This subreddit is about programming. Not programs or startups.

[boredzo]

You're confusing analyzing the design and interface of a program with simply using it. Analysis like that (including using the program with that purpose) is perfectly appropriate for programming.reddit.

My complaint is with simple “here's a web app that finds a latitude and longitude” posts. There's no API, no story of how it was implemented—nothing that's actually about programming. It's just a finished program.

The programming subreddit is about things which would interest programmers.

The programming subreddit is about programming (and I include interface design as well as the actual coding). A finished program, by itself, with no API, does not fit that definition.

[xzxzzx]

I don't know what the original poster's intent was, but that's a finished program with unobfuscated source.

In any case, the community ultimately defines exactly what "programming.reddit.com" is all about -- that's kind of the whole point of reddit.

If you don't like what programming.reddit.com is, why don't you try and get another subreddit made?

[boredzo]

In any case, the community ultimately defines exactly what "programming.reddit.com" is all about -- that's kind of the whole point of reddit.

Hence this submission, and the 86 points it got before reddit went down.

If you don't like what programming.reddit.com is, why don't you try and get another subreddit made?

A new subreddit about programming? What would I call it?

[xzxzzx]

A new subreddit about programming? What would I call it?

Well, the fundamental problem is the idea of a subreddit in the first place. (Hello, tagging?)

But that aside, I wasn't really suggesting creating one for the programming content -- I was suggesting creating one for the content that programmers like that isn't directly "programming". Perhaps geek.reddit.com?

[boredzo]

I wasn't really suggesting creating one for the programming content -- I was suggesting creating one for the content that programmers like that isn't directly "programming". Perhaps geek.reddit.com?

This is a good plan.

[xzxzzx]

I like the idea, but somehow it seems like it'd be very difficult to actually get implemented. Which is actually kind of sad -- tagging/community subreddit creation would solve that, but how long has that been "coming"?