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Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by masklinn »

parfe wrote: post #5
blhack wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I understand that I can work to find subcommunities that havne't been destroyed yet, but check out The top rated comment in the top rated post in /r/Programming: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/juzl0/what_does... Extremely disappointmented this wasn't a picture of a dump truck full of bees.

1. Sort comments by best, not top. Always.

2. Because programming is still a pretty big subreddit, I believe it's part of the default set: unlogged users and users creating an account will get prog as part of their default subreddit subscriptions. This brings "unwarranted attention" to the subreddit until the uninterested user realizes he can unsubscribe from prog. Things are getting better there as other subreddits have taken over as the juggernauts and are being ruined instead (gaming has 660k members, pics, funny and reddit.com have 850k)

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by masklinn »

fudged71 wrote: post #6
parfe wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand that I can work to find subcommunities that havne't been destroyed yet, but check out The top rated comment in the top rated post in /r/Programming: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/juzl0/what_does... Extremely disappointmented this wasn't a picture of a dump truck full of bees.

It's no secret that the Programming subreddit has gone downhill in the past couple years. Plus, when a post gets popular, it gains the attention of the general audience, who often view /r/all. Another good subreddit is /r/todayilearned

> it gains the attention of the general audience, who often view /r/all.

It's not that they view /r/all, it's that they have not customized their front page, so they get the default set of subreddits, which I believe is simply the subreddits with the most members.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by tomerico »

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…

Thanks for this site, I never knew Google publish analytic traffic and their estimated traffic.

Something interesting I have noticed, if you are looking at Hacker News' traffic data, there seems to be a steep decline somewhere around April [1]. I wonder what whether it is correct, and whether there was a fundamental change in this site / ycombinator around that time.

[1] https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en...

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by llambda »

dmix wrote: post #9

The day I realized reddit wasn't the same anymore, was when I made a jest about Youtube commenters only posting unintelligible comments in the main /r/reddit.com subreddit. I got tons downvotes and a confused reply saying "is there something wrong with youtube that I dont get?" Then I realized the people commenting on Reddit were the same ones posting the comments on Youtube. They weren't even aware of the stigma of…

I stopped reading Reddit at the beginning of last year: there was a clear shift in demographic that wasn't something I found to be positive. The preference had seemed to become for short, trite, flippant comments that would illicit a slew of puns. Increasingly the richness of content of submissions had dried up. Of course I was told by my friends that I should just read subreddits and ignore the garbage. But even then, the culture had changed. So ultimately it wasn't for me. Needless to say, I'm hardly a loss to Reddit's bottom-line in the scheme of things and they're probably better off in the mainstream in that regard.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by bh42222 »

llambda wrote: post #44
dmix wrote: post #9

The day I realized reddit wasn't the same anymore, was when I made a jest about Youtube commenters only posting unintelligible comments in the main /r/reddit.com subreddit. I got tons downvotes and a confused reply saying "is there something wrong with youtube that I dont get?" Then I realized the people commenting on Reddit were the same ones posting the comments on Youtube. They weren't even aware of the stigma of…

I stopped reading Reddit at the beginning of last year: there was a clear shift in demographic that wasn't something I found to be positive. The preference had seemed to become for short, trite, flippant comments that would illicit a slew of puns. Increasingly the richness of content of submissions had dried up. Of course I was told by my friends that I should just read subreddits and ignore the garbage. But even the…

I stopped reading reddit long before you stopped. Quite a bit later, I slowly came back by being very selective about my subreddits. I think others might have done the same, because I've definitely been able to create a reddit very much like I remember it long before it got so popular. (Good god, does this post make me sound like an uber-hipster, or what!)

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by ck2 »

If I ever wrote a list of top 10 times an internet "product" handed a competitor most of it's "customers", two that would be on there include MovableType v3 (went free to paid and caused WordPress 2.0 to actually gain attention) and Digg v4.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by SkyMarshal »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #36

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.

I've been subscribed to only non-default subreddits for so long I didn't even notice the traffic growth, except for the occasional fail-whale. The niche parts of the site are still good.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by raldi »

tomerico wrote: post #43
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…

Thanks for this site, I never knew Google publish analytic traffic and their estimated traffic. Something interesting I have noticed, if you are looking at Hacker News' traffic data, there seems to be a steep decline somewhere around April [1]. I wonder what whether it is correct, and whether there was a fundamental change in this site / ycombinator around that time. [1] https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site…

HN either doesn't use Google Analytics or didn't check the box to make their traffic numbers public. That's why the graph you link to has a dotted line, rather than a solid one. The accuracy is much less certain in their case.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by Legion »

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…

Comparing Reddit to USENET is probably one of the most insightful descriptions of Reddit I've seen anyone make.

It is indeed a big loosely-related collection of communities, from which users choose a la carte their areas of participation.

The Reddit my wife sees when she logs in is very different from the one I see, which is very different from the one fans of meme participation (rage comics, etc) see.

Re: Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months

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Post by jedberg »

raldi wrote: post #37
jedberg wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Oh yeah! It was in the changelog. I forgot, since I'm no longer responsible for memorizing the changelog. ;)
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