Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.
Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits
https://www.theverge.com/news/775524/reddit-subreddit-member-count-vistors-contributions
https://www.theverge.com/news/775524/reddit-subreddit-member-count-vistors-contributions
Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.
19 Comments
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca · 64 pts · 333d
Literally haven't regretted a single day since I left that platform, fuck reddit
hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 332d
I worry about not being able to get help with some work-related projects. There is Facebook but Facebook just sucks especially from my phone. You would think they would use their billions of dollars to fix glitches but since they have no competition why bother I suppose.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 2 pts · 332d
I don't know what it is about reddit buy I find myself constantly feeling outraged when I stop by to browse something that's not on Lemmy. I don't have any accounts anymore luckily but for some reason reddit feels harder to disengage on then lemmy/piefed.
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 333d
Obligatory fuck spez
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 333d
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 37 pts · 333d
Ah, the old stock-pumping strategy of cooking the books and only sharing good numbers. Never change, Reddit.
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 333d
Fuck reddit, it's all fucking bots and Russians at this point.
hector@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 332d
BeefandSquints@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 332d
100%. Talk as much shit as you want about the left but bring up Trump, Russia or Israel and get instantly banned.
misk@piefed.social · 9 pts · 332d
At first I thought it’d be a good change because subscriber count can really distort size of the community on older subreddits. On the other hand - given that this whole thing runs on inertia I don’t see how new metrics solve this. Big subreddits will stay big because they’re big already.
blackfire@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 332d
I think that's the idea. True traffic or at least recent traffic will bubble up while old ones fall.
DreamAccountant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 333d
But it won't detect the bots that it doesn't want to, so the numbers will just be bullshit.
"Buy ads based on my fictional metrics, please!"
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 332d
ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 332d
Ofc they will, so the can inflate participation with bots all they want.
If bots weren't counted, it wouldn't actually be a bad metric IMO.
Dholi@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 332d
Good, glad I stopped contributing to Reddit. We need to stop being so dependable on US social media giants.
monogram@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 332d
someguy3@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 333d
Much better than long dead accounts that subscribed.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 333d
someguy3@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 332d
Why should they show subscribers of dead accounts? I think they only kept that to "prop up" numbers before the IPO.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 332d
someguy3@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 332d
It's literally the exact opposite. Subscribers from dead accounts aren't active, they aren't part of the community, they aren't discussing. They are dead accounts.
The people that ARE in the community are the actual users that show up on a regular basis. THAT is what shows the actual size of the community. Not that it was once a default sub for hundreds of thousands of accounts that are no longer active.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 332d
someguy3@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 332d
Yeah but it's not solved JFC. Could could could isn't accomplished by their currently showing subscribers of dead accounts. JFC.
And it couldn't be solved easily anyway. What's a dead account? Log in once a year? That's certainly not active in that community. But hey let's count that anyway, right? Subscribed but all you do is browse all? Not active, but let's count that too, right? A game is popular for a while and gets tons of subscribers, then peters off and the people don't unsub and just browse all. Again: not active, but fuck it let's count that too. See the problem yet? Subscriber is way vaguer (your word) than actual participants.
Enjoy the last word if you want it.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 332d
scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 2 pts · 332d
Because there is a level of stability in subreddits with >50k ish subscribers that subs smaller than that just don't have. You might have a lot of MAU because a sub hit r/all multiple times but goes back down to a much smaller number following that because it's out of the news.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 332d
The point is they don't actually have 50k subscribers if 30k of those are dead accounts. They have 20k. Showing 50k accomplishes absolutely nothing. What stability? Stability in use? No. Stability in shown numbers? Yay but it's fake. Any and all default subs that are auto subscribed have pumped up numbers when users leave.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 332d
Lemmy needs to stop obsessing over everything Reddit does.