https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5u9pl5/introducing_rpopular/
created by simbawulf on 15/02/2017 at 19:36 UTC
29642 upvotes, 101 top-level comments (showing 25)
Hi folks!
Back in the day, the original version of the front page looked an awful lot like r/all. In fact, it *was* r/all. But, when we first released the ability for users to create subreddits[1], those new, nascent communities had trouble competing with the larger, more established subreddits which dominated the top of the front page. To mitigate this effect, we created the notion of the defaults, in which we *cherry picked* a set of subreddits to appear as a default set, which had the effect of editorializing Reddit.
1: https://redditblog.com/2008/03/12/make-your-own-reddit/
Over the years, Reddit has grown up, with hundreds of millions of users and tens of thousands of active communities, each with enormous reach and great content. Consequently, the “defaults” have received a disproportionate amount of traffic, and made it difficult for new users to see the rest of Reddit. We, therefore, are trying to make the Reddit experience more inclusive by launching r/popular, which, like r/all, opens the door to allowing more communities to climb to the front page.
Existing logged in users will still maintain their subscriptions.**
2: https://i.redd.it/vxybnlltm2gy.gif
Thanks, we hope you enjoy this new feature!
Comment by TrouserTorpedo at 16/02/2017 at 15:28 UTC
271 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Can we please just have a filter that filters out all political subreddits?
/r/The_Donald doesn't annoy me because it's Trump, it annoys me because it's politics. I don't want other people shoving their political opinion down my throat. The kind of political discussion that happens on Reddit is not the kind of political discussion I like engaging in. /r/politics is stressful to read. /r/The_Donald is stressful to read. I want to wipe it all and click on cat pictures.
I come to Reddit to de-stress. I have specific subreddits I go to for debate but I don't go to /r/all to find that kind of stuff. I go to those subreddits. If it weren't for specific subreddits that give me things I can't find elsewhere on the Internet, I would have quit Reddit by now. The constant political anger just isn't worth it. Political posts inevitably get more upvotes than they deserve because people upvote them for visibility - rather than because they like the post.
This is nice and all but it doesn't solve the problem. It just means I have one-sided political debate clogging up my feed, rather than an /r/all which is free from that full stop.
Comment by addaone at 15/02/2017 at 19:40 UTC
1345 upvotes, 3 direct replies
So was /r/popular an active subreddit before this or was it reserved ahead of time?
Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 19:39 UTC*
3867 upvotes, 4 direct replies
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Comment by mintsponge at 15/02/2017 at 19:41 UTC
11781 upvotes, 5 direct replies
So, just to confirm, the point of this is to basically have a SFW /r/all without those spam subreddits and no need to keep filtering new ones? Good stuff.
Comment by D0cR3d at 15/02/2017 at 19:41 UTC*
1583 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Subbies not included in /r/Popular:
Please reply here with subs I am missing
A list from last weeks annoucement
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Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 19:58 UTC*
756 upvotes, 3 direct replies
So why still have people auto-subscribed to the 50 "defaults" anymore? If I'm used to seeing /r/popular as a logged out user, then I would create a new account and instantly see an entirely different page than I'm used to, which is jarring. Why not make /r/popular the default for all newly created accounts from now forward, and only change that (or better yet, have it be a toggle-able option) once they actually manually start subscribing to subs for themselves?
I'm thinking that logged in users should have a nice visible switch at the top of their front page to toggle between "popular" and "subscribed". Then you can eliminate the whole concept of defaults entirely.
Edit: To clarify, it wouldn't automatically switch your front page to "subscribed" once you subscribed to anything. It would stay as /r/popular until you manually switched it.
Comment by blackburn009 at 15/02/2017 at 19:47 UTC
359 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Where's r/mildlypopular with posts with a few upvotes but not too many
Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 19:39 UTC*
1040 upvotes, 6 direct replies
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Comment by griff431 at 15/02/2017 at 19:40 UTC
2241 upvotes, 4 direct replies
A handful of subreddits that users consistently filter out of their r/all page.
So /r/the_Donald then. Got it.
Comment by turtl3rs at 15/02/2017 at 20:27 UTC
183 upvotes, 5 direct replies
When will this be available to view for mobile users? I'm using the official iOS Reddit app and am unable to go to /r/popular as it doesn't load.
Edit: Same applies to the mobile browser version.
Comment by ShaneH7646 at 15/02/2017 at 20:34 UTC
44 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Over the years, Reddit has grown up, with hundreds of millions of users and tens of thousands of active communities, each with enormous reach and great content. Consequently, the “defaults” have received a disproportionate amount of traffic, and made it difficult for new users to see the rest of Reddit. We, therefore, are trying to make the Reddit experience more inclusive by launching r/popular, which, like r/all, opens the door to allowing more communities to climb to the front page.
How exactly does this help new communities? As far as I can tell it's just r/all -a few subs.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 20:42 UTC
220 upvotes, 4 direct replies
... the “defaults” have received a disproportionate amount of traffic, and made it difficult for new users to see the rest of Reddit. We, therefore, are trying to make the Reddit experience more inclusive by launching r/popular, which, like r/all, opens the door to allowing more communities to climb to the front page.
As I scroll down /r/popular all I see are posts from subreddits with 100,000+ subscribers. How exactly does this allow for smaller subreddits to gain more traction?
Comment by jungletigress at 15/02/2017 at 19:47 UTC
172 upvotes, 1 direct replies
While I like the move, I think for transparency's sake, it'd be good to have a list of subs being filtered.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/02/2017 at 00:08 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by semsr at 15/02/2017 at 19:46 UTC
66 upvotes, 2 direct replies
How are posts eligible to show up “popular”?
First, a post must have enough votes to show up on the front page in the first place. Post from the following types of communities will not show up on “popular”:
NSFW and 18+ communities Communities that have opted out of r/all A handful of subreddits that users consistently filter out of their r/all page
So.... besides having enough votes to show up on the front page, how are posts eligible to show up on "popular"?
Comment by TheUrgeToRun at 15/02/2017 at 19:51 UTC
68 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Say I also want to get access to more diverse subs, but don't want to sift through /r/all - is it possible to subscribe to /r/popular, and have it filter my subscribed subs automatically?
This would allow me to have the occasional crop of new subs seep through, and broaden my horizons, while still maintaing the core of my feed.
Comment by Hecateus at 15/02/2017 at 19:45 UTC
75 upvotes, 3 direct replies
So now we just need /r/unpopular. should still be NSFW free ...'cause of reasons.
Comment by Arsenic_Flames at 15/02/2017 at 22:14 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Will it be possible to selectively choose which subs are filtered out?
I love the idea of a clean /r/all with less politics and low quality content, but I'm a gamer, and I'd like to also browse subs like /r/overwatch and /r/globaloffensive, both of which were filtered out of the "popular" list.
Will I be able to include posts from subs that didn't make the "popular" list in my /r/popular?
EDIT: Also, Some subs specific to certain games were included in the list (/r/CitiesSkylines) But it appears that some of the most active gaming subs are not included (/r/leagueoflegends /r/globaloffensive /r/overwatch /r/Rainbow6 /r/DotA2 /r/hearthstone etc...)
Is it possible that game specific subs with less activity (/r/CitiesSkylines /r/zelda) are included in /r/popular because they don't show up on /r/all enough for people to bother with filtering them?
Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 22:48 UTC*
41 upvotes, 0 direct replies
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^0.2228
Comment by MoKenna at 15/02/2017 at 19:38 UTC
60 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Finally, anyone can be popular.
Comment by GregariousJB at 15/02/2017 at 21:10 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
A handful of subreddits that users consistently filter out of their r/all page [will not be included]
Comment by Hronk at 15/02/2017 at 21:45 UTC
13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Why not release the list of subreddits banned from /r/popular?
Comment by hSix-Kenophobia at 15/02/2017 at 22:17 UTC
71 upvotes, 1 direct replies
What is the purpose of /r/Popular? It seems like it is essentially /r/All, but the Admins (and Reddit at large) are now just editorializing what they want users to see. Better yet, it's done with no transparency. Thus, we are seeing what the Admins (with some unknown filters applied) see as "Popular". Seems fucking stupid, to be quite honest.
Comment by spearstuff at 15/02/2017 at 21:21 UTC*
121 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Will /r/popular change it's "filtered" list periodically? I don't like seeing /r/politics in my feed and had to filter it out of /r/popular because this new algorithm seems to favor it being on the front page more than in the past. If enough people filter controversial subreddits like /r/politics will it become removed from the /r/popular site for everyone?
Comment by paintedpelican at 28/02/2017 at 20:57 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Im on mobile and r/all does not show up. Pls fix!
