If you like being the center of attention at parties, FB is your place
If you like attention in the middle of a public square, twitter is for you
If you're an introvert, gotta nerd out on reddit
I don't see them as competitors
Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
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Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#72HN should prey Reddit keeps their marbles together, because you all know the place big chunk of their ursebase would fled to. I know I did.
I'm very thankful the user culture and the moderation policy here is geared towards productive discussion on focused topics. It's not a one size fits all social media site, its meant for tech and startup discussion. Plus, people don't seem to reward stupid puns, pithy comments, twitter style "hot takes", begging for upvotes, etc.. I would hope this keeps HN somewhat inoculated from becoming another Reddit.
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#73Of that 52M how many are bots, and how many are their toxic subs?
Bots are a huge problem for advertisement industry and social media in general. One good solution to this problem is as following: * In order to post content, accounts must be purchased based on a spot fee. For example, if suddenly 10 fold more people want to open accounts then spot price will rise to 60 dollars from a base price of 6 dollars. * This can be done through BTC payments instead of dollars to protect iden…
Do you think random internet users are more likely to purchase accounts than advertising departments? The fee seems like a good way to only get posts from professional CMs. This is how you get only advertisement.
And unless you put a similar fee to unlock voting, you don't prevent a whole class of issues with bots.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#74On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).
As others have said, it being called old.reddit means it will get killed. And it's already happening, new features either don't work at all or are broken, existing features are rotting apart, it's definitely not a priority.
The future is in communities operating their own site and running it the way they want. Politics aside, thedonald.win is a great example. The interface is way better and less buggy, and the community is cohesive.
If you look at reddit facebook twitter instagram, their design paradigm is not to facilitate discussion, but to break it apart into a bunch of ad-separated pieces and then stash it away, never to be findable again. Almost like what people say about qwerty layout.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
sticking to a very old design, and refusing to update and adapt to current design patterns and styles while everything about technology/devices and how we use them changes daily: feels like a sub-culture
Do you get that vibe from Craigslist?
The only reason why I use Craigslist is for the network effect. The site is garbage but I haven't found a sufficient alternative.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know that Reddit admins read HN so please please do not kill off old.reddit.com. The redesign is absolute garbage. Normally I don’t express such strong sentiment on HN but I’ve been a Reddit user for 10 years and I genuinely like the communities, but not enough to suffer through the new website.
I'm not sure how many of the current admins read HN. I just know some of us old guys hang around here. And FWIW I agree with you. I've been a 15 year reddit user (and employee!) but if old.reddit goes away, I suspect my usage will go way down. The good news is that the current execs know this, because I have told them. But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us…
> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us who like the old interface aren't large in number.
Do people actually prefer the new interface [on its merits], or do they just use it because it's the default?
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#77On a side note, really hope reddit's engineering team doesn't kill off their 'old.reddit.com' domain though. That's probably the only thing keeping me from dumping reddit altogether (aside from their API-powered custom reddit apps made by indie devs for Android).
I know that Reddit admins read HN so please please do not kill off old.reddit.com. The redesign is absolute garbage. Normally I don’t express such strong sentiment on HN but I’ve been a Reddit user for 10 years and I genuinely like the communities, but not enough to suffer through the new website.
Huh, there's no difference for me. How do you tell if you're using the redesigned UI or not?
[edit] If I open reddit in incognito then I can see the redesign, otherwise I can't. Maybe I opted out of the redesign at some point? Can't see anything about it in settings though
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure how many of the current admins read HN. I just know some of us old guys hang around here. And FWIW I agree with you. I've been a 15 year reddit user (and employee!) but if old.reddit goes away, I suspect my usage will go way down. The good news is that the current execs know this, because I have told them. But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us…
> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us who like the old interface aren't large in number. Do people actually prefer the new interface [on its merits], or do they just use it because it's the default?
The is a big generation of lots of pictures = good. I am sure it is better to those users. Think pinterest uses and Etsy shoppers.
Old reddit is more like BBS or old school message boards. People who grew up on this are a dying breed... probably also worth less to advertisers as we use adblock.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#79Good for Reddit, but I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with the entire site and how it's managed. The astroturfing isn't even subtle and the same few dozens of accounts dominate the front page day in and day out. The content on the frontpage, r/popular, r/all is starting to congeal into screenshots of tweets. The mods of the biggest subreddits don't seem to care if the content that gets posted actually lives up…
As a non-US citizen, the amount of US politics content is frankly way too much. It affects subs that should have been apolitical, like r/pics, r/science, r/coronavirus. I hoped things would calm down a bit after US elections- it did, but not nearly enough.
Truth is, I personally wouldn't mind political content, I regularly read NYT, obsessed over every update in last US election. My problem with Reddit is that there really isn't interesting political content, same old DT-bad-AOC-good over and over again.
Some niche subs are exception, but they won't ever make front page, and will be heavily brigaded if they ever do.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure how many of the current admins read HN. I just know some of us old guys hang around here. And FWIW I agree with you. I've been a 15 year reddit user (and employee!) but if old.reddit goes away, I suspect my usage will go way down. The good news is that the current execs know this, because I have told them. But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us…
> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us who like the old interface aren't large in number. Do people actually prefer the new interface [on its merits], or do they just use it because it's the default?
>or do they just use it because it's the default?
Yes. My wife started browsing reddit only after the redesign. She had no interest the in the old interface. The new design really has a familiar look/feel for new users accustom to most common mainstream social media designs.