Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

wsj.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

211–220 of 483 posts

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

#211

Post by Spare_account »

jedberg wrote: post #154
abc-xyz wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Source? If you made old.reddit.com the default layout, how many users do you think would go through the same trouble to use the new.reddit.com layout?

No they wouldn’t seek out the new interface. They just bounce. When they first launched the new interface some new users got the new one and some new users got the old one. The bounce rate for the new one was lower and the signup rate was higher.

You were asked for a source though. You've just expanded on your point but without a source.

As it happens I am an old.reddit.com dinosaur that finds your argument plausible, but I'm interested to see the data as well.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

#212

Post by forgotmypw17 »

fernandotakai wrote: post #39
Someone1234 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They just discontinued subreddit chat rooms too, which was a massive embarrassing back-tracking on a highly controversial feature. https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/jwme40/deprecating... Reddit's whole philosophy with chat was just to shove it down everyone's throats, and see if it sticks. The spammers loved it right from the get-go, but nobody else is using it.

thank god. i got spammed so hard by it for a while -- and the worst part is that there was no way to avoid said spam.

I stopped checking it because 95% of it was harrassment for modding.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

#213

Post by Mediterraneo10 »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #203
Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The admins can put messages and links in the new sidebar though.

There is no visible sidebar on the modern mobile interface, though.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

#214

Post by zjaffee »

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.

Yup, basically anything either left or right of center is kicked off the platform. And even then they're very pick and choosey over that stuff.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

#215

Post by forgotmypw17 »

tenpies wrote: post #196
doc_gunthrop wrote: post #54

reddit may have been a good site a decade or so ago, but in its current state it's mostly a propaganda machine to manipulate clueless rubes. One look at the front page makes this glaringly obvious. The only remotely productive way to use reddit is by being selective with what subs you check out. Avoid the larger subreddits at all cost.

The only useful thing to me is to append "Reddit" to some Google searches for certain niches. occasionally it brings up a post describing exactly what I'm looking for. It's always an old post though unless I'm searching for the latest in the US Democratic party's talking points, then I can just go to Reddit.

I used to do that, but lately it seems to ignore my "don,t use new layout" setting, which makes the pages largely useless to me...

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

#216

Post by vxNsr »

cgearhart wrote: post #17

It’s been one less since their app started spamming my phone with notifications a few months ago. I suspect those kinds of engagement hooks are part of the reason they have been pushing the app so hard, but I got so tired of it that I uninstalled it from my phone. Fortunately they’ve also made the mobile/web experience so horrible that I’m not even tempted to wade back in. I had been a daily user for more than 10 yea…

I don’t understand this mentality, I have 3 apps that can send notifications: phone, messages and WhatsApp. Everything else is blocked. I don’t want to see notifications for 99% of apps every once in a while I’ll be tempted into letting an app use notifications and immediately regret it and disable.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

#217

Post by cblconfederate »

Reddit now feels like newsgroups after they were infested with spam. Little good content , hidden in corners under piles of spam. Instead of spam, they have politics though.

It looks like a model on the verge of collapse.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

#218

Post by Trasmatta »

marrone12 wrote: post #161
yrro wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new design literally doesn't work! Trying to follow a link is now all but impossible - clicking a link takes me to the comments page. Not what I want. But on that page, the link that I expect to see at the top of the page doesn't load! So I shrug and go back to the index page, and now the link or image or whatever is attached to the post is gone from _that_ page too. Reloading the page doesn't fix it. So for that…

I think you need to differentiate between the "design" and the "experience". The design itself is good e.g. the wireframes of the website. The actual engineering behind the design is not good.

I would disagree there, I think both the design and implementation are bad.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

#219

Post by Lammy »

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

I've suspected this ever since 2013 when they outed "Elgin Air Force Base, FL" as their "Most addicted city (over 100k visits total)": https://web.archive.org/web/20130509130745/https://blog.redd...

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

#220

Post by GavinMcG »

Spare_account wrote: post #211
jedberg wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No they wouldn’t seek out the new interface. They just bounce. When they first launched the new interface some new users got the new one and some new users got the old one. The bounce rate for the new one was lower and the signup rate was higher.

You were asked for a source though. You've just expanded on your point but without a source. As it happens I am an old.reddit.com dinosaur that finds your argument plausible, but I'm interested to see the data as well.

jedberg is the former chief architect and operations manager of reddit, fyi.
Post reply on HN