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That growth is predicated on a feature set that has been more or less untouched for over a decade. That core feature set is still very good. I've seen no evide

That growth is predicated on a feature set that has been more or less untouched for over a decade. That core feature set is still very good. I've seen no evidence that anything they've introduced in the last 10 years has contributed to any of that growth, and my evidence is that just about every feature announced or implemented since then is now either gone or largely ignored by the userbase.

jsheard 3y ago
Even the overhauled UI has gone ignored by many users, thanks to the old UI remaining available as an option, but I imagine it's only a matter of time before they pull the plug on that so they can "enhance the sponsored post viewing experience".
- trogdor 3y ago
  I have no evidence for this, but my hunch is that an inconsequentially-small percentage of Reddit users go out of their way to use Reddit’s old UI.
  - VHRanger 3y ago
    Those users are disproportionately mods and active users though. Reddit can't easily do away with it. They considered this around the 3rd party app fiasco and it was clear old Reddit has a few years left because mods allhate the new Reddit UI
  - throwaway48476 3y ago
    Yes but what percent of active posters use it? It's going to be much higher and the site will die without new content.
PaulHoule 3y ago
There is nothing special about Reddit unless you mean Reddit was in the right place and the right time to establish a two-sided market. It's very hard to kill a two-sided market when it gets established. Look at Craigslist or Twitter. An interesting thing about Reddit to me is many people who look at it see strongly offputting things like being overrun by image memes but when you look at it closely there is so much there about so many subjects. From time to time you find those brilliant social media posts that remind me of some of the emails from the Enron Emails data set where people talk about what they did for training in the army. Perhaps that is what keeps people coming back or maybe they are all about the memes.
- babypuncher 3y ago
  I firmly believe that niche content like what you mention is the life-blood of the site, and the biggest contributor to it's longevity. People come for the memes, but they stay for the litany of small communities that cater to their very specific tastes The fact that people often append "reddit" to their Google queries is a testament to this. Even if they aren't active participants in these niche communities, they know that they are the easiest place to find reasonably reliable information from other humans on them. If these types of communities stop flourishing on Reddit for any reason, then the site will become much easier to replace by any other generic meme factory.
- esafak 3y ago
  What market are you referring to at Reddit?
  - PaulHoule 3y ago
    Readers and writers.

jsheard 3y ago

Even the overhauled UI has gone ignored by many users, thanks to the old UI remaining available as an option, but I imagine it's only a matter of time before they pull the plug on that so they can "enhance the sponsored post viewing experience".

trogdor 3y ago
I have no evidence for this, but my hunch is that an inconsequentially-small percentage of Reddit users go out of their way to use Reddit’s old UI.
- VHRanger 3y ago
  Those users are disproportionately mods and active users though. Reddit can't easily do away with it. They considered this around the 3rd party app fiasco and it was clear old Reddit has a few years left because mods allhate the new Reddit UI
- throwaway48476 3y ago
  Yes but what percent of active posters use it? It's going to be much higher and the site will die without new content.

PaulHoule 3y ago

There is nothing special about Reddit unless you mean Reddit was in the right place and the right time to establish a two-sided market. It's very hard to kill a two-sided market when it gets established. Look at Craigslist or Twitter. An interesting thing about Reddit to me is many people who look at it see strongly offputting things like being overrun by image memes but when you look at it closely there is so much there about so many subjects. From time to time you find those brilliant social media posts that remind me of some of the emails from the Enron Emails data set where people talk about what they did for training in the army. Perhaps that is what keeps people coming back or maybe they are all about the memes.

babypuncher 3y ago
I firmly believe that niche content like what you mention is the life-blood of the site, and the biggest contributor to it's longevity. People come for the memes, but they stay for the litany of small communities that cater to their very specific tastes The fact that people often append "reddit" to their Google queries is a testament to this. Even if they aren't active participants in these niche communities, they know that they are the easiest place to find reasonably reliable information from other humans on them. If these types of communities stop flourishing on Reddit for any reason, then the site will become much easier to replace by any other generic meme factory.
esafak 3y ago
What market are you referring to at Reddit?
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  Readers and writers.