Custom Reddits get even more interesting
Reddit just started embedding items from ‘custom reddits‘ into its homepage. Before, a user had to explicitly navigate to a separate page to see the items posted to the different custom reddits the user had subscribed to.
From the reddit blog:
We updated the front page today to normalize each link’s hotness to the other links within the same reddit. What this means is that you will start seeing more content on your front page from smaller reddits. We did this to give the smaller reddits that you are subscribed to a fair chance of getting displayed. If a particular link is very hot within its own reddit, it will now be very hot on your front page as well.
This is great news for those of us involved in posting to and moderating their own reddits, such as the Elite Tech Reddit founded by MG Siegler and co-moderated by Steven Hodson, Louis Gray, Mark Hopkins, Tony Hung, Jason Kaneshiro, and myself. The ‘l33t’ reddit now boasts about 1250 subscribers and is growing rapidly – even more so since the changes on the frontpage.
The reddit community has also reacted very positively to this change so far.
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