i was just checking the Top contributors on a few subreddits where i used to hangout. Top contributors are banned by Reddit's AI.
But why? when you become top contributor, there are many people who will report you, but there is no system for reporting someone for "good work".
Users with 100s of highly upvoted posts with 10s of thousands of karma, all their content gone! I had bookmarked some of the content.
As a result in Reddit, many top contributors across many subreddit have been banned by Reddit's AI.
what's interesting is, i DMed those subreddit Mods and asked them, why X who is top contributor is banned and those Mods told me they don't want him banned but reddit simply deleted all posts from that user and they can do nothing about it!
Imagine, subreddit specific mods setting a user as "approved user" only to have Reddit ban and delete all of their post.
I wish someone comes up with a Reddit alternative where content is owned by users and not "reddit" and banning someone requires a proper procedure, not just because Reddit Site Wide Mods did not like their content.
Your project reminds me of something I built a while ago using Pollination.ai for images, Gemini Flash for script / captions / inserting transitions and all other editing, Google Cloud TTS for narration/voice, and FFmpeg drive by flash, back then Gemini Flash 2.5 (free) is what i used for these experiments. The result looked like this:
I wasn't happy with how it turned out, so after making 3–4 videos I dropped the idea.
Later, I came across several different video styles that consistently kept me watching. That's when I realized what my videos were missing they simply didn't have the same ability to capture and hold attention.
But i never managed to generate those styles after dozens of attempts and gave up.
These are the two styles that consistently keep me watching. I can't really describe them well in words, so I linked the videos directly to avoid losing important details in the translation from visual format to text.
Maybe someone with more experience in video production can explain what techniques are being used here and why they're so effective at holding viewers' attention.
For example, I have several posts that explain concepts in detail, with supporting images. They're written in Markdown, and I keep refining them until I'm confident that the average person can read them and immediately understand the concept.
The problem is that text is becoming a less popular medium for learning, while short form videos are increasingly being used to explain the same ideas.
From what I can tell, this tool only lets you provide a prompt. Can it turn my existing Markdown posts and images into videos, or is it mainly intended for generating videos from simple prompts? I'm looking for something that preserves the explanations I've already written rather than creating something entirely new.
Bodybuilders, well they immediately understand the app on first impression.
One user told me he has kidney disease and asked if I could add a “low protein” diet mode, so he could reduce protein intake below standard recommendations. I had never faced this requirement before, but after hearing him out, I decided to add it. This is just one of the many interactions.
Then there is another group, people who have spent a long time being underweight or overweight and have started attributing it to genetics. I often see posts like “I am genetically fat” or “I am an ectomorph / hardgainer"; "I can’t gain weight no matter how much I eat” in subreddits and fitness groups. Don't you dare to call them out of anything, they'll get mad! but are willing to give app try especially if they hear about it from someone else.
They typically use it for 2–5 weeks, and then they start gaining or losing weight depending on their goal. They are genuinely surprised that it’s possible.
Once they start seeing results, they usually just keep going.
I am not particularly good at communication, nor a guy with social skill.
>I’ve rarely gotten useful answers from support from services I use. I thought if I used my own product every day, read every email and answered it thoughtfully, people would appreciate this, and it would build some degree of loyalty and appreciation.
I run an app with 16,000 users and receive 2–5 support tickets per week. I read every one of them.
Around 20% of my app has been built based on user suggestions.
People are generally kind and promote my app across multiple platforms for free. I don't have any budget for marketing.
Users don't always show their appreciation with words. Instead, they show it by eagerly helping resolve issues providing clear steps to reproduce bugs, sending screenshots or videos, and responding quickly to follow up questions. I also regularly come across people recommending my app on Reddit or in YouTube comment sections, which often surprises me. :)
If you're supporting your users well, they're probably giving back in their own way too. :)
Well, I was talking about myself. I used to learn mostly through videos, but I often struggled to apply what I'd watched. Over time, I realized I learn best by reading, writing, and actually putting things into practice, rather than passively consuming videos. Videos often gave me the illusion that I was learning, but later I'd have trouble recalling or using what I'd learned. I don't have that problem with text.
I grew a fitness subreddit to 100,000 members from 0. A fitness sub, after sometime, reddit mod team came up with list of possible moderators, I looked at them most of them were fake accounts shilling for some supplement company.
I was also offered money by supplement companies to promote supplements on our sub which I never accepted.
Unfortunately, reddit mod team is of no use, they cannot really tell who is high quality contributor vs who is getting nuked by fake accounts created by competitors/supplement companies etc...
I was busy building a sensorless maintenance calorie tracker.
Sometime back i posted this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614890
It also has "sedentary" detection which i find pretty useful for the phases when my activity level drops, reduced activity directly reflects in your maintenance calories which maybe useful to some.
one of the best proxy we've for Hypertrophy is getting progressively stronger in medium rep range. (8-12)
The title says they are focused on improving body composition which is boosting lean mass, lowering of fat mass which kinda seems achieved best by focusing on Hypertrophy and fat loss?