I agree that the main page of reddit has become pretty lame. However, I think that subreddits are still a good place to visit: http://programming.reddit.com/ or http://joel.reddit.com/.

I think if they had more subreddits it would help but a lot of people do not seem to know about them. I've heard many people complain about the same issue that did not know the existence of these subreddits.