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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Gawker is a blight on the internet. They call themselves journalists but can't be bothered to actually edit their pieces before posting them. They stir up shit and then complain when people call them out on it. Does anyone remember that one writer's "you don't get to call us unprofessional" meltdown? Gawker's original content isn't worth reading and everything else they post can be skipped with no loss by simply going to their source.

In the world of internet security, you should never have to ask "why should we be more secure?" It should just be the default mentality.

If you go to https://www.reddit.com/login you'll see it's already somewhat available, just a bad/no certificate. I'm not saying to make it required, but at least give us an option.

If you aren't logged in, you don't see any NSFW content in /r/all.

However, you're right about the over18 setup when it applies to logged-in users. I've created a ticket to address this.

I will preface this comment with saying that I use Tumblr, and on one hand I like it and on the other I think Tumblr and Tumblr users go overboard sometimes on certain things. I also think preventing suicide is extremely important, and a few large sites (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.) do have "safety teams" that you can contact if you encounter a suicidal user on that site. Source

BUT, if you click that source link, you will see that the only thing those safety teams can do--and are probably legally able to do--is email/message the user in question and give them the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number (1-800-273-TALK). At that number, the user can reach a real crisis counselor.

This is not the same as what you said, which is having admins "work with officials to make sure a person is safe or if they are in need of assistance". They don't do that. They aren't trained to be responsible for "making sure" of anything, and it's not reasonable to expect them to be. All they do is let the person know that there is help available and encourage them to call.

That page says that "If someone you know online is showing any of these warning signs, it is important that you post a message encouraging them to call the Lifeline." So basically those safety teams can't do too much more than what you, a random Redditor, can do just as easily--and perhaps more quickly--with a kind comment or private message.

I'm not saying that Reddit may not decide to develop such a team, but its scope would probably be more limited than you think.

I really encourage you to reach out to that user if you're truly concerned and give them the number, or direct them to this page of counseling and prevention resources.

This belongs on the bug tracker

Edit: Looks like someone already found and fixed it. Guess the production server was never updated.

We try not to store personal information wherever possible.

Have you thought about purchasing creddits? They can be used anytime you'd gift someone gold and the cost works out to less per gilding.

You could also use a password manager like lastpass which can securely store form fills for you.

Use RES (an extension used in conjunction with Reddit by 3+ million people). It has night mode.

If you're on mobile the official app already has a night mode.

Also some subreddits already have custom CSS themes for night mode, too.

It is a good analysis of the problem, but I would propose a different solution:

Upon registration, or as part of registration, present the users with a hierarchical selection of subreddits with checkboxes (example). The first level will consist of default subreddits, selected by default. They will be expandable to refine the choice of subreddits - e.g., /r/music will expand to /r/metal, /r/electronicmusic, etc. The advantage of this approach is that users who don't bother will not have an extra hurdle, while others will have an opportunity to customize their subreddits. This will be only used during registration; the structure of reddit will remain the same.

Not all subreddits can be organized in a clean hierarchy, but this will cover many cases. Here is karmanaut's (outdated) subreddit map which is an example of how this can be done.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagejpeg.php

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<?php

$date_start = date_create('now');

$date_end = date_create('Oct 14, 2012');

$diff = date_diff($date_start,$date_end);

$date1 = $diff->m.' months, '.$diff->d.' days,';

$date2 = $diff->h.' hours, '.$diff->i.' minutes.';

$im = imagecreatetruecolor(135,42);

imagesavealpha($im,true);

imagefill($im,0,0,imagecolorallocatealpha($im,0,0,0,127));

imagestring($im,2,18,5,$date1,imagecolorallocate($im,0,0,0));

imagestring($im,2,10,22,$date2,imagecolorallocate($im,0,0,0));

header('Content-Type: image/png');

imagepng($im);

imagedestroy($im);

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Host that somewhere (you're hosting a PHP script whose output is an image, not an actual image, so host it somewhere appropriate for that, imgur won't work), and you can just include it like any other image.

edit: tested and fixed my code so it actually works

edit2: fuck, i felt challenged so i did all the work for you.

edit3: http://kafene.x10.mx/countdown/ there i'm hosting it too. I have no idea how much bandwidth I have or if you can hotlink, I don't even use that host I just made an account one day for jerking around with PHP scripts. The font is ugly, you can suppply a different font somehow.

The gist was something like when RES got brought up, a normal user said that most RES modules were a mess of an implementation and an admin replied saying yes, total mess.

Also something about an admin saying GreaseMonkey is for when you want to modify a website that isn't open-source. The proper way because reddit is open-source is to contribute to the source. They did agree that most of RES is what should be in reddit itself. It's not like this is the official stance from reddit, and it does sound like you did directly talk to admins about being hired.

But I do agree that contributes should be made to the source, not all these plugins/addons out there. I already made a patch for the reddit source to show the exact time/date for posts (like RES does) and it's awaiting admin approval. I do use RES myself and haven't looked at the code or anything. I just think there's a lack of contribution to the source from the userbase.

I'd suggest installing a browser extension that will tell you how much time you spend on each website. If you're using Firefox, try TimeTracker but beware -- you may not like what you find. :)

I know you said that you didn't like IFTTT's version of the weekly digest, but for anyone else that does like IFTT I made this IFTTT recipe, which will send a weekly email containing a bunch of hot posts from a subreddit of your choosing.

This could happen on an official translation

https://crowdin.com/project/reddit

I use the british english language translation since reddit had pirate day

There is all sorts of unnecessary translation such as "mates" for "friends" and "letterbox" for "inbox". So no reason not to have a "censor" button as an official translation.

Just wanted to mention that RES does this already as a workaround for now.

> If you can have hover initiate the 'check for new messages' call, without leaving your page or your place in the page, it would be very useful imo and won't load the serve any more (maybe even less) than refreshing the whole page or opening a new reddit tab

Not true. The page is cached on the server side (for listings pages only, IIRC) and client side (on all pages) so refreshing the page will have almost no bearing on server load.

But yes, I would like this to become a feature if it's feasibly doable.

If you use Chrome I'd suggest this addon as a temporary workaround.

I use it and find it pretty useful. It'll show me when I have a message even if I'm not currently browsing reddit. However if you get a reply from a mod the indicator sticks until you get a reply from a non-mod, or it does on my account.

Another option is the redditaddict app that can give you a desktop notification. And if you want, an audio notification.

Now I think Japanese supports gets more easier. On 24 MAR 2014 Cloudsearch supports Multiple Languages.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudsearch-even-better-searching-for-less-than-100month/

I highly suggest using an actual bookmarking system rather than reddit's half-baked saving. I am a huge supporter of https://pinboard.in , which gives me access to save things from any site, has tagging to help me find things again, has mobile apps to make it easy to use cross-platform, archives pages so I can still see them when they get deleted (about a quarter of my bookmarks have gone dark), and has fulltext search across my entire bookmark collection.

The quickest solution to this, then, would probably be to use a 3rd party app, such a Sync.

There are other Reddit app alternatives on the play store, but I know from personal experience that you only have to press and hold the star-shaped "save" icon below the post in order to categorically save it.

Ah ha! That's it!
Comes with a lot more than I expected, but I'm really glad for the live preview.

Thank you, u/magicwhistle!

Reddit Enhancement Suite

Shameless plug:

Someone asked for this a week or two ago, so I quickly threw together a chrome extension that does this. It's not perfect, but it's fairly lightweight and plays well with Reddit Enhancement Suite.

You can't really implement this via the API. If you want to implement this properly, you'll need to make a patch, as the sort needs access to the real vote data and not the fudged data that is available on the front-end.

If you're actually interested in this, you can find the code over at GitHub and you should join [/r/redditdev](/r/redditdev) and the associated IRC channel.

Trust is what makes you pay someone for an item, or do something for a promise of money. Trust does NOT make money viable, or else the USD would be worth nothing. Most people do not trust the gov't, banks, etc. behind it right now. If we were all shills, the current rate of 1 BTC would not equal 1.18 USD.

You are making blatantly incorrect claims: "you are all shills for Bitcoin!" instead of addressing the actual facts of the matter. It is secure, you can use Bitcoin-OTC for a WoT, the mathematical equations behind it will explain everything to you if you just take a look in the Git repository, located here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

Please stop making claims and responding with insults instead of addressing what actual makes up the currency.

Firefox - Reddit Notifier

Opera - Reddit on Speed Dial

There's nothing for IE (go figure) and I couldn't really do a good search for Safari because I don't have a Mac.

Hope that helps.

I just use this and this to make barcodes for any URL.

According to this page https://www.dropbox.com/help/45, paid accounts get 25x more bandwidth than free accounts. For a relatively small file, Dropbox links are probably perfectly reasonable, if you have a Pro account (I do). Seems like you'd have to be frontpaged pretty hard to burn through 250gb in a day.

That said, all other things being equal, posters might as well go for a hosting service without limits. I just wanted to point out that public Dropbox links aren't necessarily problematic, and as such may not be worth warning about.

I am involved with the MathJax project and happy to see your interest in using MathJax on Reddit. Makes perfect sense to me!

I wanted to add to this discussion that we've recently launched a CDN service, which makes MathJax integration even easier (see http://www.mathjax.org/2011/03/15/news/mathjax-launches-cdn-service-with-1-1-release/).

If you're not familiar with MathJax: it's an open source display engine that renders math from LaTeX and MathML dynamically, making sure it is nicely integrated into the surrounding text on all levels of zoom and across viewing devices (including tablets and smartphones). Here's an example to see MathJax in action: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/22954/proving-that-xy-x-y-being-x-and-y-two-strings

We'd be happy to think with you on how to use MathJax, just drop a line via the contact form at mathjax.org. Cheers!

http://sass-lang.com/

Mozilla is also looking into this stuff.

Currently, the best way to mimic variables is using inheritance.

r/Music mod here, we did that list. http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/help/faqs/Music

There are many subreddits, and we add some every months, so the list is becoming more and more huge. I don't think, for now, that putting them in alphabetical order would help, because the styles often goes by many names. You can always Ctrl+F if you have something in mind.

We tried to order them by thematics/style, inside a category.

Would you prefer a list like that ?

Do you think a description of each subreddit could add interest ? (It might be difficult, since some subs does not describe themselves in the sidebar, we might end up to frown some sensibility with a misleading description, or no description at all...)

This would be nice natively (As an option that could be turned off).

From a quick search there's an app that can do it for you (Assuming you're on Android).

For now, you could zoom in. Ctrl+. Maybe with the mobile interface.

EDIT: or if you have a TV that supports it, or can get a device that does, you can use HopWatch for Reddit.

The code you see is a unique identifier. The ID36 and is used to uniquely identify each and every "thing" on reddit. It doesn't have to be 5 characters, but that's what they are at the present. Old entries had fewer characters (I know of both 4 and 3 character things). This ID36 is the same as what's used for the shortlink that's shown in the sidebar of every comment page, and will work in the format you list as well (http://www.reddit.com/in87w is this page).

I am assuming you know you can change your preferences to not view 18+ links?

Also, do you know about reddit enhancement suite? Because it has a filtering for NSfW posts.

As far as swear words, you might be better off trying a browser plugin like this

I didn’t know that.
According to the documentation, you can simulate a <br /> by ending a line with two or more spaces.
I did it in this comment; does it work?

Are you using a new version of Chrome? There's been a bug somewhat like that on the actual site, for about the last week or so. I actually just submitted an issue about it to the reddit github this morning: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/issues/82

You can add "?depth=1" to the url to only get top level comments. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2e7svg/how_would_you_handle_the_situation_if_you_found/?depth=1

It makes it a little tough to see the replies.

>Many people, like me, have a lot to lose if their account gets accessed by an unauthorized party

Do you? Really? Apart from "internet points"... is there really anything here that's irreplaceable?

>Many sites already have this essential security feature...

Sure, like banks and commerce sites, and other sites where you might be at risk of having your personal information exposed.

>... so why not reddit?

Simply, it's easier said than done. If two-factor authorization is planned from the beginning the expense is lower, and the site architecture can be designed around it. However, applying it once the foundation has been built is a lot more expensive, and time-consuming.

It then comes quickly comes down to ROI. Does Reddit, Inc. benefit in the long run from implementing an expensive service like two-factor authorization? Alexa.com places reddit as the 26th most popular site in the world (and 11th most popular in the US) -- so, by implementing this, will it bring more traffic to their site?

Would it be a nice feature, I guess... but honestly, would the vast majority of Reddit's userbase benefit from it? I don't know, I'm leaning towards no. But, I'm open to be convinced.

(Keep in mind this is a personal opinion, and I'm sure I can find people at reddit, Inc. to disagree with me.)

Doing things you don't want to do is an essential part of life for almost everyone. It doesn't matter if your biology makes it particularly difficult - you still have to do it. Is that fair? No, but it's reality.

Based on publicly available demographics data and anecdotal conversations, most people looking for a feature like this are in school. School is a fairly safe place to fail; the workforce is not. And I'd much rather someone fail some classes because reddit was distracting to them than they lose several jobs because we enabled them and they weren't prepared for other distractions.

There are already several options for achieving a temporary lockout from reddit, and they are generally applicable to websites, making them vastly more useful than anything we could implement. In particular, giving someone else control over your account is a good stepping stone, because it creates an accountability relationship. Having an actual person, someone you know, to call you on your bullshit excuses has become an integral part of every successful addiction program I know of because it works - and for us to discourage away from that would be a disservice.

I'm not saying it's easy. It takes years of effort. For some people, it requires medication, which is still a pretty unknown part of the scientific field and full of unpleasant side effects and a lot of trial and error. It'll be painful sometimes. And it's something I expect to never perfect, to struggle with my whole life. But if we cripple people right when they're starting to be in charge of their own lives, I posit that we share in the blame for the results.

Gawd! I loath that sickly salmon color. Plus the darkest version makes it very hard for me to read any of the gray text so I have to select the text to read it.

To get around that problem, I currently use the Stylish add-on for Firefox along with the "Reddit - Make reported/spam rows easy on eyes" style by Thibi which creates a salmon-colored outline of the link rather than using a salmon-colored box.

Yeah I know, I've changed my bookmark to https://www.reddit.com and that seems to work alright most of the time. But now I'm replying to you guys from my inbox and for some reason it lost its SSL. So, that's why I'd suggest forcing it from settings (kinda like Facebook does!)

This actually was the initial implementation. People were pretty unhappy with the kind of self-posts that resulted (lots of pandering, just posting popular opinions, that kind of thing), and the change was fairly well-received IIRC.

edit: jedburg's response from here

For those, like me, who don't know what RES is, it's the Reddit Enhancement Suite and it's bloody awesome.

In Firefox, you can grab it using Tools -> Add-ons. You can probably do the same in the other supported browsers.

You can do this with Stylish. There is a wide variety of themes already available for reddit.

#2 shouldn't be up to reddit. If you want to automatically use https whenever possible, https everywhere on the client side is the way to go.

If reddit did want to do it anyway, they should use the https everywhere ruleset.

The privacy-conscious redditors should probably be using HTTPS Everywhere any way, which makes sure you are using https://pay.reddit.com/. I hope reddit offers better and default ssl for everyone, but that provides a useful stop gap.

Hey, I'd love if we'd get full LaTeX. It would be pretty straightforward too -- e.g., add a moderator configurable setting to load MathJax in your subreddit. Yes MathJax is rather large but it only needs to be fetched once, and can be done by a CDN. And then you can do

$$\frac{\pi}{4} = \sum_{n=0}^{n=\infty}\frac{(-1)^{n}}{2n + 1}$$

or inline equations with a single dollar sign and it renders beautifully. Stackexchange for example uses it on their math-y sites (e.g., math.stackexchange.com physics.stackexchange.com).

But regardless of implementing full LaTeX, it seems natural if you allow superscripts in your markdown to also allow subscripts.

Issue with this is that things like IE and safari don't even support the "@supports" tag. The CSS.supports() DOM api is potentially usable, but would be convoluted to use at the least. http://caniuse.com/#search=%40supports

I don't know. There is of course also the issue that not all clients support this. Also, it will take extra time to first decode the base64 encoded data. Don't know how much time that takes. What I do know is that Google was using base64 encoded data URIs to send all images at once in the first page of results of Google image search. Don't know if they still do that or not, and now that I think about it, they probably had to detect if the client could "understand" data URIs. So yeah, maybe this isn't such a good idea after all.

edit: Support in browsers seem to be quite good according to http://caniuse.com/datauri, but someone did some research on the time it takes to decode the data and it turns out to be very slow on many mobiles -- see http://www.mobify.com/blog/data-uris-are-slow-on-mobile/

Reddit is written in Python, and Python is absolutely slower than C (not that Facebook or Google are completely written in C...), but I'm not sure that you understand how painfully slow 36 inserts per second is.

I found a benchmark of ~7.8k inserts per second on a single machine, which is 2^11 times faster than 36 inserts per second.

I'm all for having a discussion, and I'm totally open to learning something new, but please use facts/sources/something.

> You can't just feed that many comments into a search tool.

Yes you can. For example, Google reported that they'd indexed 1,000,000,000,000 unique URL's in 2008, almost 500 times the number of comments on reddit. PostgreSQL doesn't put a limit on the number of rows per table. I'm confused at where you'd get the idea that databases can't scale.

>That's 2666 ids used in 1 minute and 15 seconds. A fairly large number, wouldn't you say? Not really feasible to index that.

That's a ridiculously low number. I'm not sure which databases you've worked with, but 36 inserts per second is a few orders of magnitude lower than can be achieved with a properly tuned database.

Is there any love for the zen of python? >>> import this

According to it, namespaces are a honking great idea. It doesn't solve the problem perfectly, but it does address the immediate issue and responds to a slew of other requests. reddit.com/r/writing/founder/ could be overthrown by reddit.com/r/writing/coup/

It does already do this, for most cases anyways. The submission link you reference has #t=31s. The regular expression used in the YouTube scraper only matches when there are both minutes and seconds available, like in #t=1m12s.

video_deeplink_rx = re.compile('.#t=(\d+)m(\d+)s.')

In addition to matching cases with both minutes and seconds defined, it should be matching when only seconds are available, and also when only minutes are available, #t=31s and #t=5m respectively.

But someone has already done it. It's called hubski and no one uses it. It has been around for years.

In regards to 'arguments', you still haven't made one. You just claim that if they don't completely change how reddit works, reddit will fail. Care to express why you think that is?

Because that requires flash or similar and flash is annoying as fuck on websites I use often. use reditr http://reditr.com/ or another such addon....or your favorite rss reader since your inbox supports rss.

Use https://pinboard.in. Not only do you get all of those features, but you can use it on any website, not just reddit. It also saves webpages so when they inevitably go offline or behind a paywall you still have a copy.

I highly recommend using https://pinboard.in instead. It:

• works on other sites
• has tagging
• has fulltext searching
• will archive pages so people can't delete useful information
• is slightly more supported
• has mobile support

Reddit's saved posts feature sucks balls. We can ask for them to improve it, but we can also just use the better options that are already available.

i had this issue with netflix killin my tunes when just browsn netflix, i dont use the reddit crap i use RIF so cant confirm in this instance but try using a media player that enables Play Alone control, such as MX Player. then it dont matter what is going on, MX will keep playing, very handy 🙂

MX Player does other cool stuff like pinch-zoom on videos, and is just really good all round and there is a free version

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad

have not once regretted paying for it

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=reddit.news&hl=en

See the orange button on the first screenshot?

You hit that and anything you've read will be hidden. But you have to hit it again the next time you want to hide read posts.

I don't think you'd have a very popular subreddit. It reminds me of Dan Ariely "Social Norms" v. "Market Norms" discussion in Predictably Irrational. People are trained to get subreddits for 'free" - if you suddenly ask for a fee (even a small) fee for something they've accepted as free, I don't think the reaction will be very positive.