47 upvotes, 6 direct replies (showing 6)
View submission: Introducing r/popular
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 simbawulf at 16/02/2017 at 17:27 UTC
13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This helps new communities because now r/popular is the default for logged out users, so subs that make it to r/popular based on votes, get much more traffic. r/all is not a default landing page for any logged out users, but rather, is navigated to deliberately by people who know about it and use it.
Comment by zmilla93 at 16/02/2017 at 03:07 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
By removing some of the most frequent/popular subreddits, it gives every other subreddit still included an easier time getting to the top of the page.
If you enter a race then remove several of the fastest runners, your likelihood of winning increases.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/02/2017 at 03:35 UTC*
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by ParanoydAndroid at 16/02/2017 at 03:14 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's not meant to help new communities. Remember, it's a replacement for the front page, not for /r/all, and the front page right now is a defined, relatively immutable set of extremely large subs.
Now it's a shifting set of a much larger group. So *more* subs will be on the front page, and they'll be new *to the front page*, but there won't necessarily be new subs on the front page, just like there aren't any now.
Comment by da_chicken at 16/02/2017 at 03:34 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I think it's mostly meant to help retain new users. The filtered subreddits are often toxic or otherwise unwelcoming. /r/popular won't have that problem.
However, /r/popular will also be filtering out a lot of very, well, popular subreddits. Without that competition, remaining subreddits will reach the front page more easily.
Comment by ReallyForeverAlone at 15/02/2017 at 20:52 UTC
-6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Because it doesn't have T_D!