Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

I've recently been thinking that Reddit holds a lot of potential that has yet to be tapped or expired. The recent pivots post CEO change (mobile app, redesign, crackdown on garbage) speak to a future where currently fractured private communities such as those on Discourse or Slack can find a more publicly accessible presence. Facebook Groups, while immensely popular, currently falls into the same opt-in, zero-discoverability category.

The timing couldn't be better with the hollowing-out of Tumblr.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by chipperyman573 » Wed, May 30, 2018, 6:12 PM UTC

tammer wrote: post #5

I've recently been thinking that Reddit holds a lot of potential that has yet to be tapped or expired. The recent pivots post CEO change (mobile app, redesign, crackdown on garbage) speak to a future where currently fractured private communities such as those on Discourse or Slack can find a more publicly accessible presence. Facebook Groups, while immensely popular, currently falls into the same opt-in, zero-discove…

>The timing couldn't be better with the hollowing-out of Tumblr.

What happened? I haven't heard about this.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, May 30, 2018, 6:14 PM UTC

Looking at Reddit data on BigQuery, the number of sitewide submissions has been growing steadily, despite the continual drama: https://i.imgur.com/V8AptYU.png

Query to reproduce:

   #standardSQL 
   SELECT TIMESTAMP_TRUNC(TIMESTAMP_SECONDS(created_utc), MONTH) as mon,
     COUNT(*) as num_submissions
     FROM `fh-bigquery.reddit_posts.*`
     WHERE (_TABLE_SUFFIX BETWEEN '2016_01' AND '2018_02' OR _TABLE_SUFFIX = 'full_corpus_201512')
     GROUP BY mon
     ORDER BY mon

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by askafriend » Wed, May 30, 2018, 6:17 PM UTC

I didn't realize Quora was so incredibly dependent on search...even more so than Yelp.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by iamunr » Wed, May 30, 2018, 6:17 PM UTC

nielsbot wrote: post #2

The also have the highest "daily time on site" of all the sites on the list by a good amount. (15m vs 10+m for runner-up Facebook) That said, are these numbers reliable? And: Don't a lot of people visit FB via an app? I assume that's not counted here.

Same could be same for Reddit, and their app ecosystem.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by falcon620 » Wed, May 30, 2018, 6:19 PM UTC

tammer wrote: post #5

I've recently been thinking that Reddit holds a lot of potential that has yet to be tapped or expired. The recent pivots post CEO change (mobile app, redesign, crackdown on garbage) speak to a future where currently fractured private communities such as those on Discourse or Slack can find a more publicly accessible presence. Facebook Groups, while immensely popular, currently falls into the same opt-in, zero-discove…

Reddit is getting so much usage because it hasn't been monetized yet. At the moment it's quite good free user forum/board/discussion/community-style site.

The new design will drive the users who liked that away. They will either eventually scatter away to hundreds of different places, or one or two new companies will take Reddit's current place.