Reddit Is Testing Country-Specific Home Pages That Highlight 'Geo Popular' Content (ndtv.com) 49
Reader joshtops writes: Reddit is exploring a new way to make its front page more relevant to its readers. The social aggregation and discussion website is testing tailored home pages based on a reader's location in select places, Gadgets 360 spotted. The company has confirmed to us that it is indeed testing "geo popular" home pages. As part of the test, readers in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, and United Kingdom could see a banner when they visit Reddit.com informing them of the new home page. It's unclear if registered and signed in users are also a part of the experiment. Testing from India, in one case we found several stories from r/India and r/cricket (no surprise given the sport's popularity in the country) subreddits populate the home page. Reddit is also letting people switch the home page to any of the aforementioned country's home pages. Users also have the option to switch to the global -- universal -- home page. In a statement, a Reddit spokesperson told Gadgets 360, "We've been testing new geo-based popular feeds as a way to surface more relevant content to users based on their location," reserving any timeframe for when -- and if -- Reddit plans to roll-out this feature to all its users. "We'll be adjusting as we receive feedback from users," the spokesperson added, reaffirming that users will be "able to toggle locations to see popular posts in other geographical areas or globally."
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Slashdot is suffering from a lot of troll moderation these days. Something needs to change.
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On Reddit, your post would be deleted for disturbing the circle jerk. Here it will just be modded down.
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I'm not a fan of creamer, but I have to say, he has high-quality naysayers.
"front page of the internet" (Score:2, Insightful)
"The front page of the internet" no more.
"The front page of your market segment."
There it is.
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Yes, but now it will be geoptimized clickbait! Maybe it will even get regional. Soon you won't even have to know about things other people click on, the stuff you'll see online will be things the other cool members of the PTA "get". Think global, whine local.
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Reddit already customizes their home page. I subscribe to /r/rtlsdr and I get articles from that small subreddit on my main page. This change seems to be just like an automatic subscription to /r/australia and /r/melbourne which I can turn off if I like.
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The front page of my Internet is an RSS viewer. It has been for some time and will be for some time.
Add IPV6 (Score:1)
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Phone numbers are the real internet. I don't know why we even bother with IP addresses.
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Why? Everyone knows IPv4 is the real internet. IPv6 is a third world wankernet full of poor people
I'd say the correlation between technical abilities of a site's owner and IPv6 support is really high.
dig -t aaaa slashdot.org -- hmm...
I'm there already (Score:2)
Eh, I already have this.
Everywhere has it's own sub and I'm subscribed to my town's sub. So I get local news. But it's labeled as such.
In general I'd say leave this sort of homepage tweaking up to the user. Power to the people and all that.
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But do you use bookmarks to read these subscribed subReddits or something? My home page's top monthlies show random every XX minutes.
I wonder about Christmas Island specific content. (Score:2)
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That's a rabbit hole no one wants to go down.
Clickbait hell (Score:1)
Not a true measure of popular. (Score:2, Insightful)
It's a misleading measure of what is "popular".
If it is deemed "controversial", or simply against the interests of admins, it's excluded.
Terrible Idea (Score:1)
I absolutely hate this "feature" on news sites. When I visit an american paper I want to see what the americans are reading, not some shitty watered down version of my own country's news.
Do not want "Geo Popular Content" (Score:5, Insightful)
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You got a population of 11 million people. You will do fine. Unless its per commune/county, in which case... yeah, it will such for anywhere not central.
Or you will just get shitty French export, being Mini France already.
I also wonder if it will be a segregated horror show for Norway/Sweden/Denmark, of it will be segregated into their capitals and large cities.
Bad decision after bad decision (Score:4, Interesting)
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Yeah I didn't understand why reddit was interesting until I started diving deep. This is sure to make it more difficult for people to be talking about the same thing. Which is the entire fucking point of reddit!
Total decoy!! (Score:1)
This my dear friends (Score:2)
Is what we call the "beginning of the end".
Every "front page of the Internet" we've ever had fails once they start overcomplicating things. Unfortunately they haven't yet reached the "death throes", but I've got popcorn ready for when they do.
Wrong (Score:2)
People who go to reddit want to see what's popular on reddit.
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It's all fun and games until some powerful nation forces extradition and takes you from your home country.