Graham King

Solvitas perambulum

Eddit: Reddit without the Rrrr!

software
Summary
Eddit is a bookmarklet designed to streamline your Reddit experience by displaying 50 items from pages one and two, eliminating the next button to encourage productivity, and employing floating filters to remove distracting content like pictures, US politics, swearing, posts about Reddit, and sensationalistic posts (WTF, OMG). To use Eddit, bookmark the provided JavaScript link, navigate to Reddit, and click the bookmark. This tool effectively reduces distractions and enhances content signal by using JQuery, and it originally started as a proxy before transitioning to a bookmarklet to comply with Reddit's TOS.

Eddit is a bookmarklet for Reddit, which gives you more signal and less of the noise that makes you go Rrrr! Here’s how it improves reddit:

  • 50 items on the page (reddit pages 1 and 2)
    • No next button at the bottom. You read then you go back to work.
    • Floating filter removing the things that make you go Rrrrrr!
      • pictures
      • US politics
      • swearing (curse)
      • posts about reddit
      • WTF, OMG.

Right click on the link below and bookmark it, then browse to reddit and click the bookmark.

Eddit: Reddit bookmarklet

Tested on Firefox 3, Opera 9 and IE 7.

The idea is to reduce the noise and up the signal. The filters mean less noise, the 50 items mean more signal, and the lack of ‘next’ button means less distraction.

Eddit uses jQuery which reddit already pulls in. The bookmarklet simply loads and runs a Javascript file from my server. If you want to modify it, here is the non-minified source code of Eddit. If you change it remember to edit your bookmarklet to load your new file.

Historical note: Eddit was originally built on AppJet as a proxy, but that violated Reddit’s TOS, and it really belonged on the client anyway, so it’s a bookmarklet now.