wonder all you like, but there is a real reason. Date isn't relevant on google nearly as much as it is on reddit. Much of the time, users on reddit are searching for something they just saw, which you cannot do on google, but is important to us. Unfortunately, sorting by date sacrifices relevance. One thing that would help searching on reddit is if we made the interface better, or documented it better. For example, you can prepend your queries with url: to search within the url. Also, you can use boolean operations with the queries as well if they're capitalized: e.g. AND, OR (but OR is the operation). ==== OK Reddit. I wanted to find the comments for this link so I pasted the EXACT title into the search bar. WHY doesn't it appear ANYWHERE in the results?? Search is a JOKE, just remove it.... (score: 34) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gps6/comments/c2gqu3 Sort by rank. It works fine. Sometimes "new" is the most relevant sort, sometimes it's "rank." It just happens that typically, "new" is the search that most often returns the results users are looking for, which is why it's the default. ==== ASK REDDIT: What kind of hardware runs reddit? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gdcv/comments/c2gjkf For the app servers and the db: quad-xeon, 8 gigs, 6 disks (thanks, CondeNast). For the others (search, recommendations, caching), vanilla Intel boxes. ==== ASK REDDIT: What kind of hardware runs reddit? (score: 73) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gdcv/comments/c2geky Not a whole lot has changed: web server 2 application servers 1 primary db 1 slave db (stats/backup/vacuuming) 1 search server 1 recommendation server ==== CNN decides to air 'Cheney vs Cheney' video, contacts the VP office (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2f2m2/comments/c2f586 gosh i love sheeple ==== Hey Reddit: After 8+ hours on the site, I finally got a "next" at the bottom of my HOT page! (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2exh7/comments/c2exht Huh? ==== Amateur Programming Error Exposes Facebook Code (score: 29) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2etph/comments/c2evt5 It was decoy source to throw you off the scent. ==== As Proggit: how'd you get started (programming)? (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2d8t6/comments/c2dfso Yup. Ordered one right after I wrote that. ==== As Proggit: how'd you get started (programming)? (score: 10) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2d8t6/comments/c2d9ge I didn't understand it very well then either, but looking back on it, that was some neat stuff. If only he had demonstrated how to overflow a buffer... ==== As Proggit: how'd you get started (programming)? (score: 14) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2d8t6/comments/c2d973 GWBasic with my dad's had old BASIC hobby books when I was about 8. To this day, one of my favorite programming books of all time is "The Super Computer Snooper." I wish I still had a copy. It was all in BASIC, and was filled with examples that used PEEK and POKE to manipulate memory, including a program that rewrote itself (pretty cool for BASIC). ==== blog.reddit: We've Created a Reddit for Politics (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngs/comments/c2cvsd It'll be done when it's done, Your Highness. ==== blog.reddit: We've Created a Reddit for Politics (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngs/comments/c2csyj As long as I can convince the majority there really isn't a conspiracy everything will go according to plan. ==== politics.reddit.com (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngn/comments/c2cs2z It's possible to do all of that, yes. Let's let things settle down for a couple days first though and see how things are users. I disagree that tags would solve all of what you mention, but it would be nice if I were wrong. ==== blog.reddit: We've Created a Reddit for Politics (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngs/comments/c2crw5 Yes, it's going to take a week or two of testing (with real users) I'm sure. ==== blog.reddit: We've Created a Reddit for Politics (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngs/comments/c2crci > I think you're full of shit. Your new corporate masters want to stifle real political debate, you know, the kind that comes from us mere mortals, so the game now is to work at marginalizing our voice the best you can. Apparently you've never met our corporate masters. They're actually pretty cool. It was my doing anyway. > After all, if there were truly a backlash against politics, your system of user moderation would accommodate that and self-correct. It's easier to ask users to go out of their way for something they want than it is for something they want to avoid. ==== blog.reddit: We've Created a Reddit for Politics (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngs/comments/c2cqt4 It's up to you all to use it, yes. ==== blog.reddit: We've Created a Reddit for Politics (score: 18) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngs/comments/c2co7g That's pretty much been our thinking for quite a while. Programming and science used to be popular topics on the front page, but at some point they basically vanished. We created those reddits because we still had dedicated users for those topics. With politics, the story has been basically the opposite, and there have been a number of backlashes against it, so we made the new politics reddit and we'll see what happens. ==== politics.reddit.com (score: 21) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngn/comments/c2cno6 You can report whatever you like, but we really only use it to weed out spam. ==== politics.reddit.com (score: 85) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngn/comments/c2cnlc The thought did cross our minds. ==== politics.reddit.com (score: 126) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngn/comments/c2cnhv Plus, I submitted the link itself. Choo-Choo! Welcome to the karma train! ==== ehm.. reddit... WTF? (score: 49) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2c6jb/comments/c2c78c They were linked. Lipstick was just a subreddit until a little while ago when we moved datacenters and used lipstick as a test for the move. ==== REDDIT: When I submit a comment, do not take me to "that comments thread". That is useless. Just take me back to where I was and let me continue what I was doing. What does everyone think of that? (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2aw9f/comments/c2b3nv It's annoying, yes. I'm not going to get into why it's this way because it'll be fixed in a little while anyway. ==== [Reddit] Where do articles go when they disappear suddenly? (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2a63w/comments/c2a658 It's usually a bug. If you link the actual link I can tell you for sure. ==== blog.reddit: new reddit on the horizon (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29qac/comments/c29uau Perhaps it came automatically from the link's ? ==== blog.reddit: new reddit on the horizon (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29qac/comments/c29tkw no ==== blog.reddit: new reddit on the horizon (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29qac/comments/c29t0e The stats page should be working right now. No? ==== blog.reddit: new reddit on the horizon (score: 28) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29qac/comments/c29syb Too bad. Studies have shown user happiness is positively correlated to number of gradients. ==== blog.reddit: new reddit on the horizon (score: 36) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29qac/comments/c29spw I did, actually, but I intentionally left it unspecified so as to not rule out "submitting good content." ==== blog.reddit: new reddit on the horizon (score: 66) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29qac/comments/c29rpx still python ==== blog.reddit: new reddit on the horizon (score: 54) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29qac/comments/c29r31 At first, it should be an almost-exact copy. Once things are stable, we'll start adding the new features. Around a similar time, parts of the interface will be updated. However, the major design elements (simplicity and content-first) will remain. ==== CmdrTaco goes off on Alexa (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/28s3w/comments/c290lc The slope of quantcasts graph is accurate, but the numbers are off by about a factor of 10. ==== CmdrTaco goes off on Alexa (score: 32) ==== http://reddit.com/info/28s3w/comments/c28tqm I know one thing for sure: graphs of our actual traffic and graphs from Alexa look nothing alike. ==== If someone has a way of loading ads after the rest of the page without using an iframe, I'd love to hear it. These google ads stink. (score: 1) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/27hjf/comments/c28qkb Thanks, I'll give it a try. ==== My 5 things I hate about Python (score: 9) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/26och/comments/c26uur My biggest python complaint is the lame interpreter. If I change the definition of an object and reload that definition, I have to re-instantiate all the objects of that type, which really slows things down. In Lisp (and Ruby, I think), I just drop in the new definition and keep on cruising. ==== [Breaking] Rep. KEITH ELLISON (D-MN) SIGNS H. Res. 333 CALLING FOR CHENEY IMPEACHMENT (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/229yv/comments/c26kj4 Nope, we don't do anything like that. It would be a waste of time and a waste of resources. ==== Should reddit go open source so that features get implemented? (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/23k8o/comments/c24cdx It should only be a couple of minutes. Send me a message next time you see the issue (so I know close to what time it happened), and I can see what caused you to be rate limited. ==== Can we just freaking get tags already and let you filter/browse by those? It's the #1 most requested feature on reddit and the #1 story of all time. What's the deal? (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5xsri/comments/c24bix I wish. ==== Can we just freaking get tags already and let you filter/browse by those? It's the #1 most requested feature on reddit and the #1 story of all time. What's the deal? (score: 32) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5xsri/comments/c24b4y We've been trying to work on it for months, but time is unfortunately scarce. We've also been fixing a gazillion other issues at the same time. ==== Suggestion: Can we have filters for posts in prefs? I mean, if I set "Paris Hilton", "George Bush", "Ron Paul"...etc, I will not see topics with headlines containing them (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/23npu/comments/c23r8l touche. ==== Suggestion: Can we have filters for posts in prefs? I mean, if I set "Paris Hilton", "George Bush", "Ron Paul"...etc, I will not see topics with headlines containing them (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/23npu/comments/c23r6g I've never liked the idea of voting on tags. It seems to complicate things beyond the point of being useful. Let's get plain old tags first, and see where to go from there. ==== Suggestion: Can we have filters for posts in prefs? I mean, if I set "Paris Hilton", "George Bush", "Ron Paul"...etc, I will not see topics with headlines containing them (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/23npu/comments/c23ofq Though we are adding tagging to the new system once it debuts, I question whether we'll add negative filtering by tag. For that to work as intended, everyone must tag more-or-less the same way, and everyone must tag honestly, which is not something to rely on. Our observation has been that tagging is primarily a personal tool, and that probably isn't going to change. As for adding an actual filter, if all you wanted was a list of words that we could filter out, that could probably be done fairly painlessly on the old system. ==== Should reddit go open source so that features get implemented? (score: 4) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/23k8o/comments/c23ocp No one would actually leave because of comments, and thanks. ==== Should reddit go open source so that features get implemented? (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/23k8o/comments/c23och > like bugs in markdown more? I thought we had those under control. > no way to filter content you really don't care about We can debate whether this is even possible some other time. ==== Should reddit go open source so that features get implemented? (score: 6) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/23k8o/comments/c23ob5 I agree to an extent, and yes I'm whining, but also working to fix these things. At this point the best we can do is weather the storm of wtf-is-taking-so-long and just try and get our new stuff our the door. It's frustrating as hell, though. ==== Should reddit go open source so that features get implemented? (score: 25) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/23k8o/comments/c23lvh > The founders don't own Reddit anymore. A massive evil media conglomerate does, and we all know how well companies like that innovate. While we got off to a bit of a rocky start, CN is doing their best to stay our of our hair. > The founders are rich and there's very little incentive for them to continue killing themselves over this site. With the exception of posts like this that I take mostly as a slap in the face, my motivation for working on the site continues to be a love of the site. It's as simple as that. > They'll ride out their performance bonuses and try to make the acquisition positive in order to maintain their reputations. You'd only have to spend a day in our office to realize we don't give a shit about the bonuses and just want to work on the site. It's extremely frustrating sometimes, but we're doing the best we can given the circumstances. ==== Should reddit go open source so that features get implemented? (score: 30) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/23k8o/comments/c23luk Can you be more specific regarding the bugs? I've stated time and time again that we're not going to make more subreddits. The plan is to let users create their own, a system we're furiously working on between scaling and fixing bugs. The topic of open-sourcing reddit has come up a few times around here, and it's something we may actually consider seriously in the future. At the moment, however, we're writing a ton of new code and aren't really prepared for such a leap. ==== Should reddit go open source so that features get implemented? (score: 45) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/23k8o/comments/c23lsk Contrary to public opinion, we work our asses off on this site. It's comments like these, however, that make me just want to give up and leave sometimes. ==== "Recommended" Button on Reddit tells me no links have been recommended for me yet, but I've been using reddit everyday for months. What gives? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/238ta/comments/c23csq There you go. Congrats. ==== "Recommended" Button on Reddit tells me no links have been recommended for me yet, but I've been using reddit everyday for months. What gives? (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/238ta/comments/c23ckc We didn't take it down on purpose. We accidently broke it and learned that it was because of an emergency fix we did yesterday. ==== "Recommended" Button on Reddit tells me no links have been recommended for me yet, but I've been using reddit everyday for months. What gives? (score: 21) ==== http://reddit.com/info/238ta/comments/c23b47 To take away from my own argument, only 10% of users submit, so 1% isn't a small number. It's just that the site wasn't loading and we had to do something. Unfortunately, that something accidently broke the recommendations cache. ==== "Recommended" Button on Reddit tells me no links have been recommended for me yet, but I've been using reddit everyday for months. What gives? (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/238ta/comments/c23b2l Honestly, we thought we fixed it this morning. Once this link turned up we found it more broken. What's really not fair is that I broke it, but Chris has to fix it :-/ ==== "Recommended" Button on Reddit tells me no links have been recommended for me yet, but I've been using reddit everyday for months. What gives? (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/238ta/comments/c23ant Your IP probably overlaps with another user's, or potentially a spammer's. We'll have a look and see if we can fix. ==== "Recommended" Button on Reddit tells me no links have been recommended for me yet, but I've been using reddit everyday for months. What gives? (score: 55) ==== http://reddit.com/info/238ta/comments/c23an0 We sacrificed a feature that less than 1% of users use in order to keep the site running yesterday after we got nailed by an unexpected performance issue. Give us all the shit you want, but we'd make the same decision again, even if the company never were bought. Recommendations will be fixed soon enough, and I turned off the ads until they're fixed as well. ==== "Recommended" Button on Reddit tells me no links have been recommended for me yet, but I've been using reddit everyday for months. What gives? (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/238ta/comments/c23ab2 What happens when you try and submit? ==== "Recommended" Button on Reddit tells me no links have been recommended for me yet, but I've been using reddit everyday for months. What gives? (score: 62) ==== http://reddit.com/info/238ta/comments/c23a5u It's broken at the moment. It should be fixed soon. ==== OK OK Reddit I get the point!!!! (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2304v/comments/c2312p so you're that voting bot people are always complaining about... ==== Context Matters [Pic] (score: 25) ==== http://reddit.com/info/22x6n/comments/c22z7u The best I've seen was this plate with the letters "AGINA". ==== Reddit, please can you stop your adverts installing ErrorSafe on my computer please? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/22n09/comments/c22vw6 thanks! ==== XSS/CSRF Hole in Reddit Uncovered - Proof of Concept and Explanation (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/21s4w/comments/c21vsc It should be fixed now. ==== Reddit: Popup on reddit from pc turbo pro and win anti-vir pro, could someone please remove them. I have gotten my reddit experience interrupted twice already today. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/212mr/comments/c21rzf Thanks! What country are you browsing from? Does the popup ever appear when you load http://static.reddit.com/ad.html ? ==== Has reddit been hacked in some way? The popups for "PCTurboPro" people have been seeing are malware (score: 18) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5xvlb/comments/c214u1 That was never removed... genius. ==== Has reddit been hacked in some way? The popups for "PCTurboPro" people have been seeing are malware (score: 21) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5xvlb/comments/c214px > that leads me to believe that even though a reddit link had installed malware on systems without any additional clickthrough or OK from the user, and this had been confirmed, reddit chose to kill the story outright in order to save its reputation. Get your facts right before you start making things up. The submitter of the story deleted it himself once he realized the target page had been infected. ==== Reddit: Popup on reddit from pc turbo pro and win anti-vir pro, could someone please remove them. I have gotten my reddit experience interrupted twice already today. (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/212mr/comments/c214nn There shouldn't be any pop-ups on reddit. If you see one and can find the offending code, please send it to me. ==== Has reddit been hacked in some way? The popups for "PCTurboPro" people have been seeing are malware (score: 25) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5xvlb/comments/c214ly There shouldn't be an popups. If there are, I'll shut ads off, but I'd have to see it for myself. ==== 78 in a 55 zone in Virginia? That'll be $1,250, please. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/20np9/comments/c20po9 Greene County, but close enough. ==== 78 in a 55 zone in Virginia? That'll be $1,250, please. (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/20np9/comments/c20os4 I grew up in Virginia. I once got caught doing 83 in a 55 and spent a day in jail. ==== Zenter: How a six-month-old startup got bought by Google (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/20ag3/comments/c20igp One of my favorite PGisms goes something like, "Why work moderately hard for forty years when you can work extremely hard for two and take the other thirty-eight off?" ==== A smart little experiment to figure out what hosting co's can survive the Reddit / Digg / Slashdot effect... (score: 47) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1zdzt/comments/c1zeze > APlus is actually a fairly shitty company Incidentally, reddit was hosted on aplus machines for the first eight months or so. They are indeed fairly lousy. ==== Click here to log yourself out of reddit (or "CSRF in 4 paragraphs") (score: 8) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1yi2x/comments/c1yirx gah, the last form we didn't fix... ==== blog.reddit: a note on search, and what we're working on (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wu9h/comments/c1x0ln No, xapian. ==== No wonder people keep posting dupes - the search function is terrible (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wsh6/comments/c1wyzz Right. I actually prefer sorting by rank as default, but the majority seem to prefer sorting by date. If I could get a hybrid of the two working, that would be ideal. ==== No wonder people keep posting dupes - the search function is terrible (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wsh6/comments/c1wxgs At this point we have so much on our plate that yes, If you get something on the front page, it will get more attention. ==== blog.reddit: a note on search, and what we're working on (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wu9h/comments/c1wxfs If I mention we're working on feature X, there's a good chance there will be a long discussion on reddit about why feature X is the worst idea in the world, making completing feature X much more difficult. ==== No wonder people keep posting dupes - the search function is terrible (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wsh6/comments/c1wxf5 I actually spent a day after your post attempting to fix the problem. ==== Now that you're fixing the search, spez; how about a fix on the stats page? (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wwcv/comments/c1wxew Both. ==== No wonder people keep posting dupes - the search function is terrible (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wsh6/comments/c1wxdf then why don't you search for "olympics lisa"? ==== No wonder people keep posting dupes - the search function is terrible (score: 18) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wsh6/comments/c1wu7a I just made a quick fix to search. I'll put more details in the blog. ==== Why don't we ban this user? It's done nothing but spam. (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1vcyp/comments/c1vgbs I appointed myself benevolent dictator a long time ago. ==== Why don't we ban this user? It's done nothing but spam. (score: 60) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1vcyp/comments/c1vdap Why would you assume we want to ignore the problem when it's much more likely we've been hiding in the datacenter all day. ==== Common Lisp: Hunchentoot and packages (score: 9) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1uk60/comments/c1uncy FYI: reddit was originally built on Huchentoot, though it was known as TBNL at the time. ==== The Blind Subversion Developer (score: 22) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1ty14/comments/c1tztk What would make them work? ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1ty83 No, when using it to draw the site. And there seems to be a misunderstanding of what the actual issue was. I'm not much concerned with submitted urls being valid so long as there aren't any security issues (there isn't, to my knowledge) since users occasionally figure something legitimately clever to use them for. The issue last night was links in comments allowed javascript to be run in comment links, which don't come from the user directly. ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1ty77 > furthermore django templates are a lot faster than genshi/kid. Yes > The real problem are database connections. And django handles them nicely. It does, but we don't use django's db stuff already, so when we were playing with django it was for url-handling and templates. The fact that it was popular and well-maintained was what drew us in (again). > Mako is that fast because it just does nothing in comparsion with Django/Jinja which ensure that the templates are sandboxed. Yep. I think if we start letting users make their own templates, which will be cool down the road, we'll start exploring sandboxed templates. But for regular old reddit, speed is more important. ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1ty6s Yes, for submitted links. The link-in-comment was a little different, but seems to be fine now. ==== reddit has just been hacked with a major XSS exploit. spez knew about the exploit months ago, but did nothing to fix it. (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tu91/comments/c1tvvi Don't apologize to me. You wrote a sensationalist blog piece with almost no factual information to injure reddit, and by extension, myself. Rather than apologizing, why don't you correct your mistakes? Certainly don't waste your time here. ==== reddit has just been hacked with a major XSS exploit. spez knew about the exploit months ago, but did nothing to fix it. (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tu91/comments/c1tuug I don't care if you're blaming me. What you've written is simply not true. ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1tut5 I don't think so considering it would break squillions of past comments. ==== reddit has just been hacked with a major XSS exploit. spez knew about the exploit months ago, but did nothing to fix it. (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tu91/comments/c1tuqr That's completely false. You're misreporting several aspects of this issue. Obviously if I had know about the issue I would have fixed it immediately, as I'm doing now with the current issue. Furthermore, the issue was only in markdown links, not in link submissions themselves. ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1tuqp alerts in submitted links still don't work (right?). it's javascript embedded in markdown links that are the culprit at the moment. ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1tupt Templates are about a 1/4th the speed of others (e.g. cheetah, mako) if they're preloaded. They're abysmally slow if you do any sort of inheritance because they'll hit disk for every rendering of every template. ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1tumx Thanks. I'll test it out. ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1tuk2 when it comes to websites the two are synonymous ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1tuhe django also has the nifty feature of being slow as shit. ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1tuh5 Yes, fortunately I decided to check the laptop before dinner with my fiance, which I don't get too often these days :-/ ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1tual yes... edit: a little out of context now. ==== Shouldn't The Format Of Submitted URLs Be Checked? (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tt22/comments/c1tu9t > DO NOT ACCEPT JAVASCRIPT ON EVERY TEXT FIELD IN THE SITE. Are you exaggerating, or are there other text fields that are broken? Really, it was a markdown issue we should have filtered out. ==== Digg Banning Users For Not Reading Stories (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1szzi/comments/c1t2xi Yes, but we've tried to ensure the ad-loading pause takes place after the rest of reddit. ==== Reddit, our last hope :-/ Digg Caught Using Secret Moderators to Censor It's Users Over Ron Paul (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1rpyn/comments/c1rro1 or at least load reddit once a day in each of your browsers at home and at work.. ==== Picture: How I feel about Slashdot, Digg, and Reddit (score: 71) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1r0ds/comments/c1r1r7 me too ==== So, are recommended links broken or what? (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1pmca/comments/c1pmd2 Yes, for a little while. ==== Reddit needs a second type of karma for comments - a comment karma (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1pgvh/comments/c1ply6 > 2 years now That's nuts. I can't believe it's been so long. ==== Reddit needs a second type of karma for comments - a comment karma (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1pgvh/comments/c1pi9e At the end of the day, commenting fairly well right now and we don't want to break it. ==== Reddit needs a second type of karma for comments - a comment karma (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1pgvh/comments/c1pi1v Well that's why we didn't make comments count towards karma in the first place. Regardless of what we end up using it for (if it's public at all), it'll definitely be separate from the current submission karma. ==== Reddit needs a second type of karma for comments - a comment karma (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1pgvh/comments/c1phx3 I think so, but we haven't tried in practice yet. ==== Reddit needs a second type of karma for comments - a comment karma (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1pgvh/comments/c1phwj Wait, did something break for you? ==== Reddit needs a second type of karma for comments - a comment karma (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1pgvh/comments/c1ph53 We're actually fairly close. We're smack in the middle of moving datacenters at the moment, but outside of that, getting all this new code online is top priority. ==== Reddit needs a second type of karma for comments - a comment karma (score: 32) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1pgvh/comments/c1ph3l Yes, and it's part of the new system. ==== Reddit down again - this time for a good 3 hours and 45 mins (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ozmx/comments/c1ozn1 More like 1 hour, but yes. A switch broke at the datacenter. ==== So why was Reddit just down? I felt like I just got dumped. (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1oypk/comments/c1oypv we moved some servers. ironically, the one server that shouldn't have caused any issues was the culprit. ==== How to market your website on the cheap, by co-founder of reddit.com (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1oph4/comments/c1opr3 ugh. we need to fire this guy. ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 108) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1oeb1 basically true... ==== Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit (score: 150) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1octb/comments/c1odpo > I'm pretty sure the story of pre-YC reddit is that Steve and Alexis were interviewing by themselves, and almost got rejected, but then came back. Aaron also entered the program separately, trying to found Infogami. He then merged with Reddit in November. WTF, man? Yes, that's what happened. ==== Digg Exodus to Reddit? , Not According to Alexa (Any publicity is good publicity) (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1nlgk/comments/c1nmex > Alexa measures page views not users It measures neither. I don't know what they measure, but none of it is correlated with actual reddit traffic. ==== Ask reddit: Is there something wrong with the new queue? Of the top 25 new links only 8 were posted within the hour. New links are dropping off the new page much too quickly. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ndq0/comments/c1ndxy That happens occasionally, and it's a bug. Basically when a story hits #1, we update it to reflect that it hit #1, and sometimes it breaks for a few moments. ==== Ask reddit: Is there something wrong with the new queue? Of the top 25 new links only 8 were posted within the hour. New links are dropping off the new page much too quickly. (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ndq0/comments/c1ndqz I saw this the other day as well. I'll look into it. The 'rising' sort is based more-or-less on page-views, and I think traffic fluctuates now more than it used to, causing the new page to swing a little more. ==== Hotter Hot Page (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1narh/comments/c1nd0h I was just thinking that. Clearly I didn't make things hot enough. ==== While we were developing Reddit, we always used to run into people who'd recognize us and come up to say hi. "Oh, wow," they'd say to us. "I can't tell you how much your site has killed my productivity. I check it a hundred times every day." At first, we just laughed these comments off. (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1n50j/comments/c1ncb2 It's true... we seem to have a thousand projects going on at once. We're still moving though. ==== While we were developing Reddit, we always used to run into people who'd recognize us and come up to say hi. "Oh, wow," they'd say to us. "I can't tell you how much your site has killed my productivity. I check it a hundred times every day." At first, we just laughed these comments off. (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1n50j/comments/c1n7a4 > At first, we just laughed these comments off. Then what? ==== Ask Reddit: Is Pica Censored? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hetq/comments/c1mpzp Presently we do, but the new system won't. ==== Digg is on a campaign of widespread user and story censorship. (score: 23) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1mgig/comments/c1mj62 As long as it's still on wired, I think we have a leg to stand upon. ==== Digg is on a campaign of widespread user and story censorship. (score: 33) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1mgig/comments/c1mibt Unfortunately, we'll probably hear from lawyers sooner or later requesting that we take down the DVD numbers as well. ==== Will the Bush administration's cheaper-dollar talk backfire? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1m8lb/comments/c1m99l > This is in response to the MSNBC article submission, "How come the dollar keeps falling?" o > Double comment because I got a reddit error on last submission. What kind of error? ==== Will the Bush administration's cheaper-dollar talk backfire? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1m8lb/comments/c1m8qr Note: This article was written over three years ago. ==== Barack Obama has his own Reddit? (score: 70) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1lvza/comments/c1lwqj It's not actually being used. I believe a friend of ours wanted to give a demo of how reddit could be used for different things and asked if we could make the subreddit for him. ==== What's Been Keeping Us Busy (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1lpg2/comments/c1lpxj We're trying to stay positive. ==== Ask Reddit: Reddit search sucks. Please fix it. (score: 21) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1lovj/comments/c1lpki There is certainly a bug there. I haven't been able to replicate myself, though, which is why we haven't fixed it. ==== Ask Reddit: Reddit search sucks. Please fix it. (score: 53) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1lovj/comments/c1lpbs ok, we can do that. ==== Secret to my Masive Karma (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1lh4z/comments/c1lhk5 You shouldn't gain karma from submitting a link. Are you seeing something different? ==== FARK.com now grabbing the copyrights of all submitted content (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1l3jr/comments/c1l9t8 :( ==== Note to reddit admins, there are bots spamming the site. (score: 21) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1k2bw/comments/c1k3ge Yep, it's been a constant battle for a while now. We've got some good ideas for some changes that should make spam much less effective. Basically, we need to replace the new page with a system that progressively show links to more and more users. It shouldn't take too much effort, and I think it will go a long way torwards helping assuage the problem. ==== Ask Reddit: How was reddit released out in the world? (score: 6) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1jso8/comments/c1jv8y About 3 weeks, yep. We started after we moved to Cambridge, which was early June. ==== Ask Reddit: How was reddit released out in the world? (score: 19) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1jso8/comments/c1jv20 Basically, Paul had been bugging me to get a version of reddit online so he could see what we had been up to. I exposed the code I had, and he promptly put a link to it on the front page of his website. That was on June 22nd, 2005, I believe. ==== Ask Reddit: Feature Request - an open API so that we can implement all other Feature Requests ourselves. (score: 4) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1jhma/comments/c1jslh Jeremy is working on search! ==== Ask Reddit: Feature Request - an open API so that we can implement all other Feature Requests ourselves. (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1jhma/comments/c1jq5n true true. adding the display templates is easy. what i'd be really concerned about is the db load, but that's solvable as well. ==== Ask Reddit: Feature Request - an open API so that we can implement all other Feature Requests ourselves. (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1jhma/comments/c1jpo4 doesn't .rss work now? ==== Ask Reddit: Feature Request - an open API so that we can implement all other Feature Requests ourselves. (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1jhma/comments/c1jpny yeah yeah... it's been tough adjusting to the new life at a big company. we've gotten better at it and we're pretty deep into fixing much on reddit. ==== Ask Reddit: Feature Request - an open API so that we can implement all other Feature Requests ourselves. (score: 8) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1jhma/comments/c1jpn8 If you really want to work on it, send us an email and perhaps you can. ==== Ask Reddit: Feature Request - an open API so that we can implement all other Feature Requests ourselves. (score: 38) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1jhma/comments/c1jkej We'd certainly do it. It just takes time, and that's a scarce resource at the moment. ==== Reddit: Once a story makes it to the hot page, remove it from the new page (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1iovw/comments/c1iryb After what change? ==== Reddit: Once a story makes it to the hot page, remove it from the new page (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1iovw/comments/c1iqpr The trouble here is that it isn't clear where the "hot" page ends. The situation certainly needs improvement. One quick fix is to simply remove items from the rising page that are in the top25 hot items. ==== life [pic] (score: 52) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hz1q/comments/c1hzry No, we have nothing to do with them. ==== Ask Reddit: Is Pica Censored? (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hetq/comments/c1hg8t > Well, kind of. If the stupid performance reasons disappear, are all my comments from 2005 suddenly going to show up again? Hopefully! > Or is it possible to access them now, if I just think up the right search terms that will find an article without a lot of paging? That should work. ==== Ask Reddit: Is Pica Censored? (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hetq/comments/c1hg89 We see the reports, along with statistics how how accurate the report is, and how accurate are statistics are. A human would still have to step in. ==== Ask Reddit: Is Pica Censored? (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hetq/comments/c1hg7o I don't think so: I believe I fixed all our forms the other day when that guy wrote the auto-upvote article. ==== Ask Reddit: Is Pica Censored? (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hetq/comments/c1hg77 Yes, it's a pagination thing. One of the downsides of having all of your data in one place is its difficult to access all of the data in a timely manner. It's one of the issues we're addressing in the new stuff. ==== Ask Reddit: Is Pica Censored? (score: 38) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hetq/comments/c1hfhd As if we would ignore the issue and feign ignorance without your threat... ==== Ask Reddit: Is Pica Censored? (score: 31) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hetq/comments/c1hfg6 We don't delete any content. Even when you "delete" a link it just gets a little flag added to it. What you may be seeing is that we don't allow offsets higher than 1000 (or something) simply for (stupid) performance reasons. ==== Ask Reddit: Is Pica Censored? (score: 42) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hetq/comments/c1hfei Reddit users have always been at war with Pica. We who work on reddit find/found (i hope not) him amusing. Aside from asking him (?) to tone-down comments from time to time (which he always did), we've never had any problems. ==== Ask Reddit: Is Pica Censored? (score: 47) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hetq/comments/c1hfdo > It's probably Conde-Nast not wanting his ugly posts to smell up their ads. It's probably you jumping to conclusions. > If he is censored, Reddit won't say anything, they won't want to advertise the fact. Well, he's not. ==== Ask Reddit: Is Pica Censored? (score: 58) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hetq/comments/c1hfcy As far as we can tell he deleted all his submissions. Comments on deleted articles are skipped-- this should probably be considered a bug. ==== Disagree with Paul Graham: get banned from reddit (score: 21) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1h0r5/comments/c1h4zr i am ==== Disagree with Paul Graham: get banned from reddit (score: 40) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1h0r5/comments/c1h2js Who, dforbes? There's nothing wrong with his account. ==== Disagree with Paul Graham: get banned from reddit (score: 50) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1h0r5/comments/c1h2fv This is what we try and prevent. Anything else is accidental. ==== Disagree with Paul Graham: get banned from reddit (score: 45) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1h0r5/comments/c1h1pr Fair enough. Although it's disappointing that our users consistently assume the worst of us despite the fact that we have never attempted to control content outside of spam. ==== Disagree with Paul Graham: get banned from reddit (score: 106) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1h0r5/comments/c1h1ht We don't do anything like that. ==== Disagree with Paul Graham: get banned from reddit (score: 107) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1h0r5/comments/c1h1fp It looks like his IP was used to spam reddit at one point. This happens from time to time, and we always clear things out. When this happens, sending us an email is the best way to fix things, as opposed to jumping to conclusions and blind-siding us with some foolish conspiracy theories. The notion that someone would be banned for disagreeing with Paul is silly. Given that Paul occasionally flames reddit on reddit itself, I wouldn't mind seeing someone disagree from time to time. ==== Photo: Will Make You Think Twice Before Sleeping in a Forest in Angola (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1gpa3/comments/c1gt8u Unreasonable? Maybe we clicked different links. ==== Ask Reddit: What do you think about allowing users to submit anonymously? (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1gre7/comments/c1gsu7 For the users who care about their karma, this defeats the purpose. ==== Ask Reddit: What do you think about allowing users to submit anonymously? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1gre7/comments/c1gsiv > I'm still not sure that anonymous submissions really gets you where you want to be. I hadn't really thought about it too much; I figured I'd let you all do it for me, and I'd catch the summary at the end of the day. ==== Ask Reddit: What do you think about allowing users to submit anonymously? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1gre7/comments/c1gs97 > 3.The Attacker(s) are playing karma games, for whatever reason. This is the only problem that anonymity would solve, but of the three you listed, I think this one is far and away the most popular for a handful of users. I was shooting for a simple solution to what is mostly a simple problem. Solving (1) and (2) is much more difficult, but those are the problems we've been working on for the last while. ==== Ask Reddit: What do you think about allowing users to submit anonymously? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1gre7/comments/c1grjc Maybe we could make a 10-karma minimum for the ability to mask your name. ==== Ask Reddit: What do you think about allowing users to submit anonymously? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1gre7/comments/c1grf0 We get many complaints from users (especially those with high karma) who are concerned their links are being targeted for one reason or another. A simple solution could be to allow users to disassociate their name from the submission; there could be a simple toggle that authors can switch to hide/display their names. ==== Ask Reddit: Why not let us buy ads? (score: 19) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/1eyy9/comments/c1f4k4 All in good time. ==== audible (score: 10) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/1euks/comments/c1ewsh It's just a dumb ad server. For some reason the code they generate on the ad server is different for different user-agents. ==== wired ad (score: 7) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/1efsn/comments/c1emp9 not if i have any say left ==== wired ad (score: 5) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/1efsn/comments/c1emnf The original version of that ad was just a static image. It's gone for now. ==== Hey Reddit. This "prank" is just annoying. Let's just say April Fool's ended early. (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1eg0y/comments/c1ei0p me too... ==== wired ad (score: 4) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/1efsn/comments/c1efw2 ironic... the ad doesn't even work. wtg, left-arm. ==== Slashdot's April Fool Joke is a Jab at Reddit (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1edx1/comments/c1efuk OMG! ==== I hacked Reddit - sorta (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1e7za/comments/c1ebby try it ==== What's this new wired.reddit.com site? Looks like a collection of Nerd Pranks. (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1dx31/comments/c1e2s9 There's also an html tag called iframe that is more relevant in this case. ==== What's this new wired.reddit.com site? Looks like a collection of Nerd Pranks. (score: 42) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1dx31/comments/c1dy9y They get embedded into various wired.com pages. for example ==== brace yourself, ads are coming (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1dsdj/comments/c1dts5 Well, we can try. ==== brace yourself, ads are coming (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1dsdj/comments/c1dtm3 > Also, no chance of using project wonderful to create an ad market? Any thoughts on that project? Interesting. There are tons of ways to make money with reddit, many of them I'd prefer (and I suspect users would as well) over plain-old advertising. They are unfortunately complicated to implement and complicated to explain to advertisers (maybe?). We'll give them a shot eventually. ==== brace yourself, ads are coming (score: 41) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1dsdj/comments/c1dt7n To be honest, I doubt anyone involved in the advertising will actually see the votes. In fact, I'd be surprised if every ad didn't have a score of -200. I do think commenting on them will be funny, though. ==== brace yourself, ads are coming (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1dsdj/comments/c1dt6l To an extent, yes. Turning on ads is a big step for us as well, and we've been hiding from it for as long as possible. ==== brace yourself, ads are coming (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1dsdj/comments/c1dsxl > That is an almost spineless to slither away from any possible (and definitely misguided)blame and hog angelic karma Really? I thought I was just saying we didn't want to start running ads until we got some new features out the door, but it's taken us longer than expected, and we can't delay them any longer. ==== Hey Reddit, got any ideas that I could steal? (score: 7) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1d46g/comments/c1dejk working on it... ==== Thanks for compression reddit! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1d6dt/comments/c1ddfm CPU numbers aren't very useful in this case because there are so many and they vary widely from one another because the load-balancing isn't even. ==== Thanks for compression reddit! (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1d6dt/comments/c1da8p These are just eyeball numbers (I'm trying to normalize them for traffic increase-- as in, load is constantly increasing because traffic is constantly increasing): Server 1 load before/after: .7/1.1 Server 2 load before/after: .7/.6 That is, load across the servers was basically the same before compression, now it has increased on one, and decreased on the other. My suspicion is that server 1 spends less time blocking now so it gets hit more often by lighttpd's load-balancer. ==== Thanks for compression reddit! (score: 36) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1d6dt/comments/c1d8b3 It's nice to see nice posts about reddit on reddit's front page everyone once and a while. ==== Thanks for compression reddit! (score: 38) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1d6dt/comments/c1d8as We're gzipping at the application level. There is definitely a load increase, and it has affected load balancing some (lighttpd is weird like that). When lighttpd 1.5, which has mod_deflate, comes out, we'll start looking at transitioning. ==== IBM doubles CPU cooling capabilities wih simple manufacturing change (score: 10) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/1cwcq/comments/c1d0qb Why wait? ==== Startup School Broadcast Live (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ckha/comments/c1cl1m Here's the schedule. All times are PST, btw. ==== Why smart programmers should start their own companies, by a successful Y-Combinator founder (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1c1a8/comments/c1c3sg > Good luck with your "incentivizing" with 10 grand for 6% of the company stock BS. I'm not sure they need any more luck: they're doing well enough as it stands. ==== dadadit -- xkcd.com's randomly generated reddit headlines (score: 63) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1baml/comments/c1bb0s > Digg et al Queda priceless... ==== reddit could become 4.4 times faster - just by turning HTTP compression on (score: 41) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1b72e/comments/c1b8jz mod_deflate isn't included in lighttpd until ver. 1.5. I usually wait until packages make their way into debian testing before considering using them. Given that we've been bitten a number of times messing with lighttpd, I'd assume not to right away. ==== Reddit *WAS* broken. They fixed it. (score: 31) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ahee/comments/c1aheu I can't even karma-whore on my own links anymore... ==== Impeachment woes on reddit? XKCD to the rescue! (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/19bu2/comments/c19e7s More like incomplete sentence. I wonder where he was going with that. ==== Cross-site scripting at YCombinator (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/18tdu/comments/c194ew XSS of submission titles ==== Cross-site scripting at YCombinator (score: 8) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/18tdu/comments/c18vup I found one too a while back. Screenshot. It was fixed fairly quickly, however. ==== Somtheing wrong with the "new" page? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18uno/comments/c18v5m They could try I guess... we have legal support now. ==== Somtheing wrong with the "new" page? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18uno/comments/c18v53 The slipup wasn't related to all that business on the front page. I finally got some new caching stuff working so we could add more servers, but broke the precomputer for a little while. ==== Somtheing wrong with the "new" page? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18uno/comments/c18uuu It's always been rising, but rising is weird this morning after we had a slipup last night (I think... still looking into it). ==== Reddit's 'new' page with default 'rising' does not appear to be updating properly - can someone please confirm? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18uj1/comments/c18utz It is certainly weird. I'll check into it. However, it may still be recovering from the issues we had last night. ==== Seems like Reddit's submission system has a bug: '0' point upon initial submission instead of '1' (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18qpc/comments/c18qsr There was a little while ago. The page wasn't updating properly. The "rising" sort takes page-views into account, and when I fixed things all of a sudden there were a couple hours' worth of posts with zero page-views. ==== Seems like Reddit's submission system has a bug: '0' point upon initial submission instead of '1' (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18qpc/comments/c18qqd ok, fixed ==== Seems like Reddit's submission system has a bug: '0' point upon initial submission instead of '1' (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18qpc/comments/c18qph I just checked. The voted counted, so it must be a display/caching bug. ==== Reddit Switch to amazonaws.com Considered harmful (score: 23) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18l9z/comments/c18mdq should be static.reddit.com now ==== What we've been up to at reddit lately (score: 21) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18aoo/comments/c18dnf fixed ==== What we've been up to at reddit lately (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18aoo/comments/c18c4b The lighttpd + fastcgi combo has always been on the buggy side, which isn't surprising considering how complicated FastCGI is. I don't know what started it (load?), but we started experiencing many more errors than usual at the FastCGI level, so we decided to switch. So far, so good. ==== What we've been up to at reddit lately (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18aoo/comments/c18bjc I did mess with that code, so it's probably a bug. I'll check. EDIT: it was a bug, and now it's fixed. ==== What we've been up to at reddit lately (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18aoo/comments/c18b5j > I sorta like the "design" we have now. So do we, but we can't claim perfection. We'll always strive for fast + lightweight as long as I have something to say about it, but there are many rough edges and kludges that could use some attention. ==== What we've been up to at reddit lately (score: 18) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18aoo/comments/c18b4r > So, what happens when I report a comment as spam? The same thing that happens when you report a link: it gets recorded, and we see the probability the item is spam based on the users who reported it. Obviously anything that involves "we" and not "you all" doesn't scale well, so exposing all this to you all is on the agenda. > And can I only report it as spam? What about hateful or libelous comments? Can I report those, too? There's a gray line in there somewhere that's difficult to define. ==== What we've been up to at reddit lately (score: 20) ==== http://reddit.com/info/18aoo/comments/c18b39 ninjas only, sorry ==== about:blank (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/24116/comments/c181lq Or when someone clicks the bookmarklet on a non-html link (an image or text file). ==== Anyone else getting "500 - Internal Server Error" occasionally? (score: 50) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17tce/comments/c17tqy It's fixed now; it was a bug related to one of our startup scripts. Thanks for all chiming in... ==== Ask Reddit: Why don't you use Python? (score: 13) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/17s0g/comments/c17sfh > Significant white space. The white space used to really bother me, but now I love it, especially when I switch between Lisp and Python. The indentation between the two is basically the same, except in Lisp one has to add what are often unnecessary parentheses. Using white space to delimit scope makes for very readable code: there is less for your eyeballs to parse. ==== Reddit Bug: Why can't you guys count the correct number of comments? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/169sn/comments/c17q5e That's because you can't redirect to an anchor. ==== What ever happened to tags on Reddit? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1743r/comments/c174e4 we're working, we're working. We're not bolting on tags to the current implementation, however; we're reworking much of the backend to address other scaling issues as well. ==== Why Can't Programmers.. Program? (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/16swb/comments/c16zjs Many of the solutions did checked for mod 3, mod 5, and mod 3 && mod 5, but only the first two are required for the solution. ==== Why Can't Programmers.. Program? (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/16swb/comments/c16vkg What's astonishing to me is that the first four or five solutions in the comment thread with this article aren't even correct. Slightly less astonishing, but still annoying, is the separate mod operation for the mod 3 and mod 5 case in many of the solutions. ==== Reddit's markdown code. spez says that patches are welcome. (score: 15) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14xmf/comments/c14zik There are many times when I wish we were still using Lisp. Chicken Scheme is my current Lisp of choice, though. ==== Reddit's markdown code. spez says that patches are welcome. (score: 9) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14xmf/comments/c14zic We do it on render, and memoize it. We could denormalize it in the db, and may actually do that in the next version of the db. If I recall we didn't do it in the first place because we didn't use markdown in the first place, so it was just simpler to bolt markdown on afterward. ==== Why was Yahoo! Stores rewritten in C++/Perl from Lisp? (score: 9) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14x7c/comments/c14zev The story as I most recently heard was that Trevor was a language nut and was frequently rewriting Viaweb in other languages. At one point Trevor rewrote Viaweb in C++, which was around the same time as Paul left Yahoo. Yahoo eventually decided to stick with the C++ version because [insert opinion here]. ==== Reddit's markdown code. spez says that patches are welcome. (score: 12) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14xmf/comments/c14zdu Franz actually gave us copies of Allegro, but that was long after we switched. ==== Reddit's markdown code. spez says that patches are welcome. (score: 16) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14xmf/comments/c14zdf It wasn't; but I came across the actual bug (it wasn't in markdown.py) while investigating your comment. ==== Reddit's markdown code. spez says that patches are welcome. (score: 10) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14xmf/comments/c14zd7 At the time, our version was the only version fast enough. I think python-markdown is relatively new compared to our copy, and I try to avoid swapping out libraries if we don't have to. ==== Ask Reddit: do the reddit people confuse you as much as they do me? (score: 23) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14v8a/comments/c14ybs Ok, fixed. ==== Ask Reddit: do the reddit people confuse you as much as they do me? (score: 8) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14v8a/comments/c14y31 To be honest, I'm not sure if Aaron intends on maintaining markdown.py. I'll certainly pass any working patches along, but I've never pulled from webpy.org itself since there tend to be painful (for us) bugs. We could keep our copy online somewhere if it's different, though. ==== Ask Reddit: do the reddit people confuse you as much as they do me? (score: 21) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14v8a/comments/c14xhm I did read his comment, and I replied to the portion that wasn't a personal attack against myself. ==== Ask Reddit: do the reddit people confuse you as much as they do me? (score: 26) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14v8a/comments/c14x5e If anything, we strive to be trendy. ==== Ask Reddit: do the reddit people confuse you as much as they do me? (score: 4) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14v8a/comments/c14wzn There are two sorts for the new page- all and rising. "all" is simply sorted by date, and rising, which is the default, which is similar to new, except it takes into account how many times a link has been drawn, and how many people have voted up on it. The problem is probably that your RSS feed and the reddit page are showing different sorts. ==== Ask Reddit: do the reddit people confuse you as much as they do me? (score: 25) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/14v8a/comments/c14wxb > A bunch of problems: their 'number of comments in this reddit' regularly indicates one more than the -actual- number of comments. That's a side-effect of the way we block spam. Spammers still see their comments, while other users don't. > You can't post a link with a broken title, delete that link, and re-submit it. Yes you can. > You can't have OMFG LESS-THAN SIGNS-IN MARKDOWN CODE. See below... > People regularly ask for additional subreddits, or tags, or tags instead of subreddits, and such things, and the reddit people for whatever reason cannot respond to this requests, or try them out, or even appear to have any progress with adding value or fixing bugs. We are working on much of that as we speak. We have been slow for a while; however, it should be fairly obvious as to why. EDIT: http://webpy.org/track/browser/markdown.py is the markdown compiler we're using at the moment. Knock yourself out; send a patch. EDIT AGAIN: If you actually want to mess with markdown (and have it show up on reddit), send the patch to steve @ reddit. ==== Discuss: Should reddit make users' votes public? (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/146bw/comments/c146uf That was basically our reasoning in the beginning, so no worries. ==== Discuss: Should reddit make users' votes public? (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/146bw/comments/c146h7 Apparently not. Though I didn't want to do a poll, I just wanted to hear what everyone thought. Interesting fact: The sum of the karma for people who voted this up is 17472 (mean: 1941, median: 633), while the sum of the karma for people who voted it down is 943 (mean: 114, median: 0). ==== Hey Sid13 downvote this with your "sock puppet" accounts like you are doing with all of my other posts. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/13isa/comments/c146bk I'm torn on the issue. On one hand we do prefer solutions where we offload the problem to the users rather than trying to find the more-difficult automatic solution. On the other hand, we think votes should be private. I'll put up a post in a sec and see if the community would like to weigh in. ==== Paul Graham: Learning from Founders (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/13vhg/comments/c13xae > Middle-distance and longer runners kick it at the finish. And as they say, it's not a sprint, it's a marathon. My cross-country coach used to say, "if you have enough energy to sprint at the end, you weren't working hard enough during the rest of the race." ==== Parallel Python (score: 4) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/13mvy/comments/c13pnt This strikes me as nothing more than a glorified RPC library. I was hoping it was a working implementation of something like POSH. ==== Ever wonder how your professor grades your exams? (Hilarious, w/Pics) (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/13odq/comments/c13pjc I like his page of links ==== Hey Sid13 downvote this with your "sock puppet" accounts like you are doing with all of my other posts. (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/13isa/comments/c13j5t It's not that we don't care; it's that there's not a whole lot we can do without affecting legitimate users. However, it's not as big an issue as it seems because the handful of users who attack one another tend to cancel bogus votes out. When things get out of hand, we tend to hand it on a case-by-case basis and most users are willing to mend their ways. ==== "Don't worry, folks, tags are coming. Really, they're being worked on at this very moment." - Alexis (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/137pf/comments/c13cy4 He's an only child. It is always about him. ==== Steve Jobs talks about DRM (score: 25) ==== http://reddit.com/info/136kz/comments/c137t9 > This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM. That's because it's scary to buy music protected with a DRM-- I'm afraid I'm throwing my money away into something that I'd like to last a long time. And when it comes to implementations of technology, very little lasts a long time. If I could buy non-DRM music electronically and legally, I would hemorrhage money at whomever was selling it, and I bet many others would too. ==== Upvote if you want to get rid of all the subreddits and replace them with tags so that those who don't like photos on the front page but do like vids or who don't like programing but do like international politics can choose to filter what they see accordingly. (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1328g/comments/c1352k > it kind of sounds like an absurd amount of complexity and that's not really our style. > When will Reddit just KNOW what I want to see? Dammit! The good news is is nearly finished with his PHD and you can start harassing him for improvements. ==== Upvote if you want to get rid of all the subreddits and replace them with tags so that those who don't like photos on the front page but do like vids or who don't like programing but do like international politics can choose to filter what they see accordingly. (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1328g/comments/c134z6 You're assuming people tag the same thing the same way. Yes, interesting phenomena happen when you start looking at similarities in the way people tag things, but relying on that type of coordination won't get you far. (e.g. what if someone tags random stuff as [stupid poll]?) disclaimer: Don't let me be a party-pooper. We're still going to try anyway: you all can figure out how to use them for whatever purposes you like. I do think there is a solution to the I-don't-want-to-see-annoying-crap problem, however, I just don't think it's tags. We're working on that too now (finally). ==== Upvote if you want to get rid of all the subreddits and replace them with tags so that those who don't like photos on the front page but do like vids or who don't like programing but do like international politics can choose to filter what they see accordingly. (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1328g/comments/c134xo Tags are fine. As I mentioned in another thread, we're adding them. I'd be surprised if their addition helped users avoid content, however. I do think they'll help users find content. That's not to say we won't try; I'm just skeptical. ==== Upvote if you want to get rid of all the subreddits and replace them with tags so that those who don't like photos on the front page but do like vids or who don't like programing but do like international politics can choose to filter what they see accordingly. (score: 28) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1328g/comments/c132m0 First of all, tags are not a solution to avoiding content you don't want to see. Second of all, stop pushing real content off the front page for these things... ==== Ask Reddit: Reddit Needs Tags - Let's talk how tags should work (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/131dh/comments/c131s8 Discuss away. I warn you, though, I think we've had this discussion many times. ==== Ask Reddit: Reddit Needs Tags - Let's talk how tags should work (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/131dh/comments/c131gz We're always up for change, and are currently making some big backend changes, part of which is a tagging system. ==== Want to work for reddit? (score: 4) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/10cve/comments/c11w3c We were under the impression CS is typically an engineering degree. ==== Ask Reddit: Many are claiming bots are automatically downvoting submissions. What's the best way to stop them? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10z1x/comments/c110za > He says this is to try to block spam; but it sounds to me like a self-reinforcing mechanism. The intention was spam, but unfortunately the later is true as well. ==== Ask Reddit: Many are claiming bots are automatically downvoting submissions. What's the best way to stop them? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10z1x/comments/c110yx > LOL, what gave him that idea? He's crazy. Could have been his name. ==== Ask Reddit: Many are claiming bots are automatically downvoting submissions. What's the best way to stop them? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10z1x/comments/c110y5 In the other thread I posted these stats, which are probably relevant. ==== Want better stories? Vote more, and don't be afraid to vote down (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10xrd/comments/c110ww Well, not much I can say there other than I'll check into things and let you know if something's amiss. ==== Want better stories? Vote more, and don't be afraid to vote down (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10xrd/comments/c110o3 Considering I gave no indication of what I meant by "very low" karma or the actual probabilities involved, you're leaping to conclusions. ==== Want better stories? Vote more, and don't be afraid to vote down (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10xrd/comments/c110mx I should have known better than to respond to "obvioustroll." ==== Want better stories? Vote more, and don't be afraid to vote down (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10xrd/comments/c110kv ...or you can submit something worthwhile? ==== Want better stories? Vote more, and don't be afraid to vote down (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10xrd/comments/c110h6 The hidden submissions are from users that have a good chance of being spammers. We basically roll the dice on every page-view for users who have very low karma. If you reload the page, you should see some stories appear, and some disappear. ==== Want better stories? Vote more, and don't be afraid to vote down (score: 29) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10xrd/comments/c10zo9 Here are the average number of ups, downs, and the totals for recent submissions: time ups downs total ------------------------------ 2 hours 2.8 2.2 .6 1 day 7.5 4.5 3 with fewer than 10 votes (85% of submissions): 2 hours 1.4 1.4 0 1 day 1.4 1.4 0 Out of 1766 submissions over the last 24 hours, 31 had a score of less than -4, which is the default threshold for display, and 329 were caught as spam. ==== Want better stories? Vote more, and don't be afraid to vote down (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10xrd/comments/c10zbk I'm 100% convinced you're paranoid. Rarely do stories receive more than one or two downvotes-- not even spam. ==== Want to work for reddit? (score: 16) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/10cve/comments/c10jtg You're right. I guess I'm a little over-sensitive these days. ==== Want to work for reddit? (score: 21) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/10cve/comments/c10dv4 SF preferred, but let's cross that bridge when we get there. ==== Want to work for reddit? (score: 63) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/10cve/comments/c10dud It depends what kind of garbage collector you are, really. ducks ==== Want to work for reddit? (score: 94) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/10cve/comments/c10do8 Applicant should also be capable of accepting mistakes and fixing them. ==== One HUGE Reason Reddit is Better than Digg (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zrkh/comments/czss0 We wouldn't use it to affect hotness rankings, but it would be useful for spam detection (and maybe other types of filtering) and recommendations. Also, it would probably interesting to see how different domains fair. ==== One HUGE Reason Reddit is Better than Digg (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zrkh/comments/czsax As it stands, voting on comments does not affect karma. When we added the comment system, we figured we see how users used the voting before we'd let the votes affect karma. One thing we noticed was that in the comments, even a decent comment can get modded below -50 sometimes. While some indication of a user's comment worthiness would be good, we figured the voting patterns between submissions and comments were different enough that the scores should be kept separate. We didn't really take this into account when we wrote things the first time, but we'll take it into account now. ==== One HUGE Reason Reddit is Better than Digg (score: 23) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zrkh/comments/czrzx > One thought would be to have some type of "internal karma" for a domain name or website. We really liked that idea a while ago, but had forgotten it until now. Now that I'm diving into the backend stuff again, provisions for this (and comment-karma) will be added. ==== One HUGE Reason Reddit is Better than Digg (score: 21) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zrkh/comments/czrwr I should just make an auto-reply macro that says, "down-votes do not affect a link's position on the new page." edit: but now that I think about it, I guess users could push a story below the default threshold. ==== Reddit Software Change: Submissions Starting With Zero Points (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zdzw/comments/czjn9 Link? ==== Reddit Software Change: Submissions Starting With Zero Points (score: 29) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zdzw/comments/czgcv Should be fixed. ==== Reddit Software Change: Submissions Starting With Zero Points (score: 45) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zdzw/comments/czfkz I checked on things, and it is indeed a bug. The initial vote is not getting cached properly, but it is stored in the db, and it's the db that affects the rankings, so it's a purely cosmetic issue for the time being. ==== Reddit Software Change: Submissions Starting With Zero Points (score: 47) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zdzw/comments/czfhw We haven't done anything of the sort. Sounds like a bug; I'll keep an eye on it. ==== Ask Reddit: Please Fix Mail Icon. See comments. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rp80/comments/cyrym 1 ==== Amazing reddit Anouncements (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xz8s/comments/cy2jx > If the password is the same then won't the hash be the same too? If you don't salt them. But then what's the point of hashing? > I agree with you if you are right about 'a password that complies with a simple regex.'. I am not sure what percantage of spammers actually fall into this category. Probably not that many? Almost 100% of the automated spam. ==== Amazing reddit Anouncements (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xz8s/comments/cy06n You can search within urls by using the url: key. For example, search for url:cnn.com. The reason search sucks so bad is the sorting is broken. Like I said, it shouldn't be too complicated to fix (we may lose some of the sorting options temporarily, though). ==== Amazing reddit Anouncements (score: 27) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xz8s/comments/cxzra It's not a complicated fix, I'll see if I can get it working better tomorrow. ==== Amazing reddit Anouncements (score: 51) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xz8s/comments/cxzpz That's dumb. We'll get that fixed. edit: fixed ==== Funny Sign at a Nudist Beach (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xwex/comments/cxy89 Things will get on the front page more quickly if the stories already on the front page are older. ==== Brilliant and hilarious WWF Canada spot on global warming. Check it out - this should go global. (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xrzm/comments/cxsin I was expecting something from the World Wrestling Federation, which would have much more funny. ==== "reddit cloud" (written in lisp) (score: 19) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/xhln/comments/cxj1n I wish I could just snap my fingers and get more help, but unfortunately it's not that simple. We'll be hiring soon, but much of process is out of my hands. You seem to be under the impression that the site magically stays running. Unfortunately, this is also not the case. Simply keeping the site online and speedy is more than enough work for one person, and I'm the only full-time developer at the moment. We have been slacking on the blog posts for a while, but frankly, I'm tired of being attacked personally-- it only makes it more difficult to work on the site. ==== "reddit cloud" (written in lisp) (score: 14) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/xhln/comments/cxidg what gives? ==== Calif. passes anti-trunk-driving law (and there are no typos in that sentence). Reason why is a killer. (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/x100/comments/cx1vn one two ==== Fun with query strings (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/wsm7/comments/cww41 Sorry... I'm going to have to fix this one. ==== Fun with query strings (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/wsm7/comments/cww3t I couldn't figure out why everyone was hitting that link this morning. ==== best haircut ever? [pic] (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/wrbo/comments/cwsn9 what a nub ==== Ask Reddit: Please Fix Mail Icon. See comments. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rp80/comments/cwmuw test ==== Ask Reddit: Is Reddit Developed with Web.py and how? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/vovg/comments/cvox8 Yep, pretty much everything goes through web.py. It is fairly small, but web applications don't require a lot of bells and whistles, especially not reddit. ==== Something seems to be quite wrong with Reddit (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/vnsl/comments/cvny0 I just replied to your email. It was (ironically) lost in the spam. ==== Does anybody vote on new posts? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/vcdo/comments/cvfzm I've said it once, I'll say it again: downvotes do not affect a link on the new page. ==== Reddit CAPTCHA enters realms of impossibility [JPG] (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ux9n/comments/cv23j Not really logic so much as it was a joke. ==== Reddit CAPTCHA enters realms of impossibility [JPG] (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ux9n/comments/cv23c Then that bot will have passed the Turning test and the world will collapse on itself. ==== Reddit CAPTCHA enters realms of impossibility [JPG] (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ux9n/comments/cv05y I don't know, reddit never seems short of people complaining... ==== Reddit CAPTCHA enters realms of impossibility [JPG] (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ux9n/comments/cuxqu Like the captchas, we don't apply the rate-limiting to everyone. ==== Reddit CAPTCHA enters realms of impossibility [JPG] (score: 20) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ux9n/comments/cuxop We really dislike captchas, but it has been incredibly effective. The vast majority of our users never see it. Before the captcha, most of the spam was blocked by the rate-limiter. The trouble was the first submission from a spammer always made it through, and every space counts on the new page. In the comments, however, one spam comment doesn't really ruin anyone's day, so I think the rate-limiter will work nicely. ==== Reddit CAPTCHA enters realms of impossibility [JPG] (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ux9n/comments/cuxod I can't claim we accommodate the blind very well. Of course, if someone emailed us and said they were having a problem, I'm sure we could work something out. ==== Reddit CAPTCHA enters realms of impossibility [JPG] (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ux9n/comments/cuxmk I'd suggest reload, get a new image, submit something great, and never see one again. ==== Reddit's Streak of Bad Luck Continues... (score: 29) ==== http://reddit.com/info/usqe/comments/cuugl It is [easy to implement], and I'll go ahead and do it now that everyone has decided to weigh in. Personally, I prefer the convenience of being having my passwords emailed to me when I forget, which happens from time to time since I use difference passwords everywhere. Not hashing was a design decision we made in the beginning, and it didn't stem from irresponsibility-- it stemmed from a decision to provide functionality that I liked. It bit us in the ass this time, and we are truly sorry for it. The irresponsibility (and there is some) was allowing our data to get nabbed. ==== Reddit's Streak of Bad Luck Continues... (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/usqe/comments/cut9c http://reddit.com/prefs/update ==== Reddit's Streak of Bad Luck Continues... (score: 31) ==== http://reddit.com/info/usqe/comments/cusz4 When we first moved reddit to python, we spent some time playing with Django. At the time, we couldn't get it to do some of the things we wanted (mostly data related). My understanding is it has come a long way since then, however. ==== Hey Reddit - where have you been? (score: 23) ==== http://reddit.com/info/uoid/comments/cuonq Believe me, enough people already know my number. ==== Hey Reddit - where have you been? (score: 39) ==== http://reddit.com/info/uoid/comments/cuojc DNS troubles, unfortunately. ==== Geocities 1996: Funny CSS Zen Garden entry by Bruce Lawson (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/umdf/comments/cuo0a > One day this gallery will be a historical curiosity; that day is not today. how apt... ==== a history of reddit, in screenshots! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/tr5c/comments/cu0el We cache in lots of areas, especially if you're not logged in. When you're logged in, the pages are mostly generated on the fly, but much of the data behind them is continuously pre-computed. ==== The Downfall of Digg (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/tvsi/comments/cu0ef True. Interestingly enough, posts with 1 comment are typically spam. ==== The Downfall of Digg (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/tvsi/comments/ctx39 Downvotes do not affect items on the new page. ==== a history of reddit, in screenshots! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/tr5c/comments/ctwck Unless I'm mistaken, you used to live with him. ==== a history of reddit, in screenshots! (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/tr5c/comments/ctwbn Reddit runs primarily on three servers: one application, and two db. There is also a web server, a search server, and a recommendation server. We used to have more application servers, but we have new multi-core servers that can run multiple reddit processes. Over the course of a day we see around 25k - 55k page views per hour, with the average around 40k. ==== a history of reddit, in screenshots! (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/tr5c/comments/ctrl6 Looking at those screenshots I have a reaction similar to what I suspect proud parents have when they look at early pictures of their once-young children. ==== Redit Alert: Reddit is not keeping user state consistent across server machines votes and comments are being lost! (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/sslm/comments/csum5 bullshit > Speak for yourself, man. ==== Redit Alert: Reddit is not keeping user state consistent across server machines votes and comments are being lost! (score: 20) ==== http://reddit.com/info/sslm/comments/cstuf I'm basically the sysadmin. Yes, sometimes the caches get out of date, but I think the issue here is a DB replication one. Fortunately, we have some new DB hardware, but it's taking time to get everything moved over. ==== Is reddit forgetting your votes too? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ss0s/comments/css53 It's more like temporary memory loss. I noticed it happening to me yesterday too. I know what the problem is, and it should be fixed once we upgrade some hardware. ==== Ask Reddit: Please Fix Mail Icon. See comments. (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rp80/comments/crufx As in, probably over Thanksgiving when I mess with the database. ==== Ask Reddit: Please Fix Mail Icon. See comments. (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rp80/comments/crqfn > I haven't noticed bugfixes or feature adds. No features, but there have been a number of bug fixes. You may not have noticed because you're one the lucky users who didn't see them in the first place. > Reddit has effectively slammed on the brakes. That's not true. I'm in the middle of upgrading hardware, and that's taking longer than expected. Once we get situated and get things stable again, we'll be able to get back to actual development. We're dealing with some fairly drastic changes at the moment and are doing our best to keep up. ==== Ask Reddit: Please Fix Mail Icon. See comments. (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rp80/comments/crqda Any suggestions for public bug-tracking solutions? ==== Ask Reddit: Please Fix Mail Icon. See comments. (score: 55) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rp80/comments/crq84 It's a stupid bug, I'll fix it when I get a spare moment. ==== Reddit at the Wired office (score: 71) ==== http://reddit.com/info/r2i3/comments/cr2uw So far, I'm actually enjoying myself at wired. The people are cool, the new hardware should be cool (will find out tomorrow), and they treat us great. ==== The request for subreddits clearly indicates that reddit needs tags. (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/qoto/comments/cqrp2 That works when people want tags to find content, but it doesn't work so well when users want to avoid content, which seems to be what users are clamoring for. ==== The request for subreddits clearly indicates that reddit needs tags. (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/qoto/comments/cqq7h Seriously? ==== The request for subreddits clearly indicates that reddit needs tags. (score: 32) ==== http://reddit.com/info/qoto/comments/cqpz6 Subreddits were never intended to be used for topical groups (i.e. we never planned on having programming.reddit or science.reddit), but we did make a few as a stopgap solution until we could address the categorization issue for real. Unfortunately, it's been a long time coming, and I apologize. I've never been a fan of using tagging either, however. The trouble is tags are fairly personal: what I call "politics" you call "left-wing drivel." That and the fact that no one would actually tag a link about politics as "politics," even though that's what we really want. To get around this issue, the solution we've been talking about is having a (short) list of defined tags. Whether this works for topics, I'm not sure, but it would be definitely useful for other meta information: spam, pic, nsfw, video, pdf, dupe, etc. For topics, a user-controlled list of available topics would be cool. When you submit, you'd see a list of popular content categories from which to choose (science, politics, blah). We'd need the ability to repair mis-taggings and abuse as well, and to grow the list. I'm not sure this scales very well, however. PS - more hardware is on the way, things should speed up soon. ==== The request for subreddits clearly indicates that reddit needs tags. (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/qoto/comments/cqprx Keeping the damn site online. Hold your horses, we'll get there. ==== Reddit Acquisition: The Afterparty (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ozpv/comments/cp7ak That's almost the opposite of what I said. For the first time it was relevant, since for the last year and a half we paid for food from the same pool of money and never had to worry about it. ==== Reddit's "recommended" feature is down again. What gives? (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/p79o/comments/cp7ab Sorry about that. It'll be back in little bit just as it was before. ==== Reddit Acquisition: The Afterparty (score: 20) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ozpv/comments/cp1zo I don't have time to participate in a point-by-point how-to-fix reddit thread, but here are the main issues I'd like to address, in no particular order: Speed. Community growth. Reddit worked very well when it was used by predominately one community, but now there are a couple, and they conflict. User experience issues. Reddit has plenty of glitches and rough edges that we need to fix. ==== Now that reddit has evil corporate overlords, it might be time to ask, what does reddit log about us? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/onij/comments/covj8 Fortunately, we've already had the discussion about the privacy policy. There aren't any immediate plans to change things, so we'll cross that bridge when we get there. ==== We want to know how much Reddit was bought for (score: 39) ==== http://reddit.com/info/omkb/comments/coop8 millimeters? ==== Now that reddit has evil corporate overlords, it might be time to ask, what does reddit log about us? (score: 93) ==== http://reddit.com/info/onij/comments/conru Right now our privacy policy is http://reddit.com/help/privacy_policy There are not a whole lot of things you can do on reddit that are not public. Obviously, we keep track of everything you've voted and clicked on, but we use that information only to tell you what you've voted and clicked on, and for recommendations. Whenever you vote on a link, submit, or leave a comment, we also note your IP. This is used exclusively for anti-cheating purposes. If we change the privacy policy, we'll let you know, and provide some sort of mechanism to purge your old data (specifically, email addresses) if you want to. ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 44) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/comtl Yes, that's probably a better solution. ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 63) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/combx Thin air ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 23) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/com8u Don't make me start submitting again... ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 73) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/com7g Save it. Our intention for nsfw.reddit was for adolescent humor that, when on reddit itself, was causing users trouble at work. Unfortunately, it quickly degenerated into porn. Hopefully we'll make another attempt at the original goal in the future. ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 54) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/colzh Fortunately, we will retain much of our autonomy, and are basically going to continue down the same path as we were before. ==== The reddit draft needs YOU: go upmod some new articles to give them a chance. (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ne6l/comments/cni54 I think you're being paranoid. Yesterday's voting ratio was almost exactly 2:1 upvotes. I know there are a couple users, myself included, who practically live on the new page and downvote quite frequently. UPDATE: That being said, if anyone has any evidence or specific suspicions, we'll always check them out. There have been cheaters in the past, and I'm sure there will be more in the future. ==== The reddit draft needs YOU: go upmod some new articles to give them a chance. (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ne6l/comments/cnf5k Show me an example. ==== Why did we get a science subreddit a day after asking when a politics subreddit has been demanded more times and with far more votes? (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/msp5/comments/cmvbj I created the science subreddit to create a place for people interested in science stories because at one time they were very popular on reddit, but the trend is shifting, and this isn't the case anymore. We didn't want to lose the science content altogether. Ditto for programming. Politics obviously does not have that problem, but that's not the reason we don't have a politics subreddit. The reason is that we had different plans for politics beyond a simple subreddit. In general, subreddits are not a good solution to the problem. As I've stated before, subreddits (and reddit in general) will work best when there's a cohesive community behind it. Right now, science and programming are more akin to tags, and created to solve an immediate problem. ==== The View From the Top of World of Warcraft - It's Not Pretty (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/mlwa/comments/cmozn No, we store them all. We just had problems on our hardware fetching the really old ones in a reasonable amount of time. I can't say when, but you'll be able to view them all at some point. ==== We need a Science subreddit! (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/mlff/comments/cmovw science.reddit.com ==== Ask Reddit: Why is the user 'overview' tab identical to the 'comments' tab? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/lzyi/comments/cm0k9 It's a bug. I've fixed it, and I'll upload it soon. ==== MS DOS 6.0 source code available on Google Code Search (score: 9) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/lxbv/comments/clzwu > NOTE: I know "45" is not very intuitive. However, it IS a very short path name, and, as such, allows this project to build under DOS with the 128 character command line length limit! ==== Writely + Spreadsheets = docs.google.com (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/lnev/comments/clort > Please note that it is a violation of intergalactic law to use this parameter under false pretenses, so don't let us catch you at it. shit ==== When will Reddit add a preview button for comments? (score: 2) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/acdc/comments/ckoyv It has nothing to do with being hard, or reddit not using Lisp. We've been dealing with other more pressing issues. ==== Lowest REDDIT karma to submission scores? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jxwy/comments/cjxxi You mean you think your karma is low? ==== Beware using Google Calculator for Engineering (1 Hz = 2 pi rad/sec) (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jr7g/comments/cjs39 > in some circles hahahaha ==== Ask Reddit: What are you using for DB replication? (score: 8) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/jl2a/comments/cjpfw We use postgresql + slony, and are fairly pleased. Most of the time reddit slows down, it's db related, but so far there has always been a way to work through it. That being said, I feel we have to spend far too much time worrying about the database, and that's probably the situation with any relational db. Presently, we have a db master that replicated to one machine, and that second machine replicates to a couple others. Most of the reddit queries are handled by the master and the first slave. The other slaves are used for backups and slow queries (e.g. stats and recommendations). Replication and query load-balancing helped out a lot with the database load, but it introduced a new host of problems. Replication lag, in particular. This occurs when a db write is committed to the master, but the next read hits a slave before the write has propagated. ==== Think Progress - FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jkx1/comments/cjlk9 Thanks. It was a bug. When the story hit #1, the #1 flag didn't propagate properly, and when something is wrong with a link we don't display it (otherwise you'd see a 'reddit broke' message). Sorry about that. ==== Think Progress - FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jkx1/comments/cjlaz A couple people have complained about this in feedback as well. If someone has a link to where the original used to be, I can tell you what happened. ==== Ask Reddit: Why can't we edit our titles? (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jc2j/comments/cjdrz Not really, but since you said nice things about the recommender I'll indulge you. :) As to why we didn't deploy the version I demoed way back when, I honestly don't recall. The approach we were going with then was allowing anyone to edit anyone else's title, and let the highest-karma user's title reign. We also toyed with the notion of having a list of candidate titles that users could vote on (I notice that's been suggested above as well). It seems like this issue comes up constantly, so we'll readdress when we can. At the minimum I don't see an issue with allowing submitters to alter their own titles for some amount of time. ==== Ask Reddit: Why can't we edit our titles? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jc2j/comments/cjdoy > With all the other RDBMS goodies here, it can't be much more work than some new columns (historical/mod up down), some stored procedures If you think that's easy on a live database that's replicating itself seven ways til Sunday, we might have a job for you. Fortunately, we made all those changes a long time ago so it's a non-issue now. ==== Ask Reddit: Why can't we edit our titles? (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jc2j/comments/cjcjs To be fair, we were working it at the time. I may have even demoed it publicly at some point. ==== The recommendation system just got waaaay better... (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/j69m/comments/cj8lz Basically the way it works now is it clusters users based on their votes, and for each user generates a list of similar actively-voting users. We take that list and find links that those users voted up recently. It's a major simplification over our last attempt(s) that tried to recommend specific links to specific users. Of course, this opens the door for a couple features that have been requested before. Namely, displaying the list of users you are most similar to. I wonder if we add that will users be disappointed. Presumably we'll also be able to detect clusters of users that are trying to game the system. Time will tell... FYI, we're still not looking at content at the moment, but we will eventually. ==== Ask Reddit; Why did I suddenly go from ten to zero recommendations? Has this happened to anyone else? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/j0oo/comments/cj0vx ...because we were playing with the recommender. It should be better now. ==== Petition: reddit people, please fix the recommendation engine! (score: 18) ==== http://reddit.com/info/i6zt/comments/ci8xz I'm not going to sit here and make excuses. Things come up that take our attention, but this is a priority, and we're close to getting a better version up. ==== Petition: reddit people, please fix the recommendation engine! (score: 32) ==== http://reddit.com/info/i6zt/comments/ci8nn We have a new version of the recommender that is going to be launched over the next couple of days. ==== A Field Guide to Developers (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/gv5l/comments/cgzwo You can actually see the score by looking at the details tab if you really want. ==== Ask Reddit: What Exactly does the "Report" Button do? (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ghqq/comments/cgl5x Absolutely. Reddit gets ridiculous amounts of spam these days, and reporting it/downvoting it is very helpful. Again, I hope to make all this public soon, but it's a non-trivial task, so please bear with us until we get it right. ==== Ask Reddit: What Exactly does the "Report" Button do? (score: 27) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ghqq/comments/cgl1j Right now, we have a listing that shows how many people have reported each user/domain/link, and use that to filter out spam. Ultimately we'll make that listing public in some fashion so you all can see what is being reported. ==== New reddit voting buttons for blogs (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/giny/comments/cgkwd Not at the moment, but we'll add that shortly once we get the bugs worked out of these. ==== New reddit voting buttons for blogs (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/giny/comments/cgkru Surround sections you want to look like code with backticks. That should help. > encodeURIComponent Isn't strictly required, but things can get confused when the url being submitted has GET parameters. ==== Poll: Why does Reddit keep crashing? (inquiring redditers want to know) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ft6a/comments/cfvq0 The comment-500 issue is the biggest bug we have right now. It's been a real pain in the ass, but I hope it's much better now. We're installing some new hardware this weekend that should also help. ==== Poll: Why does Reddit keep crashing? (inquiring redditers want to know) (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ft6a/comments/cft8e If it's only for a few seconds, it's probably me restarting something to upload new changes. Recently it disappeared for 20 minutes or so, and this wasn't a reddit issue, per se, but an infogami issue. But since the two share a webserver, and lighttpd isn't very clever about load-balancing, the whole site spazzed out. ==== Ask reddit: Is reddit being crushed by its own popularity? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/fhm9/comments/cfiq5 That's pretty much the problem. We've been replicating the database and our cache to deal with load, but we've seeing lots of glitches as a result. ==== Ask reddit: Is reddit being crushed by its own popularity? (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/fhm9/comments/cfhxj I've been working on this problem the last couple days, and I hope it's getting better. We have some new hardware coming in that should help as well. ==== Real Life Command Lines (score: 32) ==== http://reddit.com/info/fb2x/comments/cfckp When I first saw it I was disappointed because I couldn't find anyone online with whom to share it. Then I saw it on reddit, and all was well. ==== Rumor: Yahoo Acquired Jotspot (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5qf7/comments/cfbei test comment ==== Ask Reddit: Anyone ever notice their karma get 'stuck'? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/e2qp/comments/ce2xo You can't affect your own karma. ==== Rottentomatoes has 79% favorable for Snakes on a Plane (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/e02p/comments/ce05o this made at fairly entertaining ==== Ask Reddit: Would you prefer tags instead of subdomains in reddit? (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/dxrk/comments/cdyyv Actually, clicking on the alien returns you to the subreddit, and clicking on reddit returns you to reddit itself. ==== Ask Reddit: Would you prefer tags instead of subdomains in reddit? (score: 58) ==== http://reddit.com/info/dxrk/comments/cdxud We're going to expand both. Subreddits are for people, tags are for topics. ==== Suggestion: Show me users whose articles I've liked (score: 32) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cgkw/comments/ccglh > Also: show me users whose taste I agree with! For similar reasons. Coming soon ==== Was reddit down this morning, 8-9:30 PDT? What happened? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cdo0/comments/ccdqa No, but it looks like there was DNS problems upstream from us and some people had trouble resolving reddit.com itself. ==== Ask reddit: What's with the stats page? (We've got awards for best lurker, best sage etc) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/c96s/comments/ccbfq It's a little off as I calculated it early this morning. Once we get a hang of things, we'll do it during the traffic lull around 12am est. ==== Ask reddit: What's with the stats page? (We've got awards for best lurker, best sage etc) (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/c96s/comments/cca7p They're all statistical. ==== One of the coolest things you will ever see on eight treadmills (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/c79h/comments/cc7ee here's another good one ==== Reddit hits profit as its technology nets praise in market (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/c3s6/comments/cc4sw It has built-in primitives for concurrency and message-passing over a network, and was designed specifically for use in applications where uptime is critical and scaling is a must (reddit fits the bill quite nicely). Unfortunately, it doesn't have much in the way of string support, and its custom database (mnesia), while very cool, wouldn't quite fit our needs. Although, I heard someone wrote a bdb backend to mnesia that absolutely screams. ==== Reddit hits profit as its technology nets praise in market (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/c3s6/comments/cc4f9 I've probably considered using everything at one point or another, but the decision basically came down to, do we want to constantly reinvent the wheel, or just get things working? ==== Netscape Navigators Revealed (Ousama from reddit) (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/c2gl/comments/cc2hj I'm just bummed I wasn't accepted :-/ ==== Netscape Navigators Revealed (Ousama from reddit) (score: 18) ==== http://reddit.com/info/c2gl/comments/cc2h7 A bit of a shame it's in this context. ==== Can Your Programming Language Do This? (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bwbu/comments/cbwsm I agree. It is amusing, though, that the world's largest implementation of such a system is written in a language that is often overlooked when it comes to programming functionally. ==== Can Your Programming Language Do This? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bwbu/comments/cbwq5 Isn't Google's implementation of MapReduce implemented in C/C++? ==== There are too many stories on reddit (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bw2s/comments/cbwpl Another variant we have spoken about would be on each loading of the page a random selection of new stories from the last 5 (?) hours. Maybe we could have new/rising/random, for instance. ==== There are too many stories on reddit (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bw2s/comments/cbwpa Aye Aye! ==== There are too many stories on reddit (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bw2s/comments/cbwfr We made a first attempt a while back, and it worked for a while. It seems a few links find a way to fall through the cracks. We'll come back to it soon and clean them out. Our intention certainly is for links on the hot page to not be on the new page. ==== Help reddit and read the new entries (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bnj3/comments/cbwfe It absolutely should, I don't know why I haven't put it in the few lines to make that work. I'll add it soon. ==== There are too many stories on reddit (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bw2s/comments/cbwee > This subverts the idea of "new" - maybe change the terminology to mean something like "fresh"? This means that it's sorted not only by how new it is, but how infrequent people have touched it. That's essentially how 'rising' works, stories get priority based on how many times they've been seen. > Submissions by high karma users should float longer than submissions by low karma users (if not many people see it). It sounds good at first, after all, the high-karma users are who made the site what it is, but we wouldn't want to restrict the ability of low-karma users to gain a foothold. ==== There are too many stories on reddit (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bw2s/comments/cbwed That is our intention, but it's a little but fuzzy because the hot page doesn't technically have an end, it's one continuous stream all the way to the beginning. ==== Envelope icon's glowy status should ACTUALLY reflect whether there are new messages or not. (score: 5) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/agjw/comments/cbthf I know it's spazzy. I'll go back to it soon and get it right once and for all. ==== An option that makes every link use my.reddit.com as much as possible (score: 2) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/bapz/comments/cbthb ok ==== When will Reddit add a preview button for comments? (score: 2) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/acdc/comments/cbtgj Soon ==== Argh, please don't rewrite the URL on mousedown (score: 4) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/acun/comments/cbtgh Ok, so I tried this and now I know why we didn't do it this way in the first place. When firefox users try to open in a new tab, this opens the link in a new tab and also in the current window. I'll revisit this problem again once I get through some other bugs. I know it's annoying. ==== Allow organization of saved links by tagging, sorting, or something else (score: 2) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/ay5n/comments/cbtg7 Ok. We've been talking about tagging for a while. I don't know when it's coming, but it's coming. ==== A better search engine for Reddit (score: 3) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/b9n0/comments/cbtg5 I just upgraded the search engine the other night. One new feature is the url: tag for searching urls. However, it also broke a few things I need to go back and clean up. Namely, I haven't figured out a good way to join the search results with the actual reddit db as they are no longer in the same db. ==== A better search engine for Reddit (score: 2) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/b9n0/comments/cbtg0 Ok Ok. I'm trying to be better about features.reddit starting now. ==== reddit's link direction for stories interacts poorly with nytimes links (score: 2) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/bki0/comments/cbtfv In the general case, how would you like to see this work? ==== Help reddit and read the new entries (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bnj3/comments/cbnug > However, the new entries page needs to default to all, not rising, so one downmod doesn't 'disappear' a submission completely. One downmod has zero affect on the rising page. Downmods are not taken into account at all on the rising page. ==== Help reddit and read the new entries (score: 25) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bnj3/comments/cbnqg Please, send me an example, if we find something out of the ordinary, we'll take some action, but we've yet to see any evidence of downvotting bots. ==== reddit: can we do anything against spammers and downvoting bots? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/877s/comments/cbnm7 thanks ==== Ask Reddit : Are your submissions being downmodded in seconds? Maybe Reddit users are all Evelyn Wood graduates. (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bnfh/comments/cbnge The more likely scenario is the first mod on your story didn't get applied before the page was drawn. All submissions start with a score of 0, and then are modded up by the submitter. Sometimes the page is drawn before that first mod is committed. ==== If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened (score: 25) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bmlt/comments/cbneo > If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it — it’s cheaper in the long run. Enough said. ==== *Please* stop submitting NYTimes links to reddit. They are not permanently accessible. If you must, linkjack (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bkh2/comments/cbko4 I was going to fix the redirection thing as well while I was at it. ==== *Please* stop submitting NYTimes links to reddit. They are not permanently accessible. If you must, linkjack (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bkh2/comments/cbkni We used to do that, but it was causing problems. I'll check it out again this weekend and see if we can get it going again. ==== Argh, please don't rewrite the URL on mousedown (score: 1) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/acun/comments/cbkir Next time send that to feedback-- we stand a better chance of seeing it. I'll play around with it this weekend. ==== reddit using redirector on its links (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bi9j/comments/cbib2 we've never not kept track ==== reddit using redirector on its links (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bi9j/comments/cbiam ...and that as well. Browsers never get that right. ==== reddit using redirector on its links (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bi9j/comments/cbiab We don't do much with the click data presently, but we started keeping it in the beginning with the hopes of using it for recommendations. ==== An Experiment: Reddit posted on Digg. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b6xk/comments/cb86o > they sure will be benefiting from it I think we would have benefited more if the original recursive link had remained and we avoided all of today's drama. ==== An Experiment: Reddit posted on Digg. (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b6xk/comments/cb77p nope ==== reddit needs a "go to comments" bookmarklet (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b6r5/comments/cb6r7 The 'reddit this' bookmarklet will automatically take you to the comments page if it exists. ==== reddit: can we do anything against spammers and downvoting bots? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/877s/comments/cb6ip Not really-- downvotes have no affect on the rising page. That also means downvoting isn't very effective at removing spam, but that is what the 'report' button is for. ==== Why I Love Apple aka: making your way up reddit (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b4s2/comments/cb6ar > A drawback might be that it probably doesn't work well on brand-new submissions since there are not yet sufficiently many votes for them to do the computation. Exactly. We're also working on a content-based system, and ultimately, we think a combination of collaborative filtering and content is going to be what actually makes this work. ==== Why I Love Apple aka: making your way up reddit (score: 37) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b4s2/comments/cb5w3 The recommended page work based on collaborative filtering. It doesn't care that the article in question was about Apple, it only cares who voted on it. ==== Reddit: Seriously this is getting really slow! (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ayz5/comments/cb1iu We know, we know. I just uploaded some changes that should help. ==== Ask Reddit: can Reddit stop bots from voting? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/apge/comments/capk1 Before another conspiracy-theory debate erupts, are you sure there are bots voting? If you are, email what you know to feedback and we'll figure out a way to fix it. ==== Does/should the reddit alien have a name? (score: -6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/anvm/comments/canvt shhhhh. it's a secret. ==== FCC should fine Bush 325,000 for Swearing on TV (score: -2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/adwn/comments/cadwv Shouldn't CNN pay the fine if they air someone swearing, not the person who swore? ==== My cousin's "next" generation website - he thinks its cool. What do you think? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8zau/comments/c8zj7 I think it actually triggered a bug in Safari. It maximized my browser, and now I can't resize it vertically. ==== The Power of the Marginal (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8mk5/comments/c8pum If you've downvoted it, hidden it, upvoted it with the appropriate options, or it's outside your scorelimit, it won't be displayed. In that case, the first item will be displayed as "2" so the ordering across users is preserved. ==== BBC NEWS: 'We will be able to live to 1,000' (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8n3g/comments/c8p07 There was a similar article to this in Popular Science a few months back. It claimed that even if we solved the wear-and-tear and the human body problem, we'd still live to only about 250 because the odds of getting hit by a bus are too great at that point. ==== New "Nicotine Water" Goes on Sale (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/89xl/comments/c8afa > Testers said it tastes like water, with a hint of lemon and nicotine. ha ==== Ask Reddit: Why did the comments section change? (score: 1) ==== http://request.reddit.com/info/89h7/comments/c8aar We added comment pagination slightly before that, causing worse problems. We uploaded a few changes to this system that should help shortly after you commented, though. The mail link has never changed though. ==== reddit: can we do anything against spammers and downvoting bots? (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/877s/comments/c87yn Yes, there are definitely a lot of good ideas in this thread. As always, we'll expiriment with different solutions and try to find a good middle-ground between preventing spam, but not making our users jump through too many hoops. ==== reddit: can we do anything against spammers and downvoting bots? (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/877s/comments/c87u7 > Or, even worse, are reddit owners even interested in finding a solution? Yes, of course we are. > No human could have found the story, read the linked article and vote. I think you underestimate the number of reddit users who troll the new page. While we work on different solutions, reporting/downvoting spam stories is very helpful. We use the reporting to ban users and track what actually is spam. Down-voting helps keep reddit clean because once a story has a score of -4, the vast majority of users won't even see it. ==== Google += 5.5 billion spampages (in only 3 weeks) (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/84o6/comments/c862z That's just not true. Articles are modded down by everybody. The vast majority of spammers' votes simply are not counted. Also, the rising page does not take into account down-votes. If you submit a story and it's instantly voted down, nothing changes. If just one other person votes it up, it'll stick around a little longer. ==== Ask Reddit: Should comments affect Karma? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/771o/comments/c859g Click on the permalink of one of the parent comments and it should give you more room. ==== Simple Fix For Increasing Reddit Spam Problem (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/834b/comments/c84sy Why do you say it doesn't work? Have you seen any submissions from him lately? ==== Change comment replies back to the way they used to be (score: 4) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/7qyu/comments/c80nq Believe me, I know it's annoying. ==== Change comment replies back to the way they used to be (score: 4) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/7qyu/comments/c80kj Yes, I know it's not ideal. The trouble was once we added pagination, the permalinks broke. Also, when people wrote comments they would be take to a page that didn't have their comment at all. We'll fix it soon. ==== Ask Reddit: What's causing the problems the past couple days? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7zh7/comments/c7zi9 We've noticed it too. We have a couple solutions that should be up soon. ==== Fox Host Julie Banderas tells Shirley Phelps-Roper "You are the devil [...] You're going to hell" [vid] (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7r6b/comments/c7r6r Cat fight! It gave me a headache all the way from the other room. ==== The Beautiful Game - Jaw Dropping Skills (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7jes/comments/c7kg9 Football? Soccer? Who cares? The real enemy is baseball. ==== Ask Reddit: what books should I buy If I'm to undertake a CS degree (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7hht/comments/c7ib6 Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming ==== ask reddit: Limit submits per minute? Or per 5 minutes? These nicks djhdyhujjhd, pkjcujfbhgjm, wkqjwyhwyh for example just spammed reddit (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7db3/comments/c7dri I suspect the vast majority of users did not continue to see the posts since the articles would have a score of approximately -11. Even still, you shouldn't have to deal with this so much. We've got a good plan for it, it'll just take a little to get online. ==== ask reddit: Limit submits per minute? Or per 5 minutes? These nicks djhdyhujjhd, pkjcujfbhgjm, wkqjwyhwyh for example just spammed reddit (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7db3/comments/c7dr8 It is used as a spam filter, just not a very good one. We'll be updating it soon I hope. However, reporting links, domains, and submitters is still very helpful. ==== Why is my 'comments' page empty half the time? (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7dpf/comments/c7dqg It's because half your comments are on subreddits-- mostly programming. ==== Ask Reddit: MySQL or Postgres? (score: 6) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/7aj2/comments/c7ca5 Yes, we still use postgres. We have our complaints, but I suspect we'd have the same complaints if we used MySQL. The hard problems we regularly face are scaling and making changes to the schema. If we could make some thing like mnesia work, that would be pretty cool. ==== I checked 'remember me' dammit! (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/73if/comments/c745w Also to be fair, we tried a fix. Seems to work for me, but this has always bugged us. ==== Digg.com is down (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/73iw/comments/c73t6 Maybe it's a big upgrade? ==== I checked 'remember me' dammit! (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/73if/comments/c73qo Nothing anymore. We used to use it to remember your votes/clicks/etc through forward/back buttons. ==== I checked 'remember me' dammit! (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/73if/comments/c73q6 To be fair, someone did complain about this recently. ==== Ask reddit: how did you discover reddit? (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6zz5/comments/c71id It was probably Paul Graham. ==== Ask reddit: how did you discover reddit? (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6zz5/comments/c70au hotness bars ftw! ==== Scary Stuff: Education Majors have lower levels of literacy than all other students studied (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6opp/comments/c6q51 ...becau$e we think is should be ea$y to find intere$ting content. ==== Reddit closer to porn than digg (DTP-4 vs DTP-6) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6px1/comments/c6q4w nsfw.reddit.com anyone? ==== Scary Stuff: Education Majors have lower levels of literacy than all other students studied (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6opp/comments/c6p41 I agree. Idealy, more money equals more competition equals better teachers. Although it seems unlikely that the best teachers are motivated by money. ==== Ask Reddit: Do you care what your Karma score is? (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6ln3/comments/c6mln is reddit.com/stats what you're thinking of? We've been talking about making that page more insteresting for a long while... ==== Ask Reddit: Do you care what your Karma score is? (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6ln3/comments/c6mfe Karma was critical in the beginning as the site took off. Our first users were on a karma rampage, which led to lots of submissions and lots of voting. ==== Ask Reddit: Do you care what your Karma score is? (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6ln3/comments/c6mfb Yes, we use it in a couple places. ==== Ask Reddit: Is anyone reading the new queue? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6i8l/comments/c6iwh Down votes are not disabled. ==== Ask Reddit: Is anyone reading the new queue? (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6i8l/comments/c6ib4 We should, the graphs are pretty cool. ==== Ask Reddit: Is anyone reading the new queue? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6i8l/comments/c6iad Yes. I don't have the data handy, but whenever we do stats work, I'm the outlier. ==== Ask Reddit: Is anyone reading the new queue? (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6i8l/comments/c6i8q I pretty much only read the new queue. I typically venture to the hot page only to see what I've missed. ==== Thinking in Logarithms Can Be Natural (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6g8d/comments/c6gfp Isn't that why we have ln? ==== Google almost had every-day-changing aliens on its home page (like Reddit?) (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/674s/comments/c67v0 Perhaps that page should be paginated? Maybe the first thousand aliens on one page, and the second thousand on another. Would help with loading times... ==== Do you want the down vote back on reddit? (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5y7a0/comments/c61h0 I'm convinced no matter what we do half the users are going to complain things are broken. When we get home this afternoon we're going to try another compromise. In addition, recommender updates are nearing completion. ==== "Bush" or "US politics" should become a subreddit (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5z0u/comments/c600j Bear with us-- updates to the learning algorithm are coming that will prevent the politics from showing up if you choose are coming. They're non-trivial, but are on the way. ==== Truth on reddit - how to avoid sensationalism ruling the frontpage. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5xpt/comments/c5yj3 Hang in there. This is an experiment/temporary solution. I think we're getting ahold of the proper way to solve the problem we were trying to solve. ==== Truth on reddit - how to avoid sensationalism ruling the frontpage. (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5xpt/comments/c5y9h Considering we didn't know of digg's existence when we started, it's annoying to be called a cheap knock-off. ==== Truth on reddit - how to avoid sensationalism ruling the frontpage. (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5xpt/comments/c5y68 The good news is we have some cool improvements that should fix many of the common complaints (too much Bush, etc.) ==== Reddit Experiments with only counting Up Votes (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5v59/comments/c5w6j Voting down still works, and we still keep track of the cumulative score. The default is to still not show anything with less than -4 points. ==== Reddit Experiments with only counting Up Votes (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5v59/comments/c5w0x Fixing... ==== Reddit Experiments with only counting Up Votes (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5v59/comments/c5w0w That's actually kind of funny, I would have thought even more would be on the front page. Maybe links the would have otherwise been passed up have replaced them. ==== It takes a lot of balls to make a video like this. (score: 30) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5v04/comments/c5v3f Best headline ever. ==== Ask Reddit: Why has reddit become so boring in the last 4 days? (score: 18) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5u02/comments/c5uwi We're going to be a little more aggressive and try a couple things over the next few days to ameliorate some of these problems. Bear with us, and let us know how we're doing. We'll blog about the changes as they come. ==== Add a page that shows unread replies to comments (score: 1) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/5j0e/comments/c5md6 I noticed some weirdness too the first time I loaded it in another browser. I think I know the problem, but it's going to take a little to fix it. The message count only gets reset when you view the inbox presently. ==== Add a page that shows unread replies to comments (score: 1) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/5j0e/comments/c5mcm It should, and yours showed up for me. Hrm... ==== Add a page that shows unread replies to comments (score: 3) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/5j0e/comments/c5m0z Testing... ==== Emacs key bindings make you retarded (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5jhy/comments/c5js0 The main reason I continue to use Safari over Firefox is that I cannot function without emacs key bindings. ==== Why Paul Graham won't release Arc (score: 25) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/57s4/comments/c57zz If this gets popular enough, he'll probably tell you himself, but just in case, how about the simple explanation? He's not working on it; he's working on Y Combinator. ==== What Blizzard Doesn't Want You to Know About World of Warcraft (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5y83e/comments/c514d > That is what the real world is for. If I want a massive chance of failure, I'll ask a girl out. I won't try to farm up a Chromatic Breastplate. ...haha ==== Attempted robbery of David Copperfield: "There's nothing in this pocket..." (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5y852/comments/c50rm I don't know. I've seen him make an elephant disappear. He probably could have taken his friends' loot back if he had wanted. ==== reddit (score: 8) ==== http://web2.reddit.com/info/4v0s/comments/c4xwj It's tough, I have an uncontrollable urge to down-vote startups I don't like, and I keep clicking the blank white spot below the up-arrow. ==== Let us query the database! (score: 10) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/4kjh/comments/c4wjc Maybe down the road we can set up a mirrored, read-only database for you this. ==== reddit (score: 22) ==== http://web2.reddit.com/info/4v0s/comments/c4wj2 Yes, now that reddit users think reddit is the best, we can all sleep at night. ==== reddit (score: 6) ==== http://web2.reddit.com/info/4v0s/comments/c4wiw We're actually going to try this page as up-vote only for a little and see how it goes. ==== Digg Corrupted: Editor's Playground, not User-Driven Website (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4p29/comments/c4q43 It's true. It was part of dollars4karma exchange program. ==== Digg Corrupted: Editor's Playground, not User-Driven Website (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4p29/comments/c4q3x hey hey hey... I think it was just a comment, wasn't it? ==== New reddit feature: Report the spam (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4j1i/comments/c4k4o Yes. Me. ==== Jingle Bells Reversed - Lucifer Speaking? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4iwd/comments/c4ix4 I haven't fallen for one of those in a long time, but that was a good one. ==== Today's reddit spammer of note: martonem (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4ikk/comments/c4iku The best way to combat spammers now is to click the report tab on one of their submissions and report them. ==== Google Calendar Launches (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4btk/comments/c4cn7 Ok, so they both yanked the colors from reddit. It's the double line between days in week view that really jumped out at me. ==== Ask Reddit: The new "(this comment has been modified)" flag sucks? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4bur/comments/c4bxj We would never edit someone's comment. ==== Ask Reddit: The new "(this comment has been modified)" flag sucks? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4bur/comments/c4bxh It's not new, actually. It was just disabled for a while because we changed the way we stored comment information. Now that we have the change timestamps again, we can show the message again as well. ==== Google Calendar Launches (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/4btk/comments/c4bwe They completely lifted the ui from Kiko. The tabs, the double spacing between columns, the contact list, the colors... ==== things I've learned from my startup (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/46ka/comments/c47bc Oh yeah? I haven't seen any aliens lately. Where are they? ==== reddit implements top requested feature - "Most Controversial" (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/41i5/comments/c425k It's basically: (ups + downs)/(|pop| + 1) ==== Love, Hate and Apathy on reddit.com (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/40tr/comments/c04253 This one, however, was not a coincidence. We had known about the problem, but fixing it broke everybody's bookmarklets. It had never been exploited, so we delayed breaking the bookmarklets until it was actually an issue. The actual solution to the problem we had already decided upon, so it was just a matter of plugging it in. ==== Love, Hate and Apathy on reddit.com (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/40tr/comments/c04234 The fact that this was on the front page when we uploaded this was a coincidence, actually. ==== reddit implements top requested feature - "Most Controversial" (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/41i5/comments/c421b Not really, most people liked it.