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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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ihuman wrote: post #263
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 umvi »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #198
umvi wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

old interface was just way more information dense. That's my main complaint with new UI. Even with "compact" mode on the new UI, it's not as dense as the old one.

The difference in information density really isn't that large. Here's a comparison of the current top posts (and not even using the compact view): https://imgur.com/a/WsI3pBj

I disagree. At least, if I load www.reddit.com/r/programming and old.reddit.com/r/programming, it's immediately apparent that new UI is much less dense:

https://i.imgur.com/2NPpxyw

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Post by marpstar »

ihuman wrote: post #263
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.

Even if they did, it'd be trivial for a developer to exclude the ads, and why wouldn't they? Obviously Reddit could try and enforce that via ToS, but even then they'd have to track offenders down and threaten them with revocation.

Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

ihuman wrote: post #263
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.

If they did though, wouldn’t a third party client at least give the option to strip them out given their presence makes the app worse for most users?

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Post by cle »

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.

I don't know what content you're looking for on Reddit, but my experience is the opposite. Reddit makes it very easy for me to find focused, high-quality conversations about specific topics. As others have said, the trick is to stick to small subreddits. AskReddit, like most of the big subreddits, is a cesspool.

Also, I find that searching Reddit with Google yields much more trustworthy information than just searching Google, which tends to return a bunch of sponsored results, ads, and SEO garbage. Folks on Reddit (especially focused subreddits) do a very good job of filtering all that stuff out already. It's not perfect, but it's often vastly better than Google alone.

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dvt wrote: post #254
Kaze404 wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Politics is fine. Politics is fine if it's discussed like it is on HN†: level-headed arguments are debated, discussed, and, if a consensus isn't reached, we can agree to disagree. Reddit is polluted by absolute political drivel, except for a very small subset of subs. Low-effort "Trump is bad" posts that get massively upvoted just gets old after a while, especially when you see it every single day . † HN has been h…

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Post by c0nducktr »

Springcleaning wrote: post #289
peanut_worm wrote: post #38

Why 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.

Did you know you can use old.reddit.com in desktop mode? You can also use the Apollo App instead.

The Apollo app has gotten so good that I'm starting to worry they'll purchase it and neuter it or shut it down, just like they did the Alien Blue app a few years ago.

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Post by vehemenz »

throwawaysea wrote: post #106

I used to love using Reddit after Digg's disastrous redesign many years ago, but it really has devolved in a number of key ways: 1. Site design. I can't help but think that the site redesign lends itself towards dark patterns, echo chambers, and the kind of "hot take" reactionary culture that makes most of social media so unhealthy. As a user, I am mad that Reddit uses so many annoying nudges to get me to use their m…

1. I agree that old.reddit.com is the only way to use Reddit. Let's hope it lasts.

2. They have made some high-profile mistakes, like banning /r/gendercritial. However, they are legally allowed to remove subreddits that they find don't align with their values (or their advertisers' values).

3. I don't think that routine opposition to extremism viewpoints is "leftist". The defining qualities of the post-Trump Republican are gullibility, anti-intellectualism, and immorality; these are not really political viewpoints. Outside of the Trump bubble, who respects these values? If there were a political party that housed all the rapists, it would not be a political statement to deny their voice on your internet forum.

Again, it is important to understand the lack of symmetry between so-called "conservative" and "liberal" viewpoints. Trumpists are 20-30% of the country and are largely insular. People opposed to Trump and his takeover the party are a clear majority of the country, even if a huge number of those are moderates or even right-leaning.

In other words, mainstream platforms that discriminate against extremist/immoral views are not echo chambers. Echo chambers are echo chambers.

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Post by jimbob45 »

cle wrote: post #295
Kaze404 wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't know what content you're looking for on Reddit, but my experience is the opposite. Reddit makes it very easy for me to find focused, high-quality conversations about specific topics. As others have said, the trick is to stick to small subreddits. AskReddit, like most of the big subreddits, is a cesspool. Also, I find that searching Reddit with Google yields much more trustworthy information than just searchin…

Hear hear

I would offer up the subreddit on liminal spaces or the video game Marathon as places for discussion that could not otherwise exist without Reddit.

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Post by Barrin92 »

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.

it's the downside of reddit still being a relatively federated, open platform. You have to dig yourself to find good content and niche subreddits, but I vastly prefer it to the centralised, 'overlord AI', algorithmic stuff on every other service.

You can't have it both, if you have decentralisation and pretty free expression you get a lot of garbage and responsibility is on you to find what's worth looking at. I also don't see politics as bad. Sure the level of discourse is abysmal, kind of the norm for politics anyway, but I'll take people at least talking about politics than cat videos and bikini pictures and 'pranking homeless people' videos.

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