Reddit Metrics highlights popular and trending groups on Reddit
Reddit is a massive website that offers groups for any topic imaginable. If you want to share your shower thoughts, are a fan of 70s design or like to look at pictures of lazy cats, then you find a group for that on the site.
Chance is high that Reddit has groups for topics that you are interested in. It is rather difficult to find those on the site. While you could use the site's search for that or try your luck by by adding topicsw of interest to the url in the form reddit.com/r/thatsgreat, it is not the most comfortable thing to do.
Reddit Metrics is a site that highlights what is popular and trending on Reddit right now. You can use the site to list the most popular groups on Reddit -- hint it is not cats -- or check out trending charts instead.
If you are interested in a particular group, you can enter its name in the search at the top to get detailed stats about it.
You find listed the subscriber growth over time of it and the total number of subscribers. In addition to that, its rank is listed and milestones based on past trends. Milestones include passing a certain number of subscribers or being a trending group on the site.
The stats are mostly useful for moderators or admins of the group though and not users interested in the topic.
The front page of the service lists the fastest growing reddits of the day, last week and last month, as well as similar information for new reddits, new reddits that are trending and non-default reddits.
Those information alone can be valuable as you may use the information to discover new reddits that you did not know about before.
Note that there is no distinction between regular and adult groups so that it is best if you don't use the service at work or in public locations.
While the site itself displays textual information only, it does link to the groups on Reddit which means that you can click on them to be taken to that group.
Another interesting option provided by the site is its comparison feature. You can compare up to five subreddits to get each group's subscriber count visualized over time.
You can use it to find out which group is more popular on Reddit. Is Firefox or Chrome, Android or iOS, or cats or dogs more popular? It is important though that you pick the right subreddits for the comparison as you can only compare groups but not topics of interest (you cannot compare ios, iphone and ipad with android for example).
The site lacks direct links to Reddit. If you want to visit a group on the site you either have to open it manually or open the statistics page of it on Reddit Metrics to do so.
The second thing that is less than ideal is that it does not highlight NSFW groups.
Now You: are you a Reddit regular? If so, which SFW groups are you subscribed to?
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.