[madeofpalk]

> Try opening the reddit homepage, new design, no account, and tell me with a straight face that that is a place where serious, well-thought discussion happens.

This has nothing to do with the new design. If Reddit was ever a place for “serious, well thought discussion”, it hasn’t been that way for the past 10 years.

[rchaud]

Perhaps for you. I joined in 2013, and wouldn't know half of what I do if it weren't for conversations on r/webdev and r/web_design. Such topics would have been shut down on StackOverflow because it broke some cardinal rule that nobody except people that spend all day on SO would know about.

That's just for work related things. In terms of having conversations about relationships, or sports, or new phones and tablets, I wouldn't even think of having these anywhere but Reddit.

Granted, I don't spend time on r/pics, or r/teenagers or whatever is on the front page. But I don't click the "Trending" tab on Youtube either.

[intotheabyss]

It really depends on the subreddits. The smaller and more engaged the community, the better the discussions. As subreddits scale in size, the discussions get proportionally worse.

[mjklin]

I learned Swedish by browsing r/sweden for about two years