The new default subreddit list is hardly the biggest change Reddit has made to its front page content in the last few months. But perhaps the most unique addition to the list is /r/explainlikeimfive, a subreddit that offers answers to complex questions that are simple enough for a young child to understand. GIF file format), /r/earthporn (beautiful photos of nature), /r/television, and /r/books. Some of the subreddits that made the new default list include /r/gifs (humorous animated images in the. Overall, they just haven’t continued to grow and evolve like the other subreddits we’ve decided to add.” “Now, don’t get us wrong, there still ARE good parts about them. “ just weren’t up to snuff,” wrote Reddit general manager Erik Martin in a blog post. Instead, the decision to remove those two subreddits was more about pushing the best subreddit content to the top, Reddit told its community of users today. Reddit is a very politically active company and is no stranger to standing up for things it believes in. In fact, Unidan should get the spot of honor between the links to /r/random and /r/pics.This wasn’t a move to tone down controversial or sensitive content that appears on the site. His comments are so prolific and consistently informative that they deserve to be enshrined as a default subreddit. /u/Unidan–Unidan–AKA The Excited Biologist and former Redditor of the Day–is much loved for his detailed and humorous answers to other users’ questions about biology.If you want to understand the impact a single Random Act of Pizza can have, read this comment by grateful user toxlab. /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza–Speaking of pizza, every time someone derides Redditors as a mob of neck-bearded pedophiles who are paradoxically obsessed with vigilante justice, I want to send them to /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza, where Redditors buy pizza for strangers in need of some delicious mozzarella-smothered comfort.
I felt unsettled for days afterward, but browsing through /r/singularity helped me accept my fate as part of the cat-snuggling, pizza-munching borg. My frontal lobes were, of course, the front page and the cortical areas were the various defaults (especially /r/wtf), while some of the darker subreddits were tucked away into my amygdala. /r/singularity–I once dreamed that my brain turned into Reddit.Who knew young Charlie Chaplin and James Deen (link NSFW) look almost exactly alike?
/r/colorizedhistory–Talented Redditors bring vintage photos to glowing life./r/powerwashingporn–You’ll need a shower after browsing the photos in this subreddit.But /r/gonecivil is proof that modesty can be erotic and a strategically-placed snow cone or Skittles package can enhance even the most nubile body. /r/gonecivil- Out of all the subreddits, /r/gonewild (link NSFW), where Redditors post naked self-portraits, probably receives the most coverage in mainstream news outlets.
These include /r/books, /r/earthporn, /r/explainlikeimfive, /r/television and /r/gifs, all of which were added to the new lineup. While those five subreddits are certainly worthy of more attention, there are hundreds of subreddits that fly under the radar despite being filled with front page-worthy material. Here are a few that deserve to be honored with a place on the navigation bar. Some Redditors worried that this was evidence the site is “going mainstream,” but CEO Yishan Wong responded that the change is to highlight subreddits that “show a lot of promise.” As part of the new Reddit switcheroo, /r/politics and /r/atheism, two of the most controversial areas on the site, were booted off the links Reddit users see before they log in. Reddit just changed its default subreddits for the first time since October 2011.