▲ 105 ▼ How exactly did Reddit become a top website and what does Lemmy need to do to eventually get there? (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by decadentrebel@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 146 comments fedilink hide all child comments Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?
[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 20 points 3 years ago (4 children) I think we should prioritize SEO. If you get a link to a Lemmy post you can’t see the contents nor the comments of the post until you click a further link. Or at least I can’t. And that means google can’t either. We need to get to the point where people are adding “Lemmy” to their search posts like they do for Reddit today. Doing a google search for “best budget backpack Lemmy” should bring up results like “best budget backpack Reddit” does today. permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) It doesn't help that the thread URLs are some old school "post/4268567". I also noticed that the markdown format is included (e.g. the hashmarks for headings, asterisks for bold/italics) in search results while every other site doesn't look like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kenbw2@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago Yea it's a shame the URL isn't post/5784366/title_formatted_for_url permalink fedilink source parent [–] Nurgle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago This isn’t the only answer but it’s a big one. Having both the communities where people can authoritatively answer niche questions and the ability for new people to find those communities/questions is absolutely critical. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nix@merv.news 2 points 3 years ago What do you mean you cant see the comments until you click a further link? What do you see when you click on this https://lemmy.world/post/2383782 i see the post and all the comments? permalink fedilink source parent [+] Falafels@aussie.zone 1 point 3 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child) It doesn't help that the thread URLs are some old school "post/4268567". I also noticed that the markdown format is included (e.g. the hashmarks for headings, asterisks for bold/italics) in search results while every other site doesn't look like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kenbw2@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago Yea it's a shame the URL isn't post/5784366/title_formatted_for_url permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kenbw2@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago Yea it's a shame the URL isn't post/5784366/title_formatted_for_url permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nurgle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago This isn’t the only answer but it’s a big one. Having both the communities where people can authoritatively answer niche questions and the ability for new people to find those communities/questions is absolutely critical. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nix@merv.news 2 points 3 years ago What do you mean you cant see the comments until you click a further link? What do you see when you click on this https://lemmy.world/post/2383782 i see the post and all the comments? permalink fedilink source parent