Technology

My reddit average daily traffic dropped 100% 😀

Hopefully there's another wave of power users moving to Lemmy/Kbin after the 30th.

spez: 'tis but a scratch!

3rd-party data: your arm's off!

edit: I will say that I have it on good authority that their upload traffic has increased considerably from someone (I won't say who) uploading a bunch of 1gb videos of static to random subs using a band new throwaway account from behind a VPN. :)

It's wild how much damage reddit has done to their image in a short few months

Yes Obviously its working hence why the admins are now so Aggressive in demoding mods and forcing subs open.

“According to data provided to Engadget by internet analytics firm Similarweb, the impact was small but noticeable. On the day before the blackout began on June 12th, Similarweb logged more than 57 million daily visits to Reddit across desktop and mobile web clients. By the end of the first day of the protest, daily visits were below 55 million. Then, at the end of June 13th, Similarweb recorded fewer than 52 million daily visits to Reddit. Compared to the website’s average daily volume over the past month, the 52,121,649 visits Reddit saw on June 13th represented a 6.6 percent drop.

Over that same time period, Similarweb recorded a more dramatic decrease in the amount of time Reddit users were spending on the platform. The day before the protest began, an average session on the website was about eight minutes and 31 seconds long. A day later, that metric fell to seven minutes and 17 seconds, or the lowest that stat has been in the past three years. Reddit did not immediately respond to Engadget’s comment request.”

Guess that’s why spez was on such a media blitz the last few days.

I am still on a blackout. And I canceled my paid Reddit account.

On one hand I'm glad the blackouts made a noticeable dent and moved reddit (the site) into a response of some sort.

On the other hand, reddit (the site) is not going to back down because they already revealed their hand and they're motivated by $$$ which is a strong-ass motivator.

On the third hand, the majority of reddit (the users) are back and still using it, which proves that reddit (the site) was correct in staying on their course. Those users now have a negative outlook on both the corporate leadership AND the mods that run the subreddits, yet they still log in, contributing to the wealth of discussion and information stored in that place.

I am whelmed.

Reddit will continue to highlight Weekly/Monthly Average Users to the press and advertisers, since those metrics won't take much of a hit. You visit the site once to vote in a poll in favor of continuing the blackouts, you'll get counted in those.

Those more granular metrics like session length and especially Total Posts Viewed are what really matter when you're trying to run ads, and it's hard to imagine a world in which those did not take a huge hit when most of the major subreddits are either blacked out, or (even better) flooding the front page with repetitive pictures of John Oliver.

I’m not missing Reddit as much as I thought I would, however I do miss Apollo