Reddit is turning 20 years and I wrote about what it needed to do in order to be successful in the next 5 years.
However, there is another aspect to the website that will make it better.
This idea is Better Community Search.
Reddit has many communities, but it is difficult to see where they are. Many of the most popular communities are pretty easy to find. Their names are pretty simple to type into the address bar and send your browser there. However, as the site has grown in these past 20 years, the communities have only grown in size. However, the site’s internal search engine is pretty bad at searching for communities.
The site also has another feature which I dislike. It is this “recommendation” system which recommends subreddits based on interest.
However, upon closer inspection, there is a sense that the people running Reddit are not interested in actually making it work anymore. It’s all about the advertising now. YouTube has been heavily promoting advertising but they still remember the nature of what people went to the site in 2005; they went there because of the videos not the ads.
Having a better way to search communities on Reddit would greatly help the site.
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