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Keep in mind Reddit users also predicted the death of Reddit during the pao/banning fiasco. It's only grown since then.

by shaklee3 8y ago

superkuh 8y ago
False. That was the beginning of the end. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com
- shaklee3 8y ago
  Your link only goes back to the beginning of 2018. Pao left in 2015.and your link is comparing overall rankings of websites. That in no way tells you anything about redditt's traffic growth. https://www.statista.com/chart/11882/number-of-subreddits-on-reddit/ https://www.statista.com/chart/11882/number-of-subreddits-on...
  - superkuh 8y ago
    The banning of completely legal and non-controversial content didn't stop with Pao. That was the start. It's only accelerated. And that's what you see in the stats. Reddit is down in popularity since 2015. They abandoned their userbase and are attempting to bootstrap up into a gentrified facebook clone with new emphasis on personal identity (ie, having people post to their user profile pages instead of subreddits, and the implementation of commercial ad "personal" profiles like u/washingtonpost). And luckily for them in 2016 a partisan political issue finally provided motivation for people to leave Facebook for other sites. This explains your observations about number of subs.
    - shaklee3 8y ago
      If you make that assertion please provide data in the form of graphs or tables. All I said was pao left in 2015, and during that time I remember Reddit users predicting it would go there way of digg. It didn't.
pixl97 8y ago
Grown != profiting.
- shaklee3 8y ago
  That's not the point. People predicted a mass exodus of users, and it didn't happen. Whether they're profitable or not is different. Conversely, you business can shrink and profits can go up if you make more money per user. This thread was only about users.

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Keep in mind Reddit users also predicted the death of Reddit during the pao/banning fiasco. It's only grown since then.

by shaklee3 8y ago

Keep in mind Reddit users also predicted the death of Reddit during the pao/banning fiasco. It's only grown since then.

superkuh 8y ago
False. That was the beginning of the end. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com
- shaklee3 8y ago
  Your link only goes back to the beginning of 2018. Pao left in 2015.and your link is comparing overall rankings of websites. That in no way tells you anything about redditt's traffic growth. https://www.statista.com/chart/11882/number-of-subreddits-on-reddit/ https://www.statista.com/chart/11882/number-of-subreddits-on...
  - superkuh 8y ago
    The banning of completely legal and non-controversial content didn't stop with Pao. That was the start. It's only accelerated. And that's what you see in the stats. Reddit is down in popularity since 2015. They abandoned their userbase and are attempting to bootstrap up into a gentrified facebook clone with new emphasis on personal identity (ie, having people post to their user profile pages instead of subreddits, and the implementation of commercial ad "personal" profiles like u/washingtonpost). And luckily for them in 2016 a partisan political issue finally provided motivation for people to leave Facebook for other sites. This explains your observations about number of subs.
    - shaklee3 8y ago
      If you make that assertion please provide data in the form of graphs or tables. All I said was pao left in 2015, and during that time I remember Reddit users predicting it would go there way of digg. It didn't.
pixl97 8y ago
Grown != profiting.
- shaklee3 8y ago
  That's not the point. People predicted a mass exodus of users, and it didn't happen. Whether they're profitable or not is different. Conversely, you business can shrink and profits can go up if you make more money per user. This thread was only about users.