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

Post by JetSpiegel » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 9:25 PM UTC

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Old reddit users are last I checked in the Reddit traffic stats I had access to around 1-2% of active posters, and mobile overall is thumping desktop reddit several times over. By the time New Reddit was launched old reddit wasn't even the primary way to view the site anymore. Nowadays new reddit crushes old reddit. Reddit doesn't need it's old users, it doesn't need you, and it doesn't need me. It could kill off old…

I don't see new site users posting on hn about it. I doubt they tell their friends about it either.

Post by JohnBooty » Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 6:01 PM UTC

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I've been an everyday compulsive reddit user for 12 years. The day they kill old.reddit.com is the day I stop using reddit forever.

Funny thing. When you said this I wondered if it would be a good way to stop using Reddit. Then I remembered like generations ago I tried to stop using some website by making it hard to visit. Blocked it in the hosts file and everything. One day I stopped what I was doing and looked at what it was. I was on the website I'd blocked. The way I'd done it was I'd forwarded the Xserver from a dedicated server I was runnin…