Reddit or Boards?

eyerer

Never really gave reddit much of a thought, I first heard of it years ago and I kinda heard it was bottom of the barrel internet types on it. I guess that has either changed or it depends on the subreddit you go to...
Like the guy above, I might give it a closer look. I normally use three forums including Boards and often I run out of stuff to read through. The reason I started using boards was because it was more local, back then every other site I was on was American :O

Well there'a a good reason it's the 4th most popular site in America and the 5th in Ireland. Boards.ie is sixteenth here.

me_irl

For those who are saying that reddit threads are confusing, or who want to read the comments in order: Underneath the title, there's a sort by (new / old / top / controversial /) Not sure if this is only a feature of Desktop & Reddit Enhancement Suite.

The_Captain

I despise the layout of reddit.

It's basically

OP
 >One-liner
   >lol
   >good one
   >have my upvote
       >I'm upvoting too
 >One-liner
   >amazing
   >reaction.gif
       >saved
       >upvote
 >Actual discussion of the topic
     >reply
         >reply to reply
     >different reply

It's so disjointed.

riffmongous

The_Captain wrote: »

I despise the layout of reddit.

It's basically

OP
 >One-liner
   >lol
   >good one
   >have my upvote
       >I'm upvoting too
 >One-liner
   >amazing
   >reaction.gif
       >saved
       >upvote
 >Actual discussion of the topic
     >reply
         >reply to reply
     >different reply

It's so disjointed.

Yeah but to me that seems easier to follow, you just collapse the first two comments and then all that's left is discussion, on Boards it could be

OP
>One-liner
>lol
>good one
>thanks whore
>Actual discussion of the topic
>reply to thanks whore
>One-liner
>reply
>amazing
>reaction.gif
>different reply
>saved
>different thankswhore
>reply to reply
>reply to reply to reply
>reply to reply to reply
>reply to reply to reply, goal posts moving
>reply to reply to reply, ad hom
>reply to reply to reply, ad hom [B]BANNED[/B]
>different reply
 

thatfeel

Reddit is pretty good for niche topics but not much else in my opinion.

Winkelmutt

Hrududu wrote: »

My problem with Reddit is I go there and read a thread. But if I go back later and want to see what else has been added to the thread it's a pain following it

You can change the layout.

dudara wrote: »

The upvote thing on Rediit is the exact reason I've never taken to it. I find it disruptive, I like to read the conversation in its natural flow. Plus, I don't even trust people to vote for Eurovision acts.

You can change the f*cking layout!

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

Reddit for a quick fix/the latest news.

Boards for in-depth, constructive and logical discussions on important topics and current events.

I've read boards for a while and it's seriously repetitive with little to offer in the way of contributions to various subforums.

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I don't understand how Reddit works. It's not linear. It's just all over the place and I can't follow it.

You not being able to understand it is you're fault, not Reddit's. Millions can.

Also, YOU CAN CHANGE THE F*CKING LAYOUT!!!!

greencap wrote: »

You can directly post pictures and videos here. I like that.

Yeah, best of luck trying to see a football gif of a goal in the soccer forum here. Too many stupid rules on boards.

So, Reddit.

Ursus Horribilis

I'm glad Boards exists so I don't have to use Reddit. I gave it a go and I can't stand it, regardless of what the cool kids say.

Darkglasses

Nothing to do with being cool or not. On Boards there's forums with no posts for years, but there could be 60 new posts a day on the Subreddit. Admittedly, you lose the Irish focus.

Skylinehead

riffmongous wrote: »

Yeah but to me that seems easier to follow, you just collapse the first two comments and then all that's left is discussion, on Boards it could be

"Discussion" being the prevailing opinion, because everything else is hidden at the bottom of the page. I use reddit a lot but it's absolutely useless for a debate.

me_irl

Skylinehead wrote: »

"Discussion" being the prevailing opinion, because everything else is hidden at the bottom of the page. I use reddit a lot but it's absolutely useless for a debate.

I agree with this.

I prefer the "one tier" reply approach (much like boards). The "nested replies" are unnecessary and I don't even bother reading a reply of a reply of a reply of a... and so on.

riffmongous

Skylinehead wrote: »

"Discussion" being the prevailing opinion, because everything else is hidden at the bottom of the page. I use reddit a lot but it's absolutely useless for a debate.

Then change the sorting to 'old'

the_pen_turner

just joined Reddit a few hours ago after reading this thread.
I changed it to old but I still hate it
I cant find anything, all the topics are all over the place
there is no rhyme or reason to the replies

I cant see any reason for choosing reedit over boards. except that any off topic discussion goes off into one of those collapsed areas

Skylinehead

riffmongous wrote: »

Then change the sorting to 'old'

Just did it - yeah they're no longer at the bottom, but they're still hidden by default. Still the same problem.

riffmongous

Skylinehead wrote: »

Just did it - yeah they're no longer at the bottom, but they're still hidden by default. Still the same problem.

One click is all it takes, I mean we have to change the page on threads here every so many posts, I've never heard anyone complaining about it though or say it ruins the flow

Skylinehead

riffmongous wrote: »

One click is all it takes, I mean we have to change the page on threads here every so many posts, I've never heard anyone complaining about it though or say it ruins the flow

You have to do exactly the same thing (load more instead of next page) on reddit unless you have RES so I have no idea what your point is there.

You're still not getting it. Dissenting opinions from the norm shouldn't be hidden just because the majority disagrees. How easy it is to click them is not the point.

Reddit vs boards is like foreign electronic first-past-the-post voting vs irish paper Proportional-Representation.

It's a little parochial, slower to wait on, but there's real people involved, everyone gets heard, and the Russian hackerfilth bots have a harder time playing their mindgame ****ehawking.

Darkglasses

Reddit isn't really a discussion site at all IMO. You could have a great time on reddit while completely ignoring the comment section on every subreddit. Boards meanwhile is totally about the responses.

riffmongous

Skylinehead wrote: »

You have to do exactly the same thing (load more instead of next page) on reddit unless you have RES so I have no idea what your point is there.

You're still not getting it. Dissenting opinions from the norm shouldn't be hidden just because the majority disagrees. How easy it is to click them is not the point.

I never have to click to load more on reddit, so for me I click more following a boards thread, that's my point.

I do get it, it's a problem on certain reddits, but do I think it ruins my experience on the site or makes it harder to read than Boards? No I don't

KyussBeeshop

Reddit for the 'Leave It The Fuck Alone' mod approach to interfering with discussion.

In contrast, Boards looks like it's being eaten alive from within, by a complex mess of rules-for-rules-sake, needless bureaucracy, and corporatised faffing around with the site, that collectively are taking their toll on the community.

Bunny Colvin

Only started using Reddit a few months back. It's unbelievably vast. There's subs for everything.

Best thing about it is the amount of posters. Because you can filter the best comments, you're always reading informed/funny comments. AskReddit is a great sub too.

Still, Boards definitely has its place.

Skylinehead

riffmongous wrote: »

I never have to click to load more on reddit, so for me I click more following a boards thread, that's my point.

I do get it, it's a problem on certain reddits, but do I think it ruins my experience on the site or makes it harder to read than Boards? No I don't

You almost certainly have RES then.

I don't think it's harder to read either, that obviously was not my point. Reddit stifles discussion in its own way.

Miike

KyussBeeshop wrote: »

Reddit for the 'Leave It The Fuck Alone' mod approach to interfering with discussion.

In contrast, Boards looks like it's being eaten alive from within, by a complex mess of rules-for-rules-sake, needless bureaucracy, and corporatised faffing around with the site, that collectively are taking their toll on the community.

This. 100x this.

Motors forum in the only reason I end up on here. There are some genuine genius' that lurk there. But the EV bandwagon is starting to destroy it

riffmongous

Skylinehead wrote: »

You almost certainly have RES then.

I don't think it's harder to read either, that obviously was not my point. Reddit stifles discussion in its own way.

As does Boards, in it's own ways. Make a post here where you go against the majority opinion and you'll be swarmed at least 10:1 in posts thankswhoring, then telling and explaining why you are wrong.

Skylinehead

riffmongous wrote: »

As does Boards, in it's own ways. Make a post here where you go against the majority opinion and you'll be swarmed at least 10:1 in posts thankswhoring, then telling and explaining why you are wrong.

The difference is the boards post is not hidden away.

Wibbs

KyussBeeshop wrote: »

Reddit for the 'Leave It The Fuck Alone' mod approach to interfering with discussion.

In contrast, Boards looks like it's being eaten alive from within, by a complex mess of rules-for-rules-sake, needless bureaucracy, and corporatised faffing around with the site, that collectively are taking their toll on the community.

More and more I'm feeling the same TBH. The moderate because I have to option. The clue is in the word; moderate. Apply a moderate hand to the tiller, not assume some silly control thing. Times have changed. A lot. It has always been a tendency in a minority, as has been the WTF? to it, but now more than ever people need to chill the hell out and embrace a moderate hands off approach.

Miike wrote: »

T
Motors forum in the only reason I end up on here. There are some genuine genius' that lurk there. But the EV bandwagon is starting to destroy it

To be fair M they're in their own sub forum now and having their now discussions and good luck to them.

Tar.Aldarion

I could read reddit forever, the sheer breath and depth to it is great, you get experts in so many topics too. There is a reason it's one of the biggest websites everywhere.

A site like boards is more for community which is different and great too, reddit is more interesting in general.

You can still get to know people on Reddit, when i was in the US I met somebody for dinner from there that I had chatted to online and had a great time. There are a lot of communities there too.

Here it's like you generally get to know what people are like more as you see them comment on lots of different topics, it's more specialised over there.

I'd say I use reddit 10 timers more than boards.

kupus

Skylinehead wrote: »

The difference is the boards post is not hidden away.

Not really. You are just given a red card so you cant post anymore.
Amd then you get banned from the thread and it is closed.

As for hidden away... i still remember the first immigration thread shunted off to the wilds of the humanities forum.


Mods hadnt a clue what to do with it.
Front page news in every country of europe and what does Irelands biggest forum do., hide it as far away as possible. Out of sight out of mind.

riffmongous

Skylinehead wrote: »

The difference is the boards post is not hidden away.

The end result is the same, discussion stifled, intentional or not. A lot of people won't bother very quickly once they get hit with that. Great if you want discussion with the diehards or on political topics, not so good for the ordinary internet user though

riffmongous

kupus wrote: »

Not really. You are just given a red card so you cant post anymore.
Amd then you get banned from the thread and it is closed.

As for hidden away... i still remember the first immigration thread shunted off to the wilds of the humanities forum.


Mods hadnt a clue what to do with it.
Front page news in every country of europe and what does Irelands biggest forum do., hide it as far away as possible. Out of sight out of mind.

The immigration threads stick in my mind, but they were the ones where I gave up posting because I was going against the majority anti-immigrant opinion. I'd get at least 5 replies to every post and after a while it gets wearying

The_Captain

This site is notorious for its heavy handed approach to moderation. I think that's the biggest thing killing it, aside from the fact the most bb style forums are dying now anyway

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RDM_83 again

The_Captain wrote: »

This site is notorious for its heavy handed approach to moderation. I think that's the biggest thing killing it, aside from the fact the most bb style forums are dying now anyway

user has received an infraction for this post

I don't like boards moderation but for a lot of the major subs on Reddit the moderation is probably worse.

I was banned from a default not meant to be politically aligned sub for example for simply saying that Snopes.com isn't a good source, the properly sh-tty thing about it was they deleted the comment where I provided some evidence to the view (but left up the first comment!)*

You get auto-banned from groups of subs if you post in other subs.

Even subs that are generally high quality such as AskHistorians have noticeable issues after you spend a while on them.
Easy example I just found but there is more subtle stuff that happens there that isn't so clear as the cull a lot of posts for not being up to standard.
http://i.imgur.com/KOYDL5U.png

* The good thing about Reddit though is that as in the case of that sub, people found new subs when the original one becomes too ridiculous

Skylinehead

Skylinehead wrote: »

The difference is the boards post is not hidden away.

You make it sound like it's hidden because of the opinion. It's at the bottom because other stuff was voted higher.


If you want to find dissenting opinion, you sort my controversial. That's usually where the real conversation takes place. At least there, people engage. When I was anti-Hillary here, I was just called a sexist racist bla and those people got thanked to the heavens. Attacking the poster instead of the post was fine once people thought I was pro-Trump.

Anyways, this thread comes up in AH once a year and I always do my best to tell people to try it. But there are too many people who refuse to give it a change because it's ugly.

Fact is boards.ie is the only site that gives me agro whereas Reddit has broadened my world knowledge considerably. My girlfriend is the same and uses it all the time on her phone.

I'm not even sure what brings me back to After Hours. It's one of the most serious places on the internet. Habit I guess. When a celebrity dies, here it's all serious like people knew the person. "RIP" in every post and it's just sad and morose. Reddit turns into a celebration of their lives with videos, trivia, quotes etc.

Mister Vain

I think Boards has a much nicer layout. Reddit just seems really messy and very difficult to read.

RedTie

Mister Vain wrote: »

I think Boards has a much nicer layout. Reddit just seems really messy and very difficult to read.

Get the Reddit app. I tried it for the first time recently and it made hours of waiting time at something I had to attend fly by.

The main newsfeed on it is copied by websites the world over once it hits Reddit. You may as well read it there first.

refusetolose

The_Captain wrote: »

This site is notorious for its heavy handed approach to moderation. I think that's the biggest thing killing it, aside from the fact the most bb style forums are dying now anyway

user has received an infraction for this post

that's being said for the last 10 years (the part in bold)

RedTie

KyussBeeshop wrote: »

Reddit for the 'Leave It The Fuck Alone' mod approach to interfering with discussion.

In contrast, Boards looks like it's being eaten alive from within, by a complex mess of rules-for-rules-sake, needless bureaucracy, and corporatised faffing around with the site, that collectively are taking their toll on the community.

Very well said.

If this was Reddit this post would probably be top of the thread.

Cienciano

Both have their uses, but Reddit is streets ahead. Come to a topic late on reddit and you can read the best replies. On boards, you come to a topic late and it has about 200 posts you can forget about it unless you have half an hour.
The amount of topics on reddit is unreal. Askreddit every day will leave me in stitches laughing. While boards has it's funny posts, they're few and far between and hard to find.
Boards is still useful, but not in the same league as reddit. You can't even say **** on boards! The moderation on boards is a bit over the top, I wouldn't even notice the mods on reddit.
Also, notifications when someone directly replies to you on reddit is very handy. Some people seem to think debate is dead there, but that notification feature makes it extremely easy imho.

OldMrBrennan83

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RedTie

Patww79 wrote: »

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The Ireland sub is not where Reddit shines at all. Go and subscribe to your favourite 5-10 topics, Movies, TV, GOT, whatever.

Then watch your feed come to life on the app.

OldMrBrennan83

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hidinginthebush

I like them both for different reasons, reddit gets a lit more traffic obviously.

I absolutely hate /r/Ireland though. The attitude there is very much pro Sinn Fein and everything they stand for so I avoid that place as much as I can. Everything elder on reddit is great and informative though

RedTie

Patww79 wrote: »

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You think the app is a mess?!

It's probably the best "general news and light stuff" app to waste some time there is.

OldMrBrennan83

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RedTie

Patww79 wrote: »

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Like a few on this thread, I think you're just doing it wrong.

OldMrBrennan83

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Miike

Patww79 wrote: »

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You can change the order in which is it displayed though, is what he means

the_pen_turner

how do you find these sub reddits

RedTie

Patww79 wrote: »

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You can put the posts in any order you want!

Old, New, Best, Top, Controversial etc. There's many options.

If you sort by "old" you'll read a Reddit thread in chronological order.

Sciprio

Reddit is a lot better and where i spent most of my time. It has more varied content and keeps me occupied whereas i find this site bland in comparison.