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[–]neovulcan 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (15 children)

Thanks to the sheer population of Reddit, there's anywhere from dozens to thousands in niche subreddits that might not even exist on alternative sites. For instance, /s/explainbothsides has an overmoderated Reddit counterpart but the Saidit side has had almost no activity in the past year with 10 subscribers. We have an /s/stargate, but there's literally nothing there compared to the Reddit counterpart that is actually a pretty positive place. Not every sub on Reddit has gone to shit, and I still hope the trend reverses itself.

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    [–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

    I agree, but it's also good to get those niche hobby subs started with some seed posts, so when a switchover happens it's not a cold-start

    [–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

    Could you make /s/all the default frontpage for both guests and logged in users? There's little point in submitting to a small subsaidit with the current settings. It was okay initially but this is a side-effect of users not getting subscribed to subs automatically.

    [–]magnora7 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

    No, sorry but I can't make that change. Unfortunately, what happens is people make subs with very questionable names and then upvote themselves and those subs to the front page daily for weeks, and begin posting actual legitimate news in those fringe subs like it's the main sub for the whole saidit website, and then over weeks and months new users see awful sub names on half the posts everyday and it absolutely drives people away.

    It's a way to subvert the website, by making one fringe extremist sub take over the front page. And it's very hard to get rid of once it takes root. This has happened twice. So we have it this way for a reason. I wish we could have it defaulted to /all without this problem occurring. However I totally understand the desire for easier access to information.

    That's why we added functionality so users can change their frontpage to 'all' by default in the 'preferences' button by your username. Guests without a username who want to view it can go to https://saidit.net/s/all as well. Thanks.

    [–]Dragonerne 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    I really wonder what kind of group of people would go to such lengths to subvert this good website

    [–]KyleIsThisTall 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Can you list those awful sub names?

    [–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    One of the ways you can stop /s/All manipulation and is something reddit did is not allow sticked threads to get to /s/All

    [–]hot_coffee_enema 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

    I'm gonna need an app though. Not impressed with the foss redreader clone updated 4 years ago. Anyone have an .apk?

    [–]Evola 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

    Mobile posters are not welcome.

    [–]hot_coffee_enema 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Why not?

    [–]KyleIsThisTall 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    lol

    i need a repackaged web browser instead of a web page in a web browser

    retard

    [–]hot_coffee_enema 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    I didn't even try it on my mobile browser. I guess I should do that first before being a little bitch.

    [–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    ^