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The only thing they care about is bottom line, and this, "Huffman says the blackout hasn’t had “significant revenue impact”," is key. To lose 95.8% of your sit
by 98codes 3y ago
The only thing they care about is bottom line, and this, "Huffman says the blackout hasn’t had “significant revenue impact”," is key.
To lose 95.8% of your site (judged by the 8467 out of 8838 subreddits gone dark) and not have a revenue impact at all raises some questions, primarily if there are any revenue streams based on usage, or only on monthly subscriptions and non-view-based ad contracts?
- oxygen_crisis 3y ago> To lose 95.8% of your site (judged by the 8467 out of 8838 subreddits gone dark) That's out of the 8838 that made a pledge to go dark. Those ~400 are just the ones that went "restricted" (read-only) instead of private, or flaked on the pledge. There are over a million subreddits, the blackout doesn't even reach one percent of them.
- Ataraxic 3y agoAnyone can make a subreddit if it's not been taken but you're right in that the real impact is by # of users affected. I think if what I read is true that ~ 1/2 of the top subreddits went dark that is a big outage. FWIW my reddit is not really usable except for 1 sub that I read.
- norgie 3y agoYour denominator is pretty much useless in terms of measuring user impact since subreddit subscriber size is not evenly distributed.
- graeme 3y agoIt's about 70% of the largest subreddits: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
- meepmorp 3y agoThere are plenty still open, but many of those million are dead anyway. I've made half dozen and abandoned them all.
- willis936 3y agoCEO caught lying multiple times this week, known to abuse admin powers to manipulate narrative, and completely failing to understand the entity he is in charge of says there is no significant impact from the blackout. Nothing to see here, move along.
- coolspot 3y agoWe are talking about the CEO who edited user comments that criticized him: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-ceo-edits-user-comments_n_5839cf32e4b000af95ee5b68 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-ceo-edits-user-comment...
- graeme 3y agoIt's about 70% of the top 1500 subreddits https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
- yarovoy 3y agoDoes not look like there is a huge dip in new posts/comments. Except for that short time when reddit went down yesterday.