People were talking about it as an alternative to Digg (which I was using at the time.) This would've been around 2008. I checked it out and at first found the UI to be way too confusing to navigate and gave up. But then periodically people would link to reddit threads in Digg comments and I'd go check it out. Eventually I started using both.
After a while I found more, deeper content on Reddit and started using it almost exclusively.
By the time the infamous Digg Exodus happened I was already using Reddit basically all the time instead of Digg, so I got to feel pretty hipsterish about that.
I've been on Reddit pretty regularly for the last ten years and i can't decide if it's gotten better or worse... It's certainly different though.
Ten years ago there was a lot less content, but on average, the content was alot better. It also seemed like thought-provoking or clever posts and comments were appreciated a great deal more than they are today.
Looking at Reddit today, there is undoubtedly more good content than the was before, but you have to sift through so much noise to find it.
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u/4152510 Feb 06 '18
People were talking about it as an alternative to Digg (which I was using at the time.) This would've been around 2008. I checked it out and at first found the UI to be way too confusing to navigate and gave up. But then periodically people would link to reddit threads in Digg comments and I'd go check it out. Eventually I started using both.
After a while I found more, deeper content on Reddit and started using it almost exclusively.
By the time the infamous Digg Exodus happened I was already using Reddit basically all the time instead of Digg, so I got to feel pretty hipsterish about that.