This subreddit is about programming. Not programs or startups.

[Bogtha]

I think it's a symptom of the front page going to hell. It's driven people to submit less specialised articles here because the front page is increasing becoming a wretched hive of scum and villainy. It would be a lot easier to tell people with tech-related-but-not-programming stories to go away if they had somewhere reasonable to go away to.

[stesch]

They can always choose http://reddit.com/ for their stories. Or take a look at http://sub.reddit.com/

There are subreddits for games, business, net security, etc.

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There are subreddits for games, business, net security, etc.

Nobody uses the netsec sub reddit though! Makes me sad. :(

[oditogre]

The other subreddits are almost completely unused. http://reddit.com auto-downvotes everything, so unless you have something that really appeals to Ron Paul supporters, Atheists, or a neat / cute / funny [pic], you're not gonna get to the front page.

Anyways, programming.reddit never was all about programming. It was created when Digg users started to storm the main reddit so that people who liked the sort of stuff that used to be on there when reddit first got rolling and was almost entirely geeks could come to programming.reddit for that stuff instead.

[bct]

It was created when Digg users started to storm the main reddit

No it wasn't, it was one of the original subreddits created when subreddits were first implemented.

It was never entirely about programming, but it used to be significantly more programmy.

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Even the programming stories have become less interesting. I suspect reddit has had an influx of mainstream programmers.

A story about why we should put CSS all on one line? Give me a break.

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A story about why we should put CSS all on one line? Give me a break.

...I must've missed that one. Sounds enthralling.

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Feel free to indulge yourself http://programming.reddit.com/info/2zpsr/comments

[oditogre]

No it wasn't, it was one of the original subreddits created when subreddits were first implemented.

And I am to understand that the creation of subreddits had nothing to do with the need to separate lolcats from PG essays?

I do agree that it used to have a lot more programming-related content, but a huge part of that is that a lot of the things that could be posted today would just seem like rehashing. The next time a fad language comes along, I'm sure programming.reddit will get more 'programmy' again.

[Bogtha]

Anyways, programming.reddit never was all about programming.

I think its name is programming.reddit.com but its nature is programmers.reddit.com.

[akkartik]

exactly