The Growth of Reddit

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Post by saternius » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 8:59 PM UTC

The Growth of Reddit
blog.quillbot.com

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#2

Post by empath75 » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:12 PM UTC

Just looking at the gaming section I wonder how much subreddit popularity leads sales or vice versa.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#3

Post by saternius » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:15 PM UTC

empath75 wrote: post #2

Just looking at the gaming section I wonder how much subreddit popularity leads sales or vice versa.

There is another post about comparing subreddit growth https://blog.quillbot.com/subreddit-trends/. One could compare this to historical sales data.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by css » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:19 PM UTC

t_d at its peak was almost as big as politics, now that was not something I expected. Before SandersForPresident was archived when he lost the nomination it was about the same size as t_d.

Would be really neat to select a single sub or group of subs and generate a line chart of the same data.

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Post by trillic » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:22 PM UTC

Love watching the sports subreddits fluctuate throughout the year depending on which sport is in season.

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Post by lettergram » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:24 PM UTC

For those interested, I've done a similar (far less pretty) analysis on Hacker News:

https://austingwalters.com/trends-on-hacker-news-activity-gr...

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Post by swampthinker » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:24 PM UTC

Very interesting to watch the sports subreddits fluctuate in size as their respective leagues come in and out of season.

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Post by dmode » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:25 PM UTC

It is interesting that the #1 story in HN is decline in FB and the #3 is growth in Reddit. Personal anecdote, I have shifted all my FB screen time to Reddit. Not out of any agenda, but perhaps to interact with a more diverse group of people. Bold prediction: FB will try to acquire Reddit soon

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Post by Mahn » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:25 PM UTC

css wrote: post #4

t_d at its peak was almost as big as politics, now that was not something I expected. Before SandersForPresident was archived when he lost the nomination it was about the same size as t_d. Would be really neat to select a single sub or group of subs and generate a line chart of the same data.

A lot of what goes on in t_d is artificial, so the actual size of the community is probably a lot less than what it appears here.

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Post by trynewideas » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 9:25 PM UTC

Some pretty poor categorization of some subreddits in there. gamesofthrones, mylittlepony, thewalkingdead, and BigBrother are in sports (asoiaf is in entertainment). sysadmin and techsupport are in hobbies/occupations while buildapc is in tech section. tumblrinaction, kotakuinaction, and blackpeopletwitter are in entertainment. DebateReligion is in news/politics, not discussion (with other debate subreddits) or lifestyle (with other religion subreddits).

The hierarchy is on GitHub: https://github.com/MetASnoo/Subreddit-Directory-Skeleton/blo...

But it's not in a structured format and tough to verify. There's no methodology for the current organization, and it doesn't look like it matches the actual graph.