Reddit’s average daily traffic fell during blackout, according to third-party data
Reddit’s average daily traffic fell during blackout, according to third-party data | Engadget
spez: 'tis but a scratch!
3rd-party data: your arm's off!
edit: I will say that I have it on good authority that their upload traffic has increased considerably from someone (I won't say who) uploading a bunch of 1gb videos of static to random subs using a band new throwaway account from behind a VPN. :)
"Wow, look at these great metrics! With all these new user uploads, people must really love our site."
Hopefully there's another wave of power users moving to Lemmy/Kbin after the 30th.
For me it's simple: no sync, no reddit.
I'm never going to use their app.
Yeah, I switched from RedReader to Slide to Infinity, never even considered the official Reddit app, it's so slow and there's so much ad there.
Same. Plus not many people here yet so I got a sweet username.
rif for me. but yeah especially after finding out there was a profit sharing agreement in place that spaz cancelled.
It's a good bet. Breaking habits is hard, but removing some people's preferred way of using Reddit forces them to go cold turkey. It's a great opportunity for all the alternatives.
I started “dual using” lemmy right when the original Apollo news broke. I say “dual using” because while that was my intention, I’ve been back to Reddit exactly once, to request my information package (which has yet to be provided).
I’m not missing Reddit as much as I thought I would, however I do miss Apollo
On one hand I'm glad the blackouts made a noticeable dent and moved reddit (the site) into a response of some sort.
On the other hand, reddit (the site) is not going to back down because they already revealed their hand and they're motivated by $$$ which is a strong-ass motivator.
On the third hand, the majority of reddit (the users) are back and still using it, which proves that reddit (the site) was correct in staying on their course. Those users now have a negative outlook on both the corporate leadership AND the mods that run the subreddits, yet they still log in, contributing to the wealth of discussion and information stored in that place.
I am whelmed.
Not everyone is back. See I’m here.
at some point it'll be worth investigating what the "real" cost (inasmuch as this can be determined) for the blackout was to the IPO, and whether the fees Reddit makes of API access makes up for it.
and whether the fees Reddit makes of API access makes up for it.
Are there any 3PA that are even able to afford them? I got the vibe the fees weren’t ever meant to actually end up being paid, but were meant in a roundabout way to block 3PA by pricing them out.
I am still on a blackout. And I canceled my paid Reddit account.
You can pay for Reddit?
Yes Obviously its working hence why the admins are now so Aggressive in demoding mods and forcing subs open.
“According to data provided to Engadget by internet analytics firm Similarweb, the impact was small but noticeable. On the day before the blackout began on June 12th, Similarweb logged more than 57 million daily visits to Reddit across desktop and mobile web clients. By the end of the first day of the protest, daily visits were below 55 million. Then, at the end of June 13th, Similarweb recorded fewer than 52 million daily visits to Reddit. Compared to the website’s average daily volume over the past month, the 52,121,649 visits Reddit saw on June 13th represented a 6.6 percent drop.
Over that same time period, Similarweb recorded a more dramatic decrease in the amount of time Reddit users were spending on the platform. The day before the protest began, an average session on the website was about eight minutes and 31 seconds long. A day later, that metric fell to seven minutes and 17 seconds, or the lowest that stat has been in the past three years. Reddit did not immediately respond to Engadget’s comment request.”
Guess that’s why spez was on such a media blitz the last few days.
General rule of thumb, the more a CEO desperately screams WE ARENT LOSING MONEY I PROMISE, the higher the chance that they're losing a metric shitton of money
It's wild how much damage reddit has done to their image in a short few months
My reddit average daily traffic dropped 100% 😀