• tal@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    I don’t know if RIF was exposing that underlying functionality, but Reddit had native support for that in the Web UI. It was called a multireddit, could “merge” the contents of multiple subreddits.

    https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043043412-What-is-a-custom-feed-and-how-do-I-make-one

    Reddit also had native support for ad-hoc merged views of subreddits. You could do multiple subreddits combined with a “+”, and Reddit would create a view with posts from both.

    I never got much out of either functionality myself. The latter feature I saw mostly used by people creating “mega porn views” that merged many different NSFW subreddits.

    A client could theoretically do that here at the client level, but AFAIK there’s no comparable server-side support.

    EDIT: Hmm. Apparently people also do the same porn thing merging multiple NSFW subreddits with the multireddit feature; here’s one user’s multireddit consisting of the “top 100” – now apparently 94 – NSFW subreddits merged.

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      3 months ago

      Multiple - that was it. Thanks!

      I loved being able to group news/posts according to subject. Feel like news related to only one group today - no problem!