Reddit today launches multireddits in beta. In this feature you can build your own front pages by combining multiple subreddits. If you are a Gold member, you can check this beta now at /r/multibeta
To create Multireddits by combining multiple subreddits, but only in the form of custom URLs (like /r/atheism+space+nasa+astronomy). Now Reddit says it wants to make multis “as ubiquitous and powerful as subreddits.” The company says it has spent the past six months working on making multis easier to create and share, and it hopes they will be key to ensuring the community continues to thrive.
In the company’s own words::
If subreddits give you the power to create your own reddit community, then multireddits give you the power to create your own public reddit front pages, each with their own selections of subreddits. We have reached the point where one front page can’t do reddit justice. So let’s make 9000! This functionality has been around for years in the form of creating custom URLs like /r/space+nasa+astronomy, but the goal is to make these distinct slices of reddit as ubiquitous and powerful as subreddits. In the process of curating and sharing these different front pages, there lies the potential to breathe life into smaller, more specific communities, because you can now participate in an order of magnitude more of them.
Reddit has been working on this project for 6 months, and today they are finally launched and letting more users in on the fun.