Reddit Users Struggle with Platform Management
93 posts across 29 communities in the last 30 days; 22% from r/SideProject.
“For a directory, the submit side has to come first: a maker submits when the listing gives them something a quick social post can't, like a page they're glad to link to and a note when their project gets featured, which they will then share themselves. For discovery, letting…”
“een working on this for a bit. it's basically a photo site where you just see posts from people you follow, newest first. no ads, no suggested posts, no algorithm stuff you can post photos or just text, comment, DM people, all that. sign up's just a username and password only…”
“Can't you just sort by "new"? [re: how i pick which reddit threads to reply to (under an hour old, under 10 comments, or skip it)]”
Reddit users are overwhelmed by the platform's complexity, discoverability issues, and lack of intuitive tools for managing their saved content, interactions, and profile data. This leads to wasted time, frustration, and a desire for better solutions to navigate and utilize Reddit effectively. Many are building tools to solve these problems themselves.
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“Who it's for: freelancers, agencies, anyone who finds clients on Reddit. What it does: as you scroll a subreddit, posts and comments that look like leads get a tag like "Lead" or "Ready to pay". Matches go into an inbox in a side panel. What…”
“For a directory, the submit side has to come first: a maker submits when the listing gives them something a quick social post can't, like a page they're glad to link to and a note when their project gets featured, which they will then share themselves. For discovery, letting visitors browse by the problem a project solves is often easier than browsing by category, because people arrive with a need in mind, not a category name. I make ThreadFox. Our AI employee can introduce Projectabe in”
“OMG. Apparently I am dumb because I have been on Reddit for 2 years and I only learned this now. I have been trying to keep track what I posted where and going crazy, thinking there is no way how to check what I posted in a certain subreddit. I just learned that if you go to a subreddit and type author:Beautiful_Babe66 into the search bar (the second part being your username, this is an example with mine) , it will show you everything you have ever posted in that subreddit. No spaces! It has to”
“Hidden post and comment histories, age of account etc. [re: Lots of flippers in default]”
“be aware that that inserts reddits good old tracking data https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x66sfc/please_help_i_have_no_idea_what_to_do_an_i_know/ [re: This feel surreal...]”
“be aware that that inserts reddits good old tracking data https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x66sfc/please_help_i_have_no_idea_what_to_do_an_i_know/ [re: This feel surreal...]”
“I agree with Complex - there's actually at least two, possibly three regular sub-Reddits I drop a link into, because all three are related. Plus an external forum with one of the key interests (specific motorcycle I ride). I used to drop it into another sub-Reddit but I got the message it wasn't a good fit. On Insta I drop a reel and get the odd person coming across to watch the full video, but mostly I just let the algorithm do it's thing [re: How do you share your video?]”
“I need improvement, as I am new in the reddit. Thanks for your support 😊. By again and again spotting up my mistake instead of just ignoring it. Now see i had updated [re: Startup: Feedcrafts is live and you can generate faceless Video]”
“Are you only popping into the subreddit to advertise for guests wanted and then never interacting again when you get what you need? It's no surprise no one cares for that. If browsing subreddits, could you DM people directly? People you find whose comments were interesting or engaging that you'd want them to come on the show instead of people self selecting and having them make the effort to reach out to you? [re: Finding guests on Reddit is hit and miss.]”
“een working on this for a bit. it's basically a photo site where you just see posts from people you follow, newest first. no ads, no suggested posts, no algorithm stuff you can post photos or just text, comment, DM people, all that. sign up's just a username and password only like 10 people on it so far so it's pretty quiet lol. lmk what you think or if anything's broken submitted by /u/Lanky-Ad8072 [link] [comments]”
“Yeah the locking doesn’t work if you just search someone’s username. Well if the task is repetitive enough I generally take real data then change the info on it so it makes a script that handles the import, then I run the real data through that. (Fake data keeps the real datas quirks and outliers so the script handles weirdness). As far as automation I have opus building maybe 5 products, and 2 websites. 2 are mostly for me. But Im hitting my limit too quickly so i made it so opus could call on”
“Can't you just sort by "new"? [re: how i pick which reddit threads to reply to (under an hour old, under 10 comments, or skip it)]”
“Export your subscriptions as OPML (usually Settings, then Import/Export) and search the file for “reddit.com”. Watch for the ones that don’t look like Reddit: multireddits (r/a+b), search feeds, /user/ and /domain/ feeds, private saved or inbox feeds with a token in the link, and RSSHub routes. Or drop the file into rssrescue.mayankbuilds.com (I made it). It lists them all and runs in your browser, so the file isn’t uploaded. [re: Reddit will also shut down the RSS feed on November 13th. Can we”
“This is the level of social skill issues redditors have guys. Here is an artificial intelligence which you can tailor exactly to your needs with absolute bare minimum effort, and redditors will still find friction in this. [re: Why does chatgpt write so g*ddamn much?]”
“Read and follow reddiquette; no excessive self-promotion. Please refer to the Reddit 9:1 rule when considering posting self promoting materials. [re: need a color picker extension that works everywhere]”
“The purity at the heart of Reddit. Love the way you put that. [re: How does everyone feel about this sub becoming fodder for LinkedIn?]”
“I really like that idea. I agree with your point about losing momentum when you see a bunch of posts with 6 views and no likes. I'll give the tool a try, thank you! [re: Four months from launch to exit. This is the new world of business.]”
“You've got it backwards. CS-educated people are much, much more likely to understand that there are any number of workarounds to view a redditor's history, and that using multiple accounts is best practice. [re: [meta] The Ukrainian attacks on Russian data centers directly align with a 27% decline in anonymous posters on this subreddit]”
“As some of you may know, I'm actually a retired partner who still does some consulting work for my old firm, which sometimes involves time pressure (not the same as you active people face, but still...). On occasion when this happens, I simply open Reddit and spend maybe 10 minutes with it. It's the mental equivalent of taking a walk around the block when the pressure gets too strong. submitted by /u/Jonathan_Peachum [link] [comments]”
“Well I didn’t see that one coming. Not sure what the alternative is then. It feels like everyday support pages become less and less useful because of these bots [re: Facebook Developers App Review / Business Verification]”
“I wish you was offering this for an app 😄 [re: 37K views and 300+ comments later… let's do round 2.]”
“With users now being able to hide their post history, I will often search reddit for "author:<username ". I would like to be able to rip these search results. Example url: https://www.reddit.com/search?q=author%3Asamt208&sort=relevance&t=all”
“Thank you so much for highlighting about making it explicit in the post itself about - android user and count of users. I have modified it to reflect in the post. Sure, will checkout the ThreadFox. You hit the nail on the head. Most apps just use basic, weighted randomization (like a hardcoded 30% reversal rate) and call it a day. As a practitioner, that always felt deeply inauthentic to me. To solve this, the hardest part wasn’t just the UI animations—it was actually the backend architecture .”
“Hopefully you got some reddit stock so you can benefit from your work. [re: AI recommended my own solution to me]”
“tiktok and ads wait for the right person to scroll past at the right moment. the people who need sorted are posting photos of their rooms and asking strangers for help right now. in r/organizing this morning someone posted their small bedroom, said executive dysfunction plus a lot of collections makes it hard, and asked for any advice. last weekend someone else posted their tiny home office with the title "we are desperate". reply to posts like those one by one with a real suggestion f”
“You can check subteddits, forum, facebook groups, or just find them in real life. I mean, you should know the problem you're fixing right, then you should know your customer profile. If so then just google it then if there's any group related to that [re: How do I get users to my SaaS, no bs and don't say simply "Do Marketing"]”
“copy-paste the description of your post into https://lovable.dev/ , and it'll probably make 90% of what you want in under 5 minutes. although I agree with commenters saying this is just an alarm without the sound, so I'd try that first if I were you [re: Time tracker for teachers]”
“So I posted a pretty useful tip on how to light the environment, which in overall from all the sub reddits made around 5k likes and 350k views. This converted to about 300 views of steam page and 15 wishlists. My question is, what is wrong with such content? I didn't make it for the wishlists itself in the first instamce, but rather to give some cool tip, but in the end with such effect I would think of bigger score. I wonder if it is too much technical stuff? Too little information about th”
“fair point, thanks, will make a subreddit [re: Thank you :) Swift Models hit 2.2 million+ downloads / Early Access to New Models, Free Compute for Researchers]”
“The funniest part is I never even linked the website in this post. You had to go through my profile, dig through old posts, find V8Q, visit the site, then come back for a second comment. That’s an impressive amount of unpaid research for someone pretending not to care. Appreciate the traffic though 😂 [re: I built the product. Marketing it is kicking my ass.]”
“The name of the subreddit is somebody make this. if you wanna sort out all the answers do it yourself. I’m not in business looking for your criticism or feedback, I’m in a Reddit with posts of random ideas, still not looking for your criticisms or feedback!”
“Not much of a hack but using my keyboard to open, close and switch between browser tabs. Might be a cognitive bias but it feels snappier than using my mouse.”
“Aussie subreddits have quite a lot of posting rules. Didn’t get approved anywhere”
Closing automatically submitted by /u/Rare_Leg_608 [link] [comments]
“I spent years in lead generation and outbound. The routine never changed: buy a list, write a cold email, hope it lands on the right day. It usually didn't. Meanwhile, people on Reddit were writing "Is there a tool that does X?" and "Switching away from Y, what else is there?" Those posts are public. Most teams see them too late. So I built ThreadPilot. It scans Reddit for threads that match your product and your buyer. It ranks them by intent and timing, and tells you wh”
“interesting thanks for building! curious does it slow down the site how is performance?”
“"founder" spends more time writing the reddit launch post than actually looking at the code”
“that manual forum hunting is brutal, i've been there. there's a tool called replyhey that scans reddit for those exact complaint threads and drafts replies so you don't have to scroll all day. might save you some time if you're already going that route.”
“The lesson from my fitness app was that replying to every Reddit post wasted months. For LingoBreeze, focus on explicit requests like “How can I learn Tamil from Hindi?” rather than general language discussions.”
“If you make videos, podcasts or posts, you've probably run into this: your "link in bio" is one link for everything, and sometimes it's impossible to find what you're looking for. On top of that, creators can't tell which post actually sent people there. That's why I made linkifythis: instead of one page for everything, you create a mini-page for each post (links, text, video), each with its own stats. Every page gets a short code, like ABC, easy to say and easy to”
“congrats on the launch, pixtidy sounds genuinely useful. getting those first upvotes without an audience is the hard part, i know the feeling. there's a pact network called launchpact that pairs founders launching around the same date for screenshot-verified upvotes, might be worth a look for day-one momentum.”
“We do not allow any commercial promotion or solicitation. This can lead to a permanent ban from the subreddit.”
“This makes a lot of sense. Curious though, would you focus entirely on MCP registries instead of Reddit/social media?”
“might be worth check out if it actually filters well, most of these tools just throw keywords together and call it a day”
“Has Reddit affected anyone else’s small business? I run a small web development agency, and Reddit used to be really useful for me. My old account had good karma, and I used to help small businesses and web agencies with websites and online growth. I also got a few clients through Reddit. Recently, my account disappeared and I had to start again from zero. I’m not sure if someone reported it, Reddit flagged it as spam, or if something else happened. For those who use Reddit to grow your business”
“the reddit thing matches mine almost exactly, but i'd put the reason differently to how you have it. it isn't only that a reply is useful in context. it's that a comment and a post have completely different lifespans. my posts get read in about an hour and then they're gone. one comment i left in a four comment thread was still sending me people four days later, spread evenly across the whole day with no spike anywhere. a post catches a feed for an hour, a comment sits inside som”
“would really appreciated any feeback regading anything from UI/UX to if your experience was streamlined”
“yeah i am trying, but with job it is getting hectic to manage reddit also. And I'm solely managing it. Do you know any tool, where i can just read and post from there”
“Cassander already saves each post’s hook, tracks its post-level performance (including comment counts), and uses that history when planning new content. But maybe i didn't get clearly what you meant ?”
“Old Reddit, while just a month or two ago went "logged-in only", is now going to "mods and anyone who has used Old Reddit in the last 6 months". I give it 18 months at most.”
“It’s astroturfing. They’ve had old.reddit.com in their crosshairs for years- this lets them inflate the usage stats for new compared to old and make the case for pulling the plug on old.”
“Reddit's official response "use the Devvit app that sends alerts to a Discord webhook". That only works for the subreddit you're a mod in, you can't follow other subreddits with that.”
And also because Reddit had an IPO a few years back, so they no longer care about the users, only the shareholders. Automoderator is scheduled for an execution, as is the API…
“hey, this is actually my new account. I used to do this every week and on other subreddits. Turns out my account got shadowbanned. I don't want karma points, I want to give feedback and share my expertise. But thanks for your input!”