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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

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Post by ixacto »

Raidion wrote: post #5

That number seems to indicate why they've started to use all the dark patterns for people to create an account. You can no longer see comments other than at the top level. Some subreddits require registration to view. All these things are artifacts of the new design that do not exist on old.reddit.com. I'm thankful HN is not designing for 'engagement' or MAUs at the UI level.

They have been auto-creating an account if you go to reddit.com on an android phone logged into a google account. Not sure if this is intentional or not.

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Post by goalieca »

heavyset_go wrote: post #187
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. There's an entire cottage industry dedicated to doing reputation management for brands on platforms like Reddit. I don't think Reddit cares that they aren't using their ad platform directly, because the companies that manipulate Reddit buy awards for their…

> because the companies that manipulate Reddit buy awards for their posts and what not.

that was a real stroke of brilliance but also of pure evil. When combined with the downvote button and aggressive moderation against 'undesired content' and 'misinformation', they've ensured themselves to be quite a powerful totalitarian bubble with a large army and outsized influence on internet culture.

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Post by ihuman »

acwan93 wrote: post #259

I wonder if Reddit is hitting the same issue as Twitter did with regards to third-party apps. Like Twitter, Reddit has a robust API that allows for really full-featured apps to fetch/post content, which is great as a user, but horrible for monetization. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point third party Reddit clients end up getting neutered much like Twitter apps have become. Given that the mobile site is turning…

> which is great as a user, but horrible for monetization

That's Reddit's fault, though. They don't include ads when a user uses the API.

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Post by dirtyid »

ourlordcaffeine wrote: post #253
dirtyid wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a counter-counterpoint, anti-China voices seems to have calmed dramatically right after the US election ended. Suggesting there was much more anti-China astroturfing around election season. Which is expected considering Trump's entire platform was anti-China, and there's much more anti-China shills than pro-China shills. I too have noticed more pro-China voices on worldnews, but I've monitored and tagged via reddi…

>But they do have better rhetoric and are more invested in the debate For anyone unfamiliar with r/sino: They believe the Tienanmen Square massacre was justified They believe the Uighur concentration camps are justified They believe an invasion of Taiwan is righteous, and there is generally a lot of extreme vitriol directed at Taiwan and the Taiwanese They believe in and spread a lot of misinformation concerning the…

Well duh, that's me. I'm pro-CCP on policies I agree with and anti-CCP on policies I don't. You know... the kind of nuance reasonable people reserve for their own governments, but can't seem to generalize outside their tribe.

Sino's an unfortunate echochamber because 50k pro-China voices can't withstand brigading of vastly numerous anti-China voices. It's understandable to adopt siege mentality, plenty of other places soft/hard ban pro-China opinion. Also you list a bunch of pro China views that are consistent with pro-China interests like... that's a problem? Regardless, I don't care much for Sino, at minimum they do good counter-propaganda work. I'm more partial to china_irl which is gated by Chinese fluency.

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Post by ihuman »

easterncalculus wrote: post #228
edoceo wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

If you have an account, you can just flip a switch in the settings that disables the new UI.

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Post by edoceo »

easterncalculus wrote: post #228
edoceo wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Reddit Management Read This!! If one needs an extension you get around the way you annoy your userbase be prepared for the userbase to leave. You are actively pushing them away. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

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Post by lock-free »

acwan93 wrote: post #259

I wonder if Reddit is hitting the same issue as Twitter did with regards to third-party apps. Like Twitter, Reddit has a robust API that allows for really full-featured apps to fetch/post content, which is great as a user, but horrible for monetization. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point third party Reddit clients end up getting neutered much like Twitter apps have become. Given that the mobile site is turning…

Reddit is also reliant on third party apps to get content and interaction since their own frontend and backend are terrible for everything but link and comment aggregation.

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

ihuman wrote: post #265
easterncalculus wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

If you have an account, you can just flip a switch in the settings that disables the new UI.

yeah except "just" doing this doesn't work always.

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Post by fishingisfun »

Kaze404 wrote: post #242
cblconfederate wrote: post #217

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.

Politics is fine. But in general Reddit has so little content actually worth anyone's time that it's crazy to me how people spend so much time on it. Not to mention YouTube channels that get millions of views where they just read AskReddit threads with the same jokes those people make literally every single thread.

the gems are hidden in small subs

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Post by monksy »

jedberg wrote: post #246
justintbassett wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I'm not sure how many of the current admins read HN there are DOZENS of us

Go home, you're drunk(en)!

I've been telling him this for years.

I've even tried malort. He won't listen.

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