Reddit seems oddly quiet these last few days. Its kinda eerie. Posts that would normally generate a ton of comments just have 2 or 3 comments. It feels a bit like a calm before the storm.

Anyone know whats up?

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I feel like they've been shuffling chairs on the titanic to cover up their falling engagement. Their default sort is now showing things from 4+ weeks ago, "Hot" posts with 0 upvotes on massive subs, hiding total sub member count with a rolling view count, etc...

Not sure who they're trying to fool but it's not hard to tell that activity has dropped. Stale posts, niche subs have dried up, active readers in the single digits, deleted comments, etc... But their stock is higher than ever so that's nice I guess?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    hiding total sub member count with a rolling view count

    Wouldn't that be worse? I've seen a sub that had close to 5 million members and the new metric showed today 98 000 weekly users. r/gaming had what? 30 millions? Now it's 2.4. This makes it look worse, doesn't it? Or am I missing something?

    But I agree with anything else you said.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I assume it's more to push active subs up instead of letting the large empty ones stay on top. It's better to see 90k with corresponding activity vs a 30m ghost town.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Now that you said ghost town... There is this sub I really liked that had around 500 000 members but with close to zero activity, like one or two posts a month and barely any comment. Now, with the changes, last time I checked it said it had less than 1000 active users!

    I don't know if this change is good or bad for Reddit, but you can bet it was bad for mods, because they are complaining about those drastic reductions in member counts. I understand that there is no point in counting members if they are long gone, just like it doesn't make sense for a city to count their deceased for a population estimation.

    Anyway, as usual mods there complain and complain but won't leave the site. I'm trapped there because of a few niche subs I can't find good replacements for, but I hope all these changes move more people out.

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