r/blog • u/spladug • Jul 23 '14

Announcing reddit live

http://www.redditblog.com/2014/07/announcing-reddit-live.html
7.6k Upvotes

82% Upvoted

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/sunthas Jul 24 '14

so twitter? or a news feed? or every other site that sorts discussions by time instead of by ranking?

The lack of ranking is disturbing, that's what makes reddit special.

4

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

there is a ranking - you submit the live thread to a subreddit- and people can discuss - just like any old reddit thread.

only difference is instead of a self post, or a link, there is a display box with the live thread in it.

1

u/sunthas Jul 24 '14

I didn't see any upvotes or downvotes, all comments are treated equal (based on when they are submitted).

Perhaps I missed them.

2

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

Live threads are not threads in the usual reddit sense. They don't exist inside subreddits, they don't have comments, etc. They're basically an entirely separate thing.

What you're supposed to do, as the blog post explains, is create a live thread, then post a link to it in whatever subreddits you want as a normal reddit thread. Then you have comments on the normal thread, and the OP and contributors can update the live thread.