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Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by jedberg »

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…

And in case it helps, I was about to write the exact same comment. They are using Alexa numbers which are, basically, unsubstantiated guesses.

Heck, they didn't even bother to read the numbers reddit actually publishes.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by jedberg »

dasil003 wrote: post #25

The crazy thing is how Reddit dominated Digg at the v4 launch. What the hell happened there? Did the Reddit community mobilize 4chan-style? The article teases us this sentence: Please forgive the long screenshot below, but it’s important to understand exactly how Reddit blasted the Digg front page at this time This suggests that they have something deeper to reveal, but instead it's just a screenshot showing the actu…

reddit was actually already bigger than Digg before they launched V4. There was a lot of overlap of users and people were pissed off, so they thought it would be funny.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by absconditus »

narkee wrote: post #2

>It’s not guaranteed that something of high quality will make it on Reddit, but it’s absolutely guaranteed that something of low quality will be destroyed there. That's not true at all. There are tons of low quality posts. There's just such a high turnover that you tend to forget some of the stuff that you automatically skip or filter.

Most of the submissions on the default front page are atrocious.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by jedberg »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #11

Only posted an hour and already the same, predictable comments. People, please take the time to explore other subreddits. If you stay subscribed to reddit.com, pics, politics and other various default subreddits, you're not going to enjoy yourself (unless you liked digg v4). Also, I have no idea why reddit defaults to "top" for comment sorting. The experience is much less gimmicky when you sort comments by "best". Th…

The default is best, but if you've ever sorted by "top", it will remain "top" until you change it back. It's a long standing bug. :)

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by zitterbewegung »

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.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by raldi »

jedberg wrote: post #35
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #11

Only posted an hour and already the same, predictable comments. People, please take the time to explore other subreddits. If you stay subscribed to reddit.com, pics, politics and other various default subreddits, you're not going to enjoy yourself (unless you liked digg v4). Also, I have no idea why reddit defaults to "top" for comment sorting. The experience is much less gimmicky when you sort comments by "best". Th…

The default is best, but if you've ever sorted by "top", it will remain "top" until you change it back. It's a long standing bug. :)

Actually, one of the new guys fixed that. Hooray for progress!

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by esrauch »

jedberg wrote: post #35
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #11

Only posted an hour and already the same, predictable comments. People, please take the time to explore other subreddits. If you stay subscribed to reddit.com, pics, politics and other various default subreddits, you're not going to enjoy yourself (unless you liked digg v4). Also, I have no idea why reddit defaults to "top" for comment sorting. The experience is much less gimmicky when you sort comments by "best". Th…

The default is best, but if you've ever sorted by "top", it will remain "top" until you change it back. It's a long standing bug. :)

Sounds like a long standing feature to me; sticky settings. Anyone who prefers setting X over the default shouldn't be forced to change it every time they view a page.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by myhf »

blhack wrote: post #4
parfe wrote: post #3

Too bad. The voting system isn't as robust as it needs to be for me to use the site on a regular basis anymore. Too many of the top rated threads are jokes, puns, or stupid questions. Moderating by category made slashdot comments useful. In the user profile, setting all "Funny" moderated comments to -5 eliminated all the "In Soviet Russia" jokes. Repeated comments were marked redundant etc. Reddit has become quite po…

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…

TIL you can use + to combine subreddits

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

dasil003 wrote: post #25

The crazy thing is how Reddit dominated Digg at the v4 launch. What the hell happened there? Did the Reddit community mobilize 4chan-style? The article teases us this sentence: Please forgive the long screenshot below, but it’s important to understand exactly how Reddit blasted the Digg front page at this time This suggests that they have something deeper to reveal, but instead it's just a screenshot showing the actu…

Though it was apparent in v3, v4 made it impossible to notice that 90+% of digg's content was 12-24 hour lagged reddit content. As this became more obvious and v4 became more mockable, this point was emphasized and mocked by reddit and digg users alike. There was cross promotion, but I don't think many redditors were "seeking out" or trying to "recruit" digg users.
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