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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

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Post by Trasmatta »

newsbinator wrote: post #139
Trasmatta wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, and I feel like it's inevitable at some point. Either some day someone will do the math and determine they can get a lot more ad revenue if they force everyone to use the new design, or they'll decide the cost of maintaining two versions of the site's frontend is too high.

Is there much to maintain on old.reddit.com? It lacks all the features that make new Reddit annoying and slow, and it doesn't need to gain any new ones. It's basically a graphical version of the core api, which is solid.

The cost is probably relatively low (but not negligible). I could imagine a future though where they decide to make some big breaking changes to the API, and decide it's not worth updating the old site.

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

abhiminator wrote: post #3

On 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).

The problem is that the medium is the message, and while you might be using old.reddit.com, most of the other people posting are using the new site. That has lowered the quality of discourse.

I first noticed this when people on hobby reddits started asking FAQs that had already been answered in the sidebar – the new design now hid the sidebar from users. So, subreddits where newbies typically got answers before they had to post basic questions, have devolved into people asking the same basic questions over and over again.

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Post by heavyset_go »

abhiminator wrote: post #3

On 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).

If old.reddit.com goes, so will I. I've already stopped using Reddit altogether on mobile devices because of being tricked into loading the redesign, and because of the nagging. It's really no skin off my back to stop using a site that's slow and has a bad user experience.

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Post by AmericanChopper »

billmalarky wrote: post #145
ardy42 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

From the article: >Reddit Inc. said it averaged 52 million daily active users in October, up 44% from the same month a year earlier The redesign launched in 2018, so I'd say yes, the general public greatly prefers the redesign if they had almost 50% growth last year. Could there be other factors? Sure. But Occam's razor is a solid argument in this context imo.

Did you know that tax revenue almost always increases after a tax cut? Did you also know that tax revenue almost always increases after a tax increase? Aren’t statistics cool?

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Post by umvi »

jedberg wrote: post #63
isatty wrote: post #28

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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…

old interface was just way more information dense. That's my main complaint with new UI. Even with "compact" mode on the new UI, it's not as dense as the old one.

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Post by phaus »

isatty wrote: post #28
abhiminator wrote: post #3

On 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.

>I know that Reddit admins read HN so please please do not kill off old.reddit.com. The redesign is absolute garbage.

People have ben telling them this for years. They know and do not give a shit or at the very least they are powerless to do anything. The redesign is so bad I'll stop using reddit completely if they ever kill the old domain. Its almost like they intentionally tried to make the least functional website possible.

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Post by brink »

ciarannolan wrote: post #157
BitwiseFool wrote: post #21

Good 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…

> At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool, with the goal of bombarding users with the same views in every major subreddit. +1 It's not even subtle anymore. You can predict with 99% accuracy the ideology of any political statements in content on the first 10 pages of r/all. It's a 52M daily user echo chamber.

And anyone with a dissenting opinion is chased off of the site. I had to stop using it over the staggering amount of groupthink and censorship.

Didn't they champion themselves as the bastions of free speech at one point?

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Post by birdsbirdsbirds »

lebaux wrote: post #56

HN 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.

When it comes to non-startup content, then hn is not the best choice. lobste.rs and lemmy.ml are more user friendly, and then there are plenty of other options, as can be seen in the subreddit for reddit alternatives.

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Post by Fiveplus »

marrone12 wrote: post #156
ardy42 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

I think it looks better. Better fonts, better element spacing. It just does not perform very well and seems to have a lot of "state" issues or inconsistent design elements. Reading comments and browsing is slower than it used to be, but I prefer the new look to the old one.

Good UI, bad UX.
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