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Yes, it's a top 5 website in the US: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US After 10 years it's now as important
by alaskamiller 9y ago
Yes, it's a top 5 website in the US: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US
After 10 years it's now as important to kids as Facebook.
There posts getting 100k upvotes more often these days. And some are approaching even 200k.
What's even crazier is the growth of the imgur subculture
- chipperyman573 9y agoUpvotes aren't an accurate representation of users. The higher a post's score, the more upvotes it needs to increase. For example, a post with a score of 7 would increase by 1 every time it receives an upvote, but may need 10 or 15 upvotes to increase by another point once it gets over 1000 points (made up numbers). A few months ago, the admins made a change to the algorithm to allow posts to gain much more points than before. Now, a post gets 1 point per upvote until, say, 10,000 upvotes, after which it only needs 5 upvotes per point.
- alaskamiller 9y agoThere was a point where after 6 years on Tumblr, when we started cracking thousand likes on a post. Then came when there were 100k likes on posts. Reddit reached that terminal velocity around year 8.
- yelnatz 9y agoThe increase in upvotes is due to the algorithm change back in December. [0] If you sort top, almost all 100k+ upvotes are after this switch. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5gvd6b/scores_on_posts_are_about_to_start_going_up/ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5gvd6b/score...
- hueving 9y ago>After 10 years it's now as important to kids as Facebook. Are there some stats on demographics? I know it was cool for kids like 10 years ago, but did the demographics just shift with the initial age group or are they still actively getting teenagers?