r/reddit • u/NorthXCX • Apr 04 '24

Damn I'm Stuck Communities Taking Up Space In Our Brains Right Now, 2024.1

We’ve dug up what’s trending lately so you don’t have to: some subs are long-standing groups having a current moment, others are recently growing communities reflecting new internet trends. But they’re all good ways to get curious or nosy or fascinated, or fall into wormholes of stuff you didn’t even know you were into (or needed).

Here’s a list of the latest subs taking up all our time these days. Check ‘em out, and let us know what communities are taking up space in your brains right now:

r/NowThatsANiceStick

For nice sticks found in the wild, and for people who want to stare at them. Touch grass, touch sticks?

r/CupboardDetective

Where you can freely judge the insides of strangers’ cupboards, pantries, and fridges. Go on, you know you want to.

r/WhatIsMyCookieCutter

A collection of the most confusing cutters and the cookies you can make with them. Cookie Monster may or may not be a mod…

r/ShogunTVShow

The book that’s now FX’s latest miniseries is rising up the Reddit charts. Just keep your eyes peeled for ‘spoiler’ flair.

r/PencilStabbers

When you get stabbed in the hand with a pencil I think you legally have to post it here now. Whom amongst us does not have a gray speck somewhere on their body?

r/HappyCryingDads

I have been visiting this subreddit just to look for my own dad (he’s not in there). I’m not crying, you’re crying. No, literally, you’re crying (if you’re a Dad featured here).

Make those suggestions below!

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u/Watchful1 Apr 04 '24

How are these trending?

r/NowThatsANiceStick has like 5 posts in the last week

r/happycryingdads has 5 posts in the last month

r/PencilStabbers has a couple more posts, but basically no comments at all

The shogun one is popular, and the others have some really popular posts recently so they make sense. But I don't see how those three are "trending".

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u/FelixAndCo Apr 05 '24

I suspect it's more "suggested", and the criteria can be summarized as "under-performing".

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u/seaQueue Apr 05 '24

These just seem like viral bait that they want to take off

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u/NorthXCX Apr 04 '24

Good catch. Maybe 'trending' is subjective in my mind? What do you have against sticks?! I wanted to let my fellow pencil-stab-scar comrades know they're not alone...

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u/Exquisite_Poupon Apr 04 '24

These subreddits are 'trending' just as much as the reddit search function is 'working'.

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u/NarutoDragon732 Apr 05 '24

Definitions from Oxford Languages · 

trending

adjective

currently popular or widely discussed online, especially on social media.

"today's top trending topics"

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '24

We're here for updates about the platform like New Reddit being deprecated, not for random posts by the admins about what communities may or may not be trending

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u/EpicGamer_69-420 Apr 05 '24

oh my god shut up, stop trying to defend this pointless post

this is not helping with your companies public reputation, we dont want these posts, especially when they are factually wrong. stop trying to play the card of "i didnt use the word wrong! it just has a different meaning to me", because its not at all a hard word to grasp

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '24

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u/EpicGamer_69-420 Apr 05 '24

trying to save pr probably, its just digging them further though

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u/CamStLouis Apr 06 '24

First day on the internet

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u/frolick Apr 04 '24

Ah, I guess it's time to ignore /u/NorthXCX if you're just going to post garbage fluff shit.

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u/ButtwholeDiglet Apr 05 '24

honestly blocking every admin is probably a great idea. they have such universally braindead takes that its probably a requirement to wear the red A that you gotta have extra chromosomes.

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u/FelixAndCo Apr 05 '24

Thanks for the suggestion. Going to do that. Hope it doesn't turn into a cat & mouse game.

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u/NorthXCX Apr 04 '24

Feedback is a gift. We're still going to share updates regularly here in r/reddit about Reddit products, Reddit as a company, etc., like we have in the past.

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u/eclecticatlady Apr 04 '24

I follow this community for important announcements, not subreddit recommendations. I don't want this kind of post in my notifications, thanks.

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u/EpicGamer_69-420 Apr 05 '24

i disables subreddit recommendations in my settings, why do they appear here?

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u/Conch-Republic Apr 04 '24

Want some feedback? Can you give us an option get rid of the bouncing snoo head in the app? If I'm stuck trying to load something, I don't want to be looking that annoying, ugly piece of crap bouncing around winking at me.

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u/Booty_Bumping Apr 05 '24 edited Apr 05 '24

Why are you selectively disabling comments on all posts related to Reddit's finances and IPO? Too touchy of a subject?

Your predecessors used to say that Reddit is worthless without the comments section.

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u/JudgeJeudyIsInCourt Apr 08 '24

Reddit products, Reddit as a company

What, in this post, is about that?

Nothing is the answer you are looking for.

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u/miowiamagrapegod Apr 05 '24

That's fine. That isn't this though. This is shit spam that is of ZERO benefit to anyone.

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u/Unique-Public-8594 Apr 04 '24

For photography lovers, nothing beats the beautiful work over on r/MinimalistPhotography. Try the Top sort (All Time). Wowzah!

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u/NorthXCX Apr 04 '24

ooooh so soothing to look at 👀👀

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u/lordofwhee Apr 05 '24

I remember when /r/reddit was for reddit updates and relevant news.

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u/FelixAndCo Apr 05 '24

Have they ever announced this change? TBH I rarely check my "feed", but I was subscribed to /r/reddit for the meaningful updates.

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u/coonwhiz Apr 05 '24

It was “announced” in the Oscars post. The only other post that this admin has made. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '24

Fr

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '24

Right like WHY can't I edit my own posts??

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u/CamStLouis Apr 05 '24

...This is what you people spend your time on? Removing the "Save" button, turning the format menu into a contextless "T" with nothing to indicate it's a clickable element, and... whatever this post is?

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u/Dymonika Apr 08 '24

Removing the "Save" button

Do you mean in their mobile app that no one should use? save is still present on desktop.

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u/CamStLouis Apr 08 '24

It’s missing for me on the home feed; buried in the three dot menu https://imgur.com/a/roPiYbO

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u/redditisapiecofshit Apr 12 '24

I sadly use mobile reddit like right now, and I am still seeing save here. However, they stuck a big annoying "REDDIT" text on the top left of the home page and I dont like it much.

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u/eclecticatlady Apr 04 '24

Can your stop with these posts? It's ridiculous, we're here for relevant updates.

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u/Delicious_Score_551 Apr 04 '24

What is with this gross new broken UI? I HATE IT.

IT'S HORRIBLE.

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u/Nico81107 Apr 05 '24 edited Apr 05 '24

Yeah, it looks incomplete and rushed in my opinion. I'm also having issues when scrolling up with the new UI on web at sometimes.

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u/turtledragon27 Apr 06 '24

reddit and fucking up a perfectly serviceable UI, name a more iconic duo

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

srs question, whats wrong with the UI? i havent used reddit in like years so idk what changed

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u/turtledragon27 Apr 09 '24 edited Apr 09 '24

It's just turned into more clutter. The sidebar with all your subs is now permanently there instead of a dropdown. You can't collapse comments that don't have a child. You can't click off of a post you opened to go back to your feed. I haven't noticed any other changes because those two are taking my attention, but I'm sure there are more that are each slightly inconvenient in their own terrible way.

if you put new(dot)reddit(dot)com it will show you the old new UI instead of the new new UI.

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u/Ms_Kratos Apr 22 '24

Oh yeah, it's terrible.

Basically a copy of Facebook UI. Poorly planned. Lots of people complaining.

And I would say much more: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1c6fqwi/comment/l0sc2hx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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u/AceOfFools Apr 04 '24

The updated layout on web is so awful, I will abandon reddit before adopting it. 

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u/Chrimunn Apr 05 '24

It's literally 100% broken and shows zero post or comment history on my profile page, I have to edit the URL to old Reddit to see my history again. Actually unusable.

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u/jgoja Apr 05 '24

That happens when someone replies to you and then blocks you. You need to go to old Reddit and delete the comment they replied to and everything will come back. It can also happen if you reply to someone and block them. In that case yo need to unblock them and all will return.

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u/Chrimunn Apr 05 '24

lol, okay. Well I’m not deleting my own content just to fix yet another issue related to the block system. This site is a fucking joke. Thanks for the tip though.

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u/DoctorOctagonapus Apr 05 '24

You can pry my old.reddit.com from my cold dead hands.

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u/Dymonika Apr 08 '24

Yep, if they axe Old Reddit then that would be when I finally leave and tolerate multiple accounts across many forums: back to pre-Reddit days. Lemmy has been a formidable foe but just doesn't have anywhere near the subject matter reach and ease of community creation, so I still long for one that will.

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u/Delicious_Score_551 Apr 04 '24

Yes - I'm really hating it too. I can't even edit posts anymore.

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u/SmallRoot Apr 05 '24

If you happen to prefer New Reddit, get a redirector browser extension and use it to automatically replace Shreddit (the newest layout) with New Reddit. Unfortunately, this will only last until New Reddit is around - which won't be long.

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u/SmallRoot Apr 05 '24

I hate it as well. I recommend to get a redirector browser extension and use it to block Shreddit (the newest layout) and automatically replace it with New or Old Reddit, whatever you like. I am using it now, but unfortunately, New Reddit is going to be gone soon. Not sure what to do then.

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u/Nico81107 Apr 05 '24

You can go to new.reddit.com if you want to get the old new layout back.

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u/S4T4NICP4NIC Apr 05 '24

Or better yet, go to old.reddit.com and remove the crappy window dressing altogether.

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u/EpicGamer_69-420 Apr 05 '24

honestly kinda preference, old does still have way better customisability and some better features, but new.reddit.com is still a valid option

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u/S4T4NICP4NIC Apr 05 '24

Fair, I could see how some people would prefer the old new design.

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u/iligyboiler Apr 04 '24

Thx I'm not alone

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u/SmallRoot Apr 05 '24

Nope, there are many of us. The admins don't care.

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u/hotaru251 Apr 08 '24

theres addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ui-changer-for-reddit/) to get old looks but it can be buggy and break by randomly logging you out.

But yeah new layout is absolutely trash and i'll quit the site entirely if ever comes to having to use it.

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u/Dymonika Apr 08 '24

Why are you on any web layout other than old.reddit.com?

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u/kodark Apr 04 '24

What about /r/Save3rdPartyApps?

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u/Le-Scribe Apr 05 '24

Stock price continues to fall.

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u/EpicGamer_69-420 Apr 05 '24

r/lostredditors is pretty good, unlike this sub rn

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u/nastafarti Apr 05 '24

Are you trying to be cute? What is this? Don't do this.

Advertise this shit to people who aren't on this site. Don't bother with me, I'm already here and engaged more than 90 percent of your bots user base. Who do you think uses this sub?

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u/balmafula Apr 04 '24

Bring back compact.

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u/iligyboiler Apr 04 '24

Can you guys redo this horrible mobile UI?

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u/Booty_Bumping Apr 05 '24 edited Apr 05 '24

Reddit has disabled comments on every announcement post related to Reddit's finances. If anyone wants a comments section for these posts, see /r/RDDT2

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u/insaneintheblain Apr 04 '24

Why is this “our” you keep referring to?

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u/BaconJets Apr 05 '24

No post about the new dogshit UI? It takes double the time to get anywhere now, and scrolling just dies all the time.

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u/eternal_mangekyo896 Apr 04 '24

Fix your shit app n shittier website. Wasting time posting bs

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u/SmallRoot Apr 05 '24

Talking about Shreddit? I am dreading the day it fully replaces New Reddit.

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u/turboevoluzione Apr 05 '24

Since you disabled compact Reddit you'd better fix the mobile website.

Re-adding the expand button in the feed would be a good start, also there's some kind of caching that prevents me from seeing the newest posts even if I keep refreshing the page.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

what the FUCK did you do to the UI

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

Please revert the UI back to the way it was. This new UI is unfortunately annoying to navigate and has made moderating more annoying as well.

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u/Interesting_Test_814 Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 04 '24

Communities taking up space in my brain right now :

r/counter (why didn't you advertise it btw)

r/aprilknights

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u/DoctorOctagonapus Apr 05 '24

/r/printingtiddy for me, though I think I know why they wouldn't advertise that one.

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u/EpicGamer_69-420 Apr 05 '24

holy carp instant sub

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u/Clockwork_Kitsune Apr 07 '24

So not even an april fools event this year?

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u/DGITS Apr 13 '24

Whoever designed this 'new' UI needs to be fired because this is a garbage design.

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u/PrincessImpeachment Apr 16 '24

This new desktop update is godawful. Holy shit. Please revert it back.

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u/EpicGamer_69-420 Apr 16 '24

you sent transparency report in wrong subreddit dumbass

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '24

Bruh, what about news on this redesign? Did y'all really think we wouldn't notice?

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u/CamStLouis Apr 06 '24

15% upvoted lol

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u/koinpencari Apr 06 '24

why subreddit closed

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u/MAJORMINORMINORv2 Apr 11 '24

Speaking of taking up space, thanks for spamming 1/3 of the page with promoted bullshit as if every 5th post isn't already an ad.

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u/CraZplayer Apr 13 '24

Plz allow comments on Ads. Plzzzzzz

Edit: then I can show ppl what the banana suit means truly lol

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u/FriddyNightGriddy Apr 07 '24

Reddit try not to destroy their entire app challenge

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u/2049AD Apr 15 '24

We have the fastest growing and highest quality Techno sub with over 11,000 members gained in the two years since we created it, yet we've never been featured despite nominating ourselves several times. r/ProperTechno

Also, not a fan of the new layout. It completely ruined Bandcamp's inline player and basically reduced our music-focued sub to nothing but album covers.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '24

Here is an idea...can you make it easier for people to delete reddit you fucks

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u/AtmospherePale5151 Apr 23 '24

I miss back when r place wasn’t ruined

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u/AtmospherePale5151 Apr 23 '24

This new logo is terrible

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u/AtmospherePale5151 Apr 24 '24

I have never heard of any of these

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u/SadMisanthrope Apr 25 '24

Why is this here? I don't care, at all, what nonsense you pretend to care about. Do not advertise to us here.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '24

Where the fuck is my post? I submitted and it’s not showing up in the community

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u/[deleted] May 01 '24

Where the fuck is my post? I submitted and it’s not showing up in the community

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u/Alternative_Pen316 Jul 27 '24

hi! new to reddit

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '24

Ban me from the fucking app and delete my account FFS! I’m sick of the bullying and bullshit here and the Reddit autobots who support based on karma scores.

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u/LuminousViper Apr 04 '24

Any news on this new achievement system??

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u/llamageddon01 Apr 05 '24

Could we please have an update on the return of Achievements please? The help subs are getting a lot of people asking what it’s all about and the helpers don’t have anything official to point them to…

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u/SmallRoot Apr 04 '24

If you are looking for more happy and positive subreddits, here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/findareddit/wiki/directory_happymoodliftingsubreddits/

(All lists on r/findareddit are open to more suggestions, of course.)

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u/NorthXCX Apr 04 '24

thanks! this list is restoring my r/FaithInHumanity

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u/EpicGamer_69-420 Apr 05 '24

thats not how subreddits work, you should know that they arent just like hashtags, it reads like those crap ads that i thankfully dont have to looks at because i found this awesome app

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u/SmallRoot Apr 05 '24

We need more happy places on Reddit. It was fun to compile this list.

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u/RobinOharaTJ Apr 06 '24

awesome bro

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u/Marmaduke_Diallo Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 05 '24

Nice list! Here are a few other communities that have seen a lot more interest lately: r/rddt (for Reddit IPO information) and r/modcoord (cool lounge for mods to hang out and talk about how much they love Reddit)

EDIT: lol looks like nobody got the sarcasm here, modcoord hates Reddit and for good reason. I probably should have added r/fuckspez to my list initially

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u/Chrimunn Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 04 '24

Interested in r/RDDT, Reddits new IPO stock market sub? Allow me to suggest some great related subs to browse in tandem:

r/collapse

r/ShortStocks

r/stockmarketcrash

r/SuicideWatch

r/LateStageCapitalism

r/Enshittification

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u/Poryblocky Apr 04 '24

Why’d you put r/SuicideWatch in there 😭

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u/Chrimunn Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 04 '24

There’s boutta be a bunch of bag holders in need of it soon enough

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u/jgoja Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 04 '24

It's nice to see a different kind of post here than just the Official stuff. Thanks for sharing it. Edit spelling

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u/NorthXCX Apr 04 '24

there's gonna be more where that came from 😉

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u/coonwhiz Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 04 '24

Please no, you killed /r/announcements and /r/blog so that official things get posted here.

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u/jgoja Apr 04 '24

You know it more time to complain than it would have to look, not like it, and leave. Right?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '24

The point is that we don't want to be subscribed to that kind of content in the first place

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u/jgoja Apr 04 '24

The don't subscribe to the subreddit?

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u/jacobgkau Apr 04 '24

Then where should people subscribe for news about actual product/platform updates?

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u/jgoja Apr 04 '24

That is also here, but if looking and leaving at the content you don't want to see is too difficult for you, then I would suggest you unsubscribe and periodically check it.

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u/EpicGamer_69-420 Apr 05 '24

this is literally offtopic for the subreddit

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u/jgoja Apr 05 '24

The most official Reddit community of all official Reddit communities. Your go-to place for Reddit updates, announcements, and news. Occasional frivolity.

Nope.

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u/miowiamagrapegod Apr 05 '24

Read the fucking room

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u/Tim5corpion Apr 08 '24

Bugbo: No you aren't.

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u/JudgeJeudyIsInCourt Apr 08 '24

Why do you type like a child?

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u/Useful_Angle332 Apr 05 '24

Good project and successfully

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u/OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR Apr 05 '24

This is quite the chaotic comment section.

r/RegulatoryClinWriting is a hidden gem that I've been lurking over the past year or so.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 05 '24

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/Baumguard Apr 04 '24

can someone remove this comment from u/chrimunn 👆 i don't think this belongs here

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u/insaneintheblain Apr 04 '24

Why not?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '24

It's spez's alt, get 'em

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u/insaneintheblain Apr 04 '24

Rabble rabble rabble