reddit (and the general state of the scene)

[Espermaschine]

I never bothered with promoting my blog, so i dont have many followers or daily hits (between 50-80 a day seems the average after 4,5 years).

Yesterday i posted a link to a new Inkscape tutorial on the Inkscape subreddit as an experiment to see how much traffic that would generate.
That gave me 25 hits in 18 hours so far.

I dont know, i use reddit for discussing movie and television stuff. It doesnt appear like a good place for helping with graphics design problems to me, but younger people seem to prefer it compared to forums.

I tried G+ for a while and found it awful. Never bothered with Facebook.
Do people use it as a forum substitute ?

I guess youtube is the biggest thing for getting content out, but i cant see myself investing in the tech and im not used to speaking english, so that might sound a little odd....
Also not sure about the future of YT. It seems since the adpocalypse, YT is on the decline and something different will appear at some time.
Or net neutrality will change it all.

Opinions ?

[rich2005]

I can only speak for myself, but I do social nothing. A few bespoke videos on YT, not bothered if they only get a single view, if they help the intended Gimp user.

I think you are correct on that last bit for all of them, This years latest and greatest is forgotten next year.

[Espermaschine]

(12-18-2017, 10:58 AM)rich2005 Wrote: I can only speak for myself, but I do social nothing. A few bespoke videos on YT, not bothered if they only get a single view, if they help the intended Gimp user.

I think you are correct on that last bit for all of them, This years latest and greatest is forgotten next year.

Yeah, but dont you think that is a generational thing ?
We are the generation that is used to forums.

Then came social media and it wasnt for me.
Even worse with the smartphonegeneration. Am i supposed to post tutorials as individual Twitter posts or on Instagram ??
All these things seems like marketing tricks to exploit the latest tech but not really a good way to help with learning graphics design or communicating.

[Ofnuts]

I'm active on both reddit (r/Gimp, and some totally SFW r/*porn subreddits ) and several StackExchange sites (StackOverflow, GraphicDesign, SuperUser...).

• Both have the big advantage to support Markdown and have simpler image upload, but they won't allow plain files.
  
• Being "a-social" is an explicit goal of the StackExchange network but the Q&A format is IMHO difficult for beginners. They expect good questions, but beginners barely know what their problem is, so how cannot they ask a "good" question, in the SE meaning of the term. And if you need to ask form more information (often...) the "comments" section show its limits very fast. Answers are voted, so someone who looks up the site has an idea of what the good answers are. But I have seen the real good answers receive less votes than the incorrect/incomplete ones.
  
• Reddit is reasonably nice and usable, but it's really throw-away discussion, you can't have semi-permanent threads.
  

[Espermaschine]

(12-18-2017, 11:36 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: StackExchange sites (StackOverflow, GraphicDesign, SuperUser...).

Every time i google for a graphics design related question, i find excellent content on one of these sites, but i have no idea what they are.
Will look into it.

[Ofnuts]

(12-18-2017, 11:43 AM)Espermaschine Wrote:

(12-18-2017, 11:36 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: StackExchange sites (StackOverflow, GraphicDesign, SuperUser...).

Every time i google for a graphics design related question, i find excellent content on one of these sites, but i have no idea what they are.
Will look into it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange

[Espermaschine]

(12-18-2017, 11:36 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: and some totally SFW r/*porn subreddits

I cant find this subreddt....when i use the title with the *, it says 'Page doesnt exist'.
When i remove the *, i get an avalanche of very pink images.

[Ofnuts]

From https://www.reddit.com/r/ListOfSubreddit...subreddits

Code:

/r/adporn
/r/adrenalineporn
/r/animalporn
/r/artefactporn
/r/artporn
/r/cableporn
/r/carporn
/r/carporn
/r/continuityporn
/r/designporn
/r/destructionporn
/r/earthporn
/r/fakehistoryporn
/r/futureporn
/r/gunporn
/r/gunporn
/r/humanporn
/r/illusionporn
/r/machineporn
/r/militaryporn
/r/movieposterporn
/r/penmanshipporn
/r/penmanshipporn
/r/powerwashingporn
/r/powerwashingporn
/r/shittyfoodporn
/r/shittyfoodporn
/r/shockwaveporn
/r/skyporn
/r/unixporn
/r/waterporn

And a good deal others here: https://www.reddit.com/r/sfwpornnetwork/...iki_nature

And I follow three that aren't in either list...

[Espermaschine]

so it was a placeholder....my goodness