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by movedx 2688 days ago
My advice would be to treat it like a tool: look up what you need, ask questions when you need to, but ignore it the rest of the time.
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It's not Stack Overflow; Reddit is designed to be visited daily and 'engaged' with.

That said, I do go to Reddit first when I'm looking to answer questions like HDD recommendations or things to do in my city. That's because searching Google for it will give me nothing but awful content mill blog posts stuffed with affiliate links and SEO-optimized keywords ("Best USD Hard Drives in 2019"). On Reddit you actually get the feeling that the question is trying to be answered by actual people.

> It's not Stack Overflow; Reddit is designed to be visited daily and 'engaged' with.

I don't care how it's designed. It can be used as a tool.

I used to spend hours a week on Reddit, but I've consciously made the effort to avoid it. Unless it comes up in search results, in which case I'm using it as a tool.
Its a tool covered in weird gunk and makes your hand feel dirty every time you use it. The website is slow and bloated and filled with mountains of JS and tracking
True. The new UI is a joke. I've always hated most modern website UIs, though.