Before the youtubers were the blogs, and before the blogs, the forums dominated the Network. Although many have failed to survive, there are some who remain at the foot of the canyon. If you don't know what Reddit is or what it is, we tell you.
Although it cannot be described exactly as a forum, it cannot be included in another category.
Actually it is a website where users publish content and links to external websites that may be interesting.
The Reddit platform has changed hands a lot. It was created in June 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, with the help of an investment by Y Combinator. In November of that same year Aaron Swartz came into play, who agreed to own Reddit by merging it into his own Infogami site. A year later the publishing house Count Nast acquired the portal, and soon after this, Swartz was fired.
The growth of the Reddit website was increasing little by little and, in mid-2008, it became open source. In 2011 they became independent from their buyer and, today, goes free.
Unlike many other forums, Reddit does not deal with a specific topic, since it is a community that encompasses all the themes we can imagine. Each of them has its own section, called subreddit, and a series of rules prevail.
Those who enter for the first time will see on the cover the most relevant publications of all subreddits. The relevance is controlled by the users' own votes and, therefore, the community has control. These messages may contain an image, a link, a video or any other content with the possibility of downloading. From there, you can create several comment threads.
By becoming a user account you can subscribe to the subreddits you want, and the cover of the community will be limited to showing the most relevant news of the topics to which you are subscribed.
Many of the users who enter Reddit for the first time qualify it as an outdated website, since it has a very simple structure. However, that does not mean that its developers have not taken their work seriously. The Reddit aspect is like that because it works. And you already know what they say: everything difficult before must be simple.
