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3. I've found that if you want to learn stuff, do stuff, and develop ideas, that talking about it is the best way to generate ideas & create motivation. Thus, having sub-reddits where you can learn & discuss specific topics in order to develop ideas is a great approach for actually making progress on developing stuff. Reddit's upvote system & indent-reply system are actually pretty useful for quickly finding useful information. There some really fantastic content submissions & discussions going on...not all the time, but there are definitely some gems in there!

Truf.

I presume it isn't just me, but it wasn't reading the front-page that made me decide to build my first desktop. It was tons of people on a forum (Mostly [H]) that were supportive, helpful - and hell, one guy that was even on IM with me walking me through practically every step and troubleshoot that I had.

Used to talk to that dude my entire life growing up... then real life happened... AOL instant messenger died as well and we just haven't talked in forever now.
 

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I probably have an account I think...I just hate layout..but I do have a few reddit discords i'm part of...basically path of exile/ marvel universe and now banned at another one.
 

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I go between Reddit and AT daily like they're the same, but obviously reddit is a lot more fresh.
 
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I don't think we really needed yet another Reddit thread on here, but guess we're due for one about once a year or so...

Don't like their format, and don't have the time or patience to wade through their bazillion sub groups and everything, nor deal with the different moderation ideas that each one has. I'll read through some if they show up in Google results, and sometimes get worthwhile info sometimes not. I don't think they're necessarily better or worse than most places, ok well they're definitely better than garbage like 4Chan.

There's definitely awful shitheads on Reddit (and that continued past when they tried to purge some like the pedophiles posting their underage fetish shit - although those people seem to be using YouTube these days), but there's plenty that aren't.

Its a mix of everybody for better and worse.

I don't think I ever made a Reddit account. Made one for Imgur, and used to look through pics on there and comment but its full of fucking idiots (there was one where someone showed a pic of a car design studio from like the 50s, with clay bucks, and the people there thought it was a production line and then ranted about how much better cars used to be made...and just a bunch of other random stupid shit).
 
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