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> I wonder how much of a release valve for dissatisfaction these alternate UIs and third party apps represent. With 3rd party apps possibly going away now and

by sofixa 4y ago

> I wonder how much of a release valve for dissatisfaction these alternate UIs and third party apps represent. With 3rd party apps possibly going away now and i.reddit.com apparently dead (is old.reddit.com next?), I wonder how many angry redditors will come out of the woodwork. I've seen a couple of subreddits publish their stats on user agents (moderators get access to this), and even on highly technical ones IIRC the old design and third-party apps are miniscule compared to the vast majority being the official app and current website. I'm fairly sure r/homelab was one of them, but Google seems to indicate that isn't the case.

spondylosaurus 4y ago
How much do you think these numbers are impacted by people who arrive at posts via search engine versus active subscribers to a community? We all know that adding "reddit" to the end of your search query is a quick path to getting human-authored (and reasonably decent) results, which I'd imagine applies double to the topics covered by technical subs. Probably safe to assume that people hitting Reddit via Google aren't opening those search results in a third-party app, and then there's the fact that the site defaults to the new layout for logged-out users. (In other words, I'd be curious to see breakdowns between subscriber traffic and non-subscriber traffic and doesn't-even-have-a-Reddit-account traffic, if those breakdowns even exist.)
- sofixa 4y ago
  > Probably safe to assume that people hitting Reddit via Google aren't opening those search results in a third-party app Why not? Third part apps can be registered to open reddit.com links, so any mobile search would end up there.
  - spondylosaurus 4y ago
    Ah, I was mostly imagining desktop searches, but if you're on mobile then yeah that's a fair point.
- distances 4y ago
  > Probably safe to assume that people hitting Reddit via Google aren't opening those search results in a third-party app I absolutely do, Reddit is basically unusable in a browser for me which also seems to be the consensus in this discussion. But probably fair to assume that for a large majority.

by sofixa 4y ago

spondylosaurus 4y ago

How much do you think these numbers are impacted by people who arrive at posts via search engine versus active subscribers to a community? We all know that adding "reddit" to the end of your search query is a quick path to getting human-authored (and reasonably decent) results, which I'd imagine applies double to the topics covered by technical subs. Probably safe to assume that people hitting Reddit via Google aren't opening those search results in a third-party app, and then there's the fact that the site defaults to the new layout for logged-out users. (In other words, I'd be curious to see breakdowns between subscriber traffic and non-subscriber traffic and doesn't-even-have-a-Reddit-account traffic, if those breakdowns even exist.)

sofixa 4y ago
> Probably safe to assume that people hitting Reddit via Google aren't opening those search results in a third-party app Why not? Third part apps can be registered to open reddit.com links, so any mobile search would end up there.
- spondylosaurus 4y ago
  Ah, I was mostly imagining desktop searches, but if you're on mobile then yeah that's a fair point.
distances 4y ago
> Probably safe to assume that people hitting Reddit via Google aren't opening those search results in a third-party app I absolutely do, Reddit is basically unusable in a browser for me which also seems to be the consensus in this discussion. But probably fair to assume that for a large majority.