They have been touting MAUs and DAUs a lot over the last one year. Turns out their numbers are very very public. Whenever a new user creates an account, she au

They have been touting MAUs and DAUs a lot over the last one year. Turns out their numbers are very very public. Whenever a new user creates an account, she automatically gets added to r/announcements. It's not a choice, they dont even show it as an option. The current subs of r/announcements is 127M. It was 124M at the start of this month. Just shows that reddit - with newer design or not - has not found much acceptance in the upcoming generations. They tend to visit the site, yet are hesitant to create an account. For reference, their MAUs for month of Dec 19 alone were 430M. They got a lot of help from SEO for everyone of their threads being indexed, and hence the high traffic, but regular users and personalized ads isnt there. Likely low ARPU. Edit: This is probably the reason for those dark patterns too. If I can see that low conversion rate, so can people inside, and they would try and improve that via different UX patterns. Because it seems like a low hanging fruit when it is not really one.