How Hivemind r/ You?

Guess the most upvoted comment on real Reddit threads!

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Inspiration

You're scrolling through Reddit when a thread catches your eye. You think of a funny response. You chuckle to yourself and click open to see...

The top comment. It's exactly what you were thinking.

Word. For. Word.

It's an experience familiar to every Redditor. In these moments, you truly feel in tune with the hivemind. How Hivemind r/ You? captures that experience in a fun game to test just how connected to the hivemind you are.

What it does

How Hivemind r/ You? pulls a new set of threads from a curated list of subreddits each day and presents a quiz where the user is tasked with guessing the most upvoted comment.

How I built it

I built How Hivemind r/ You? using Devvit's APIs and redis cache. The posts are stored each day so that players all have the exact same experience.

Challenges we ran into

User-Generated Content

As I write this from the deck of the good ship Boaty McBoatface, something occurs to me: user generated content is volatile. Subreddits are varied and comments are wild. To make the game interesting, I've had to sift through various subreddits to find which would be the most compatible for a quiz game.

Ethical Considerations

You just know a game is going to be fun when you see the heading "Ethical Considerations!"

Reddit hosts a variety of different communities with different purposes. There are some serious and personal discussions on Reddit. While some subreddits and posts are good candidates for the quiz, it's important to be respectful to the posters and realize that the gravity of some stories are not appropriate for a game.

To address this, I added a "Report" feature. This way, the same community which contributes to the questions can help make sure the game is a safe and respectable place.

Accomplishments of which I am proud

I'm proud of the branding of the project! I think the idea of the hivemind connects well with Redditors. For the subreddit logo, I'm simplifying the game title to "r/?" This has a couple meanings. Firstly, r/ being paired with a question mark should immediately be recognizable to the user as "that subreddit quiz game". Secondly, since the game uses a random subreddit each day, r/? could represent: what subreddit am I going to see today?

What we learned

The lesson I am perpetually learning: read the docs!

What's next for How Hivemind r/ You?

I'm hoping this can become a nice place for Redditors to discover interesting new subreddits. I'd like to start a discussion on what subreddits would be good for the challenge.

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