Reddit Adds Ability to Create Your Own “Reddits”
Mark Hendrickson
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According to a company blog post, social news site Reddit has launched, in closed beta, the ability for users to create their own “reddits”.
The new feature will eventually allow all users to create their own social news lists for chosen topics. These customized reddits will come in three flavors: public, restricted, and private. If you set up a public reddit, every Reddit user will be able to view and participate in the reddit. Restricted reddits will only allow certain members to contribute. And private reddits will only be viewable by their own members.
For the next week or so, Reddit will solicit a “handful of users” to try out the new feature before opening it up to everyone. Mixx has implemented something similar, while we’re still waiting for Digg to do the same. As these social news sites become more platform-like, we’ll see them competing with offerings like Fraxi (covered here) and Pligg.
Kicks ass
didn’t Netscape do this, like 2 years ago?
pretty sure Ning might have rolled this out by now.
Sweet! You even screen-grabbed my sad (yet hug-able) bear market bear logo.
Hopefully this new round of site updates will help folks deal with their financial woes. That, or maybe they can create a reddit community for “Ron Paul’s Army for the Gold Standard.”
Would love to see one for alternative energy — such a dynamic field these days.
Wasn’t coRank the first one doing this? It’s interesting that in your article you reference another post that says “Digg not in talks to buy corank but might they copy corank” and now a new “me too” is only “copying” Mixx (which isn’t even close) and Fraxi (which doesn’t even exist yet).
Copying corank. Why don’t they try and be innovative and come up with something new.
Collaborative filtering is such a better solution to this problem…
Jaanix is the future, reddit is the past.
Yea, Reddit needs to focus on how they can be different, and mostly more exciting to use. Since their acquisition, they’ve been slowly going down.