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View submission: Introducing r/popular
Why are special "subreddits", like all and popular, even in the same namespace as standard/user-made ones? Why not have... I dunno /s/all, or any other letter that's not already used?
Sounds like asking for trouble, sooner or later you might run into clashing issues.
Plus it makes it harder to differentiate whenever a subreddit is special, or just trying to trick its users that it is.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 20:49 UTC*
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Comment by 7LPdWcaW at 15/02/2017 at 20:32 UTC
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I'd say probably consistency, they want users to have the same feeling for all, also to prevent /r/all say getting mixed up with /s/all.
Comment by algysidfgoa87hfalsjd at 15/02/2017 at 21:25 UTC
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Sounds like asking for trouble, sooner or later you might run into clashing issues.
Going the other way you rely on users to know which one the "real" ?/popular is, which is also asking for trouble.
Comment by concernedandannoyed at 15/02/2017 at 22:46 UTC
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It'll get confusing with an /r/popular and an /s/popular, etc.
Comment by madronedorf at 16/02/2017 at 14:34 UTC
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You don't want there to be both official and user subreddits with the same name. Would lead to a lot of confusion.
I remember in the early days of the web, whitehouse.com was a porn site. Which obviously got a lot of traffic from people trying to go to whitehouse.gov. (incidentally, including my 5th grade teacher. Oops). You'd see something similar.
Comment by TheAppleFreak at 15/02/2017 at 21:42 UTC
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I'd guess for API compatibility, so accessing those pages uses the same interface as everything else.