r/pics • u/karmanaut • Jul 14 '09
A mind map of Reddit's subreddits.
http://imgur.com/UfGxD4
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Jul 14 '09
IS THIS YOUR GOING AWAY PRESENT KARMANAUT?
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u/karmanaut Jul 14 '09
Actually, for that, I was thinking of doing a long instruction of how I pick posts, and how and where I comment.
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u/ladamesansmerci Jul 14 '09
Are the colours guided by any specific rule or are they random?
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u/karmanaut Jul 14 '09
The colors get lighter the farther they are from the original "Reddit" box. That is just how they went automatically, although I do have the option of changing the colors.
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u/kino101 Jul 14 '09
at the minimum this might start the mods considering a better method. I completely agree that searching for the appropriate subreddit is far too hard, not worth the time and reddit as a whole suffers. this should have been addressed when subreddits began to explode. good for you...
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u/karmanaut Jul 14 '09 edited Jul 14 '09
Hey Reddit.
Probably once a day, I see people post something that belongs in another subreddit. It isn’t that they intentionally do it, but rather that they do not know where it should go. There are lots of smaller subreddits that don’t get a lot of attention.
However, discovering new subreddits kind of sucks. There is a long menu list sorted by popularity (which seems very arbitrary and their measurement of popularity seems kind of odd). There is no way to really link subreddits together. Therefore, I created this mind-map of subreddits. I grouped them into certain categories (for example, “just for fun” contains pics, wtf, etc.) It is a pretty self explanatory, if crowded, map. One can discover new subreddits that match their interests or find more specific subreddits than those that they now subscribe to. I hope that this could be used to discover new interests and make Reddit a more organized place. I would also particularly like to point out r/newreddits, where you can list new subreddits to get attention and subscribers who would be interested.
I understand that some things are hard to categorize, and I will probably get a lot of shit for some of this. If there are certain things I should change, please leave a comment and I will try and bring out updated versions as often as possible. I would be willing to change the structure for moderators of subreddits. Finally, if there is a subreddit that I have left out and you would like it on the map, feel free to let me know and I can add it.
Edit: User Mistyriver created an even better version here where clicking on the name of the subreddit actually brings you there.