sayit

Productivity

subreddit discovery

SHOW HN2019

398points
81comments
#55of 2,195 in 2019
Top 3%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

20 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 6 critical, out of 52 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.

Execution: 2 for, 3 againstIdea: 3 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful and fast for discovering new subreddits

    From 5 comments
    • This is awesome! My input had exactly the results I expected. Thanks for creating this tool, bookmarking!
      skilled on HN
    • This is a really useful tool. It works so smoothly on my mobile.
      bibyte on HN
    • Happy to hear :)!
      anvaka on HN
    • Useful little tool! Reddit humor subs are so damn specific, it can be hard to find them all.
      cannedslime on HN
    • This is great, and works flawlessly!
      bdibs on HN
  • Interesting graph visualization

    From 2 comments
    • This is seriously amazing man! Interesting to see how different subject-areas network themselves differently. For example, comparing "r/permaculture" to "r/linux". Also, looking…
      patcon on HN
    • Interesting finds: * /r/askscience is nested at the center of defaults (I think a lot of older, famous subs will end up highly connected) * /r/relationship_advice is kind of a…
      kerbalspacepro on HN

Objections

  • Biased toward large subreddits, hard to find small related ones

    From 2 comments
    • It's a cool tool, but it seems very biased towards bigger subs. If you let it loose on a small sub it will emphasize that big, kinda-but-not-really related subs over…
      Smithalicious on HN
    • It's a shame since this tool would be particularly useful for recommending small subs. I don't need it to tell me about big subs, since I already know them.
      Smithalicious on HN
  • Hot sidebar fails to load in Firefox private browsing

    From 3 comments
    • This is a great idea for a project, the 'users who also posted' metric seems to have worked really well. The site seems to fail to load the 'hot' items for the subreddits when I…
      charlieegan3 on HN
    • That sounds like Content Blocking kicking in - that's only active in Private Browsing by default: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking I note that page says "By…
      EvilTerran on HN
    • Thank you so much! I opened an issue here: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protection/issues/67
      anvaka on HN

Requests

  • Tabular view with subscriber counts

    From 1 comment
    • Good tool if possible add option to view result data in tabular format with no of subscribers. As this way its difficult to use.
      techaddict009 on HN
  • Preserve navigation history

    From 2 comments
    • That's a cool tool. And useful extension would be if it preserves the location history if you navigate topics, so that you can go back.
      nairboon on HN
    • Good call. I was worried that I'd "spam" the browser history and people who are coming from reddit or HN would never go back to where they came from :)
      anvaka on HN
  • Clicking through to the subreddit

    From 1 comment
    • I was sort of expecting to be able to click through to the subreddit...
      yanslookup on HN

Questions

  • What metric is used for relationships

    From 2 comments
    • > The relationship is determined by a metric "users who posted to this subreddit also post to...". I'm interested, could you share with us the the entire metric you used to…
      hueyjj on HN
    • It is jaccard similarity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index Also I described it a bit more here:…
      anvaka on HN
  • How the data was collected and computed

    From 2 comments
    • You indicated that you used the Pushshift.io datasets, but how did you compute Jaccard Similarity on a dataset of 38M?
      minimaxir on HN
    • I didn't use pushshift, sorry. The data was collected from bigquery, stored locally into CSV files, and then I just wrote a node.js script to compute similarities.
      anvaka on HN

Alternatives named

  • Yasiv

    From 2 comments
    • Is this built on top of your work on yasiv before?
      diziet on HN
    • It would be fair to say so. The core layout is the same with a bit more polished overlap removal and animation.
      anvaka on HN

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