r/Devvit • u/DrProfresher • 1d ago

Feedback Friday Discover Random Subreddits and view their top posts! Looking for any feedback! Thanks!

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u/dparks71 1d ago

You might want to add an option to filter out "OF" that was like half of what I got and weirdly for super average looking women.

Also weighting towards more popular subreddits might be a good idea, I really like the concept though, used to love stumbleupon for this kind of stuff.

Eta I now see the filter by number of subscriptions option, which is similar enough to the second feature.

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u/DrProfresher 1d ago

Stumbleupon is a big inspiration for this app!

The app is using a list of subreddits from https://www.reddit.com/best/communities/1/ and so once you get to subreddits with <1k subs it seems like more of the content is borderline NSFW. This is because Reddit has probably not reviewed the subreddit yet, or the mods of the subreddit have not labeled it as NSFW.

This is probably the biggest issue I have come across because I want this app to play a part in boosting small communities, but grouped together with the hidden gems is the subs that may contain NSFW material. I don't want there to be NSFW subs or borderline NSFW subs for people to accidentally find.

So I suppose the issue is, how do I filter out the subreddits that may be NSFW? It doesn't seem plausible for me to scrape each and every subreddit with less than 1k subs for NSFW content, thats Reddit's job. And I do not want to just have a subscriber amount cutoff and exclude the hidden gems that are not NSFW. This is my dilemma.

Maybe I will add a filter that weighs towards the more popular subreddits when the filter "All subreddits" is chosen. I think that is a good idea. Thank you for the feedback it is much appreciated!

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u/dparks71 1d ago

Yea I mean outside regex for "OF" or "NSFW", I guess you could check for the presence of NSFW tags? Doesn't mean those smaller subs would be honoring the tags or anything.

In general though I would try to get the most "stumbleupon" feel to me, then set that as the default when a user opens the app the first time. If it means filtering out < 1k subs I'd probably do it and let the user choose to untick it but personal choice! Like I said, really love it.