One of my highest traffic posts is about how I gave up Reddit for managing my own RSS feeds. Well guess what? I ended up in that inbox-zero trap where I added too much and I felt like I had to read it all. I guess Google Reader at that time (maybe still now) had read/unread article counts, which is going to influence user’s behavior dramatically, especially those of us who manically have a desire to actually look at everything for fear of that one amazing diamond in the rough getting washed away. Twitter, kindly enough, doesn’t show an unread tweet count so I’ve gotten more into that as well (@easterisle).
Anyway - the point I want to focus on is that I went back to reddit. I know, I know, its probably worse now than it ever was in terms of trolling and general douchebaggery, but finding good subreddits really makes up for that. r/programming and r/netsec and pretty great, not to mention the various ganja-based boards, some of the political boards, etc. (/r/politics used to have this great ‘show all’ link which let you view all the submissions from all the political boards at once).
So I suppose my suggestion to anyone who comes across this is to register an account, get rid of all the front page reddits, and jump ship when it turns into Digg in 2 years.
