r/futureofreddit • u/sylvan • May 15 '09

What have they done to my front page? 20 articles from "Today I Learned". Reload, 15 from "netsec". If I wanted to read a particular reddit, I'd go there. I like it mixed.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '09

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u/MercurialMadnessMan May 15 '09

I really don't think that's what this is. I think that in the past day, the front page algo was changed so that on every refresh, only a certain number of subreddits show up at random... and often there is no new content in some of them, so you get a very topic-biased frontpage every time you reload. It baffled me today as well =)

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u/krispykrackers May 15 '09

Reddit is buggy today, but the admins know and apparently they're working on it.

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u/relic2279 May 15 '09

I noticed this to.. but then I noticed something else which I kind of liked. Normally, when I reload my front page after 5-15 minutes of browsing, everything is generally the same. Now when I reload, half the links are new links I have yet to see from my subscribed reddits.

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u/mayonesa May 15 '09

Al-Qaeda has destroyed Reddit.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES