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Wondering what to read over the weekend or during your coffee break? Our readers are sharing their favorite Reddit subreddits: Warning! They can be highly addictive time-wasters!
A. Ryan Bozeman (Founder)
I can't stop checking out /r/TrueFilm.
Trying to use the mobile Reddit page can be a real pain. You are severely limited on features, and the huge amount of data can overload your browser. Which is why so many iOS users are going a different route and trying Alien Blue, a Reddit client.
How It Works
While it has been slowly creeping into the online consciousness for quite some time, Reddit really exploded on the scene about two years ago. It all started before that point, when Digg redesigned their site and it proved to be the nail in the coffin for many users who had long since felt alienated. They needed a new place, and from there Reddit clawed its way to the top and has been getting stronger ever since.
It is the ideal place for those looking to share content in a community run setting. The ability to upvote or downvote what is posted, along with the ownership of subreddits by any user who creates them, is a big change to the elitist mentality of many other vote centric sites of the past. Which is probably why it can now live up to its slogan, claiming to be the "front page of the Internet". For many, it is.
Here is a quick guide for the average geek that is thinking of jumping on the bandwagon and discovering the joys of Reddit for themselves.
Jimmyr is your ultimate web-based source of geek news collected from all over the web broken into handy sections and tabs:
Just bookmark it and scan daily during your coffee break!
With recent contention over SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) the popular communal news site, Reddit, will be shutting down on January 18, 2012. Don’t worry, however, the website will be back to its normal functioning form come January 19, just like it always has been and hopefully always will be.
Now, shutting down a website for a day doesn’t seem like much, but this demonstration will lose Reddit thousands of dollars in what would have been their advertisement revenue and other profits. The owners of Reddit have decided to make this statement to protest both SOPA and PIPA – two bills currently in the U.S. Senate. If these bills are passed, the internet in the U.S. may approach major censorship – similar to what we can see in China. Reddit’s main goal in shutting down for the day is to help spread the word that SOPA and PIPA will have very negative effects on what is today’s online community.
Furthermore, they are hoping that other major internet companies (Google, Wikipedia, etc.) will join in on the January 18th blackout to spread the message to more non-tech-savvy Internet users.
What do you think? Will Reddit be the only major website shutting down on January 18th, or will Google and Wikipedia also join in on the protest?
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Anna Fox