Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

Post by jedberg » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 3:24 PM UTC

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #87

jedberg wrote: post #61

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People have been calling reddit "Usenet 2.0" for a long time. In fact, usenet was something that often came up in discussions of how certain features should work and what features we should work on.

I don't disagree that some people have been comparing Reddit to usenet, but I've been an active redditor for 4 years and this is the first time I can recall someone comparing Reddit to usenet.

Post by muyuu » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 8:48 PM UTC

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I'd be very interested to see this comment thread. I've never, ever seen anyone defend YouTube, let alone YouTube style comments. Further, if you're in an at-all-trafficked subreddit, poor spelling, poor grammar and outright rudeness is fairly well discouraged.

perhaps this is it? http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/jcv2h/rolling_st...

Post by gwern » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 11:05 PM UTC

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Reddit still has a fantastic set of communities on it. Think of it more as a service , not one singular website. Like usenet. (These are some of the subs that I like, they might not be your thing, but they're examples of solid communities) http://reddit.com/r/truereddit http://reddit.com/r/longtext http://reddit.com/r/depthhub http://reddit.com/r/askscience http://reddit.com/r/neuro http://reddit.com/r/burningman htt…

/r/askscience is full of narrow-minded hardliners. /r/movies is full of spoilers. /r/philosophy is shallow. If by "maturing" you mean "attracting the fat middle and the tail end of the IQ bell curve" then yea, you're right. I'm finding fewer and fewer reasons to stay on Reddit. If I had exactly zero time to waste, I'd spend exactly zero time on Reddit.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 7:31 AM UTC

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(Sarcasm noted :-) For the uninitiated, this was around the time comment scores were hidden. Only PG knows whether this had any real effect on traffic; and even if so, whether that's a good or bad thing is subjective (less poor quality traffic / comments is good, and since HN is not directly commercial, lower traffic is not necessarily a bad thing). Loss of value to everyone else from lack of comment scores is anothe…

If we have that much evidence that having no visible comment scores reduces poor quality traffic, I think I may have just switched sides in that particular debate. I'm not saying that is the case, but it could be a very interesting revelation.