Comment by thekevan | Hacker News Reader

Comment by thekevan | Hacker News Reader

My use of reddit is way own. I'm tired of going to the front page and seeing so many submissions about things I don't care about like multiple video games, dumb inside jokes like r/circlejerk or all those repetitive links about Trump or Sanders.

I know I can buy gold and customize the front page, but I am a little hesitant to pay money to make the front page not suck. I have ads turned on in my adblocker so they do get ad revenue from me, I'm not totally freeloading Also, there is a limitation to the number of subreddits you can exclude. That is the nail in the coffin right there for me buying gold.

Finally, I'm not impressed with some of the censorship and social policies they have and don't really want to support a business who seems to have either questionable or widely varying policies on things.

The result, I check it maybe once a day, down from several times a day.

> My use of reddit is way own. I'm tired of going to the front page and seeing so many submissions about things I don't care about

Why on Earth would you go to the Reddit frontpage? I stopped doing that like four years ago. Why not just create a Reddit account and avoid seeing the default subs on your frontpage? Reddit Gold has just about nothing to do with that.

It's still called the frontpage even if you're logged in.

But yes, when you're logged in you only see the subreddits that you're subscribed to.

Right, I thought it was clear from context that I was referring to the defaults frontpage.

The fact that the default view is terrible, and there's little to no guidance to tell you that you're not supposed to actually use it, is a huge part of Reddit's problems IMHO.

>Why not just create a Reddit account and avoid seeing the default subs on your frontpage?

I do have a reddit account, I have had several over the past 10 years. I look at my subscribed front page as well. However plenty of times there is a subreddit I didn't know about suddenly trending. If I just look at the subs I'm subscribed to, I'm kind of limiting myself to my current interests, I won't learn about new things in new subs.

You don't have to buy gold to customize the front page. Any account can customize subscriptions.

yeah. makes no sense to use reddit and not customize which subreddits you want to see. i mean, the major point of reddit is being able to curate what content you want to consume.

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