Reddit threads are literally the only useful results half of the time.
Rest are website with copy-pasted articles that don’t help at all…trying to get you to watch their ads.
Reddit is like 50% of the reason Google is even useful anymore haha. So much useful, niche information.
Who the hell wants whatever the alternative to stack overflow is?? I mean, what would that even be? Misleading Quora questions? Expertsexchange pages that give wrong answers and don’t let you view it without an account? Microsoft help forums where nobody even answers the question and the thread is just people complaining about the lack of answers? Old school forums where denver_coder12 just replies to his own question with “I fixed it”?
The pre stack overflow internet sucked ass.
But Reddit and SO are the only two results that give me the answers I need/want
Reddit threads are what I look for in search results!
Both are massive and useful sources of information, and their loss is and would be a tragedy.
The ideal imo would be their CEOs not driving the sites into the ground for power and profit. But, capitalism is what it is.
It is still a treasure trove of knowledge, accumulated over the years. I can’t see search results from reddit becoming less valuable any time soon.
I’m doing my part by redacting and removing all my reddit comments from the past 12 years. Reddit doesn’t deserve the traffic they get from search engines, if they don’t respect their users.
Just curious. Why are Reddit results (or Stack Overflow) not good when searching? They are usually the highest quality content, imo.
I also add “-site:domain.com” to filter stuff out when I need to.
Personally it boils down to two things:
- A majority of SO answers are duplicates, and it’s a 50% chance the answer will actually work for my use case
- Reddit responses are opinions, usually without sources, and I want the actual source with as little opinion as possible
Most of the time I do end up using “-site:reddit.com” for that exact purpose.
honestly i use google to find reddit results…
Seriously. I got so used to just tagging “reddit” at the end of a search to find recommendations, niche content, etc. It’s the thing I miss most. Not sure how we replicate something like that with these new sites. Maybe time will set it straight.
If you haven’t tried out Marginalia search engine, check it out. At least in my experience, it was like, “Holy shit, THIS is what search engines used to be like!”
Reddit >>> AI generated articles or bias sponsored reviews…
StackOverflow isnt bad to read. Its just horrible to post or comment on.
First we need a good archive of reddit so all the useful info is still accessible
yes.
I was surprised to hear people saying they get answers from reddit. I’ve never considered it a great source, for my work usually a couple solid steps below stack overflow. It was more useful as a pure link aggregator.
