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The admins can put messages and links in the new sidebar though.
There is no visible sidebar on the modern mobile interface, though.
Ah yes, not on mobile. Reddit on mobile is only bearable using a third-party app.
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
#222A year ago they reported monthly active users at 430M, a +30% YoY increase. Extrapolating that over one more year with the same growth rate would mean they now have 560M MAUs. This would result in a DAU/MAU ratio of 9%, which is pretty low, and especially so for a social media company. https://andrewchen.co/dau-mau-is-an-important-metric-but-her...
I virtually never go on reddit these days, but when I do it's often because I want to see peoples thoughts on a particular topic.
i.e. skiing in x place, buying x product, what's the general consensus on x movie, ect.
I imagine a lot of people are like that, especially since quora went nowhere.
Also DAU is everything to a social media company as it relates to revenue, so it's clear reddit isn't in an especially good spot. Their market cap would have to be no more than 1/5th of say Snapchat or twitter.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
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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.
How was this measured? Because with the new layout then it’s incredibly easy to accidentally exit a thread (without leaving the site) and you have various dark patterns to force users to sign-up. For instance, whenever I open a reddit link through from a google search then I’m unable to view all comments without signing up, and I accidentally close the thread all the time. I see the exact same thing happen when a twitch streamer I follow visit reddit at the start of every stream (despite visiting reddit every single day using the new layout then he keep accidentally closing threads and getting lost on the subreddit page).
I wouldn’t be surprised if me reading a thread with all its 200 comments on the old version and then leaving the site is considered bouncing, whereas me reading a thread (or rather the 20 comments on the thread you make available) and then accidentally closing the thread to return to the subreddit on the new version is considered successful retention.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
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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.
The main feature that makes me use the new interface is the ability to collapse a thread from anywhere. It makes reading through comments much faster. The main drawback is that it's really too heavy for what it does. I don't understand the complains about the new design being image-heavy, or in general so much different from the old one. Once you set it (once) in "classic view", it's basically the same.
The complaint isn't that it's image-heavy, but javascript-heavy.
If I load an old/new reddit tab and go to 'about:performance', here's the comparison:
Old - Low impact - 22 MB memory usage - 4s to fully load on gigabit
New - Med impact - 70 MB memory usage - 10s to fully load on gigabit
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
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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?
> Didn't they champion themselves as the bastions of free speech at one point? Didn't liberals too?
No one has a right to a private platform.
Facebook banned QAnon, so did Youtube. They can, frankly, fuck off.
Public good is a consideration.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#226Good 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.
Reddit has increasingly become the 21st century equivalent of a tabloid: nudity, misinformation, and sensationalised bullshit
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#227Good 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…
How could /r/coronavirus be apolitical given the state of America? on a US centric website?
And yeah, I wish we could stop reporting on how Trump is bad and corrupt, but that would require to stop doing bad and corrupt things.
Maybe you are mistaking views you disagree with as bias even when they are firmly grounded in reality?
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#228Earlier 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?
One has to actively try to use Old. So, usage is being reduced by attrition (but attributed to design success). So, apathy looks like successful KPIs. New UI sucks. Forgets settings, frequent load errors (which blank out an already loaded content) and hit-boxes for clickable items are small/overlap which increases page hits (cause you nav to the wrong page). It smacks of a hasty rewrite in $HOTFRAMEWORK. I use reddit…
Thankfully there are some browser extensions to redirect automatically, provided you're comfortable using them:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#229Good 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…
One of the most weird examples of this: To this day they run a live-thread on the HK protests that's advertised in the "Announcements" part of r/worldnews
Yet there is no live-thread or advertisement like this for the BLM protests that escalated way more, not just in scale but also intensity, than anything that happened in Hong Kong.
Tbh I can't remember if that "Announcements" box ever had anything other that HK livethread in there.
Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
#230Why is Reddit’s UI still getting worse? I have to click a link like 4 times on mobile for it to register, and I get errors for about 20% of links. Sometimes links take me the comments and not the content for some reason, particularly with images and videos.
So.....why are you still using Reddit?
Genuine question.