Wait, does https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search not work? I mean, sure, it gives you a ton of random crap along with meaningful results, but in my experience it casts a wide enough net to have whatever you are looking for covered in the results.
I think a better use is the Map of Reddit (https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/) which shows links between reddit communities. Start from one you know you are interested in and bounce around exploring the nearby community, or zoom out and see the large community blocks.
Brilliant!
Love the idea, I've been thinking of adding a tree diagram or a social graph style exploration tool for subreddit finder, will likely add it soon so people can visualize their relationship and find similar subreddits based on a subreddit they already know.
Is this based on some sort of public reddit dataset or do they scrape all of reddit? I just did some searches but couldn't find any proper / official reddit data dumps. Does something like that exist?
Searching for 'soaring' or 'gliders' or even 'gliding' does not show up the biggest subreddit about this topic, which is r/Gliding - as far as I know pretty SFW. But it shows unrelated and even smaller subs such as r/tailwind.
Maybe something worth looking into as may affect other topics. (:
It would be nice if you could track what people search for and end up clicking on and use that to train your data. That said, makes it easier/possible to game the results.
please add a "submit" button. I ended up pressing the chat button instead because I didn't find any other button to press after entering my search term
Unpopular (?) opinion: marketing is killing the internet for absolutely no value to users.
At one point, we had communities of people, and discussions, and things were ok. Then came a mountain of commercial, automated, focused psyops against users: spaming, shilling, astoturfing, censoring, profiling, brigading, ab testing, engagement tracking, JS, ad auctions, eye tracking and on and on.
Reddit used to be a community and now it's dead site walking.
Fair point, our goal was not to help people spam reddit, instead, I think one should contribute to the community and share their expertise, focus on contributing first.
What you describe still exists, and with much more variety than what Old Reddit offered. All it takes is the time to seek out the right subreddits for your interests. Places like /r/askhistorians have no equivalent anywhere else on the internet.
The site may crumble under its own weight in the coming years, but it won't be because it offers no discussion.
[+] [-] mtmail|3 years ago|reply
The results only showed 'LaTeX' and 'me_irl' (a meme subreddit).
Good results for 'php', 'ruby', 'node', 'pascal', 'haskell'
[+] [-] dimitar|3 years ago|reply
[+] [-] data-leon|3 years ago|reply
It might be because of our training data, as perl gets less popular, our training data might simply not having enough good data. : )
[+] [-] vilaca|3 years ago|reply
Funnily enough r/k8s was not on the list.
[+] [-] nik736|3 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] app4soft|3 years ago|reply
[0] https://old.reddit.com/subreddits/search?q=CAD
[1] https://segue.co/subreddit/topic/CAD/
[+] [-] driscoll42|3 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] ksarw|3 years ago|reply
There are a couple different clients for it on GitHub
[+] [-] leonidasv|3 years ago|reply
Maybe something worth looking into as may affect other topics. (:
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[+] [-] LewisVerstappen|3 years ago|reply
This is an outrage
[+] [-] data-leon|3 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] llampx|3 years ago|reply
Not really relevant results.
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[+] [-] imglorp|3 years ago|reply
At one point, we had communities of people, and discussions, and things were ok. Then came a mountain of commercial, automated, focused psyops against users: spaming, shilling, astoturfing, censoring, profiling, brigading, ab testing, engagement tracking, JS, ad auctions, eye tracking and on and on.
Reddit used to be a community and now it's dead site walking.
[+] [-] data-leon|3 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Bakary|3 years ago|reply
The site may crumble under its own weight in the coming years, but it won't be because it offers no discussion.
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