Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

Post by Florin_Andrei » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 11:37 PM UTC

SkyMarshal wrote: post #47

zitterbewegung wrote: post #36

Anyone feel lost in the high amount of traffic? I have been a redditor for 5 years and I feel not only has the traffic grown considerably but the content submitted has changed so much. The tone of the site has changed enough that I only subscribe to usually low user count subreddits.

I've been subscribed to only non-default subreddits for so long I didn't even notice the traffic growth, except for the occasional fail-whale. The niche parts of the site are still good.

Post by maurits » Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 11:57 PM UTC

ohashi wrote: post #66

maurits wrote: post #64

I deleted my account yesterday. As a community it has given me nothing back, except pictures of funny cats (ok slight exaggeration) It seems as if every single comment that hints to insight fulness, knowledge or that comes accompanied with a (scientific) source is ridiculed or downvoted into oblivion. And top comments increasingly are inside jokes. That is all ok, but I am not putting energy in it anymore. Compare th…

If you got no value out of the place, I think you were doing it wrong. My city (DC) has a thriving subreddit that meets up probably 2-3 times a week officially to do things - zombie invasion simulations, drinking, board games, go karting, etc. It's been a fantastic way to just get out and do stuff with people. There is a whole subreddit dedicated to 'Barcraft' which brings watching pro starcraft live to bars (like yo…

Post by raldi » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 12:17 AM UTC

timcederman wrote: post #68

raldi wrote: post #24

Speaking as a former reddit admin who had direct access to the server logs (and "wc -l"): Quantcast (and Alexa, and Comscore, and all the others) are terrible at estimating traffic. They make wildly inaccurate guesses using low-quality source data and all the ad execs just gobble up their results as if they're fresh off God's own LaserJet. It's very frustrating to watch. The most accurate results are visible at Googl…

Any thoughts on why such a difference in the search volume graph which you posted, and Google's estimate of actual traffic? http://trends.google.com/websites?q=reddit.com%2C+digg.com&#...

Post by zitterbewegung » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 12:48 AM UTC

SkyMarshal wrote: post #47

zitterbewegung wrote: post #36

Anyone feel lost in the high amount of traffic? I have been a redditor for 5 years and I feel not only has the traffic grown considerably but the content submitted has changed so much. The tone of the site has changed enough that I only subscribe to usually low user count subreddits.

I've been subscribed to only non-default subreddits for so long I didn't even notice the traffic growth, except for the occasional fail-whale. The niche parts of the site are still good.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 2:22 AM UTC

paganel wrote: post #67

Unfortunately, reddit has started to hit new and new lows. See this recent highly-voted post for example ( http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/jvhot/i_found_a_girl_... ), where they're making fun of a poor girl's badly photoshopped photos that she dared to publish on Flickr. I've been on reddit since its very beginnings, back when its being rewritten in Python was causing huge discussions or when programming.reddi…