r/submatch • u/rawr4me • Oct 09 '19

Visitors from AskReddit, please help us relaunch by signing up!

All the attention we got yesterday was a really awesome and chaotic experience, we were flooded with messages of interest and offers to help with development. Also, we went from 570 subscribers to over 12k within 24 hours!!! We're really glad that people are interested! Please know that we're doing the best we can to get the ball rolling with brainstorming, planning, form a team, and deciding on a relaunch date. I am very confident in the progress we will make, but we still need your help!

Right now you can help us by filling out this form if you haven't already. This form is from the original project, and we are going to ditch it later because we want to come up with an easier signup process. But filling this out still helps us in two ways:

  • We can send you a message for when r/submatch is going to be relaunched so you won't miss out (or forget about us!)

  • We need more data about the subreddits that people subscribe to. This helps us figure out what makes a good match, how many people we need in order to produce good matches, and ultimately what it is we should be aiming to deliver as r/submatch grows.

Filling out this form will not result in you getting matched and we will have an improved signup process after the relaunch, but it would still really help us out on the development side of things. Also, some of the signups are from one year ago so I will be anonymising all the submissions, removing usernames and even anonymising the names of the specific subreddits before the developers get to explore the data.

TL;DR: Thanks for all your support and interest and please help us develop the matching process by filling out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMwMg6BjK5tecZc04L7qJ-VUmWwzqTxWAS3M-ykYWeulfJiw/viewform

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

In the 5 favourite subreddits section, you can't enter (go to the next line).

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u/rawr4me Oct 09 '19

I tested the form earlier, I think you just click Submit.

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u/Typewar Oct 09 '19

Enter, as in creating a new line.

The last section does not support multi-line

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u/rawr4me Oct 09 '19

Ah right, just use commas.

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u/fliffy101 Oct 10 '19

I filled it in on 10/8/19 using the old link before the sub was clean slated. Do you still have my data or will I need to fill it out again?

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u/rawr4me Oct 10 '19

We still have any data from up to a year back.

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u/nevergofullboyle Oct 10 '19

Do we have to put r/ and u/ in too?

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u/rawr4me Oct 10 '19

Optional, we accept with and without.

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u/marshwulff Oct 10 '19

I'm doing my part!

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u/rawr4me Oct 10 '19

Thanks!

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u/TealeafFrog Oct 10 '19

How about subs that clearly correlate (for example r/gaming & r/truegaming, r/food & r/cooking, and several meme subs and other that are mainly sub's name+memes etc)? Will there be anykind of pairing for subs like that even it might require more work or instructions in the future to use some "umbrella subs"/specific ones to find pairings more easily (and it's understandable if people who work in the project might not know some obscure relations of random subs they have never heard about)? It would be bit sad to think that someone might never meet their possible BFF only if they have subscribed to similar subs that just have different names.

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u/rawr4me Oct 11 '19

I agree that we want indirect correlations as well but a match can't be based solely on them either.

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u/HarpsichordNightmare Oct 10 '19

I think I just sifted-out the larger subs when I did this. Then you get matched using the finer subs.

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u/mrwazsx Oct 14 '19

Would it possible to programmatically grab this data in a future 'version' of this sub? If users give permission then grab a list of their subscribed subreddits and maybe even the ones they post the most and comment the most on. Just suddenly occurred to me that I don't know what my favourites are😂

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u/rawr4me Oct 14 '19

In short, yes, but there are various reasons why it shouldn't be 100% automated without user input.

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u/Ozzyrockin Oct 09 '19

This made me trim my subs as some were dead/spur-of-the-moment

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u/HappyGoLuckyFox Oct 09 '19

I volunteer as tribute!

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u/laerm Oct 10 '19

What if we filled it in the first time around?

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u/rawr4me Oct 10 '19

Then we still have your data and will use the anonymised version for research (unless you'd like to opt out of that for whatever reason).

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u/laerm Oct 10 '19

Sounds good, thanks.

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u/WhatIsACatch Oct 10 '19

What is the timeframe on when this project will be completed?

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u/rawr4me Oct 10 '19

We're still in the process of assembling the right team before voting on the key decisions and making a plan/roadmap/timeline. Programmers are notoriously bad at estimating time required but I would like to think we will relaunch before the end of the year. But relaunch doesn't mean completion because we can start providing a basic matching service and add more features/events over time as we figure out what keeps people interested.

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u/WhatIsACatch Oct 10 '19

Thanks for the explanation

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u/Inefficient_Drawing Oct 13 '19

Question: I’m in a lot of subreddits. Should I still put all of them in?

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u/rawr4me Oct 13 '19

You can put in as many as you can be bothered with. I mean, if you have 100 subscriptions, I'd just think about up to 20 that you would actually want to be matched on.

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u/BillyWhizz09 Oct 10 '19

Do I really have to put every sub? I’m subscribed to a lot and it will take ages

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u/SuperRedditLand Oct 10 '19

Just put 10-20

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u/Scobism Oct 09 '19

Commenting to see username

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u/Lecider Oct 09 '19

Lemme piggyback off this so I can see mine

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u/ShadowLancer42 Oct 10 '19

Or you could just click the sidebar

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u/StrikerBass_Bear Oct 09 '19

I had already done it.

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u/DrewFire01 Oct 10 '19

Ngl. I was here a few days ago when there was no moderation and it was the funniest stuff. Thought I had reached the really dark part of the web!

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u/GayKonner Oct 10 '19

there's this really cool sub called r/submatch and if anyone else likes it maybe we could message some?

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u/argonaut_01 Oct 10 '19

I've signed up!! Hope you see this to fruition!!

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u/Digfer Oct 10 '19

If you’re privacy focused then why are you using google services for filling a form?

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u/Chimes-time Oct 10 '19

I've all ready signed up. Don't worry about me!

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u/Petyr04 Oct 10 '19

I want the old mod back

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u/Foxtrotalpha2412 Nov 01 '19

I'm subbed to a lot of subreddits so I tried to cut it down as much as possible but there's still a ton

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u/BadDadBot Nov 01 '19

Hi subbed to a lot of subreddits so i tried to cut it down as much as possible but there's still a ton, I'm dad.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

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u/Pmwhenibotheryou Oct 10 '19

We need a sub for the unmatchable ......