While CEO Steve Huffman may be dismissive of the thousands of subreddits going dark to protest his planned API changes,…

  • HidingCat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Remember the 1% rule; that 6-7% can include a very large number of that 1%, so lots of people that remain are just lurkers. Communities don’t die in a few days, it’s a continual process.

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      1 year ago

      I hadn’t heard of that rule before, that’s an interesting idea! It would be cool to find out if the generation of new posts and comments has declined at a greater rate than the number of views.

    • Havoc
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      Exactly. And at the end of the month, when a non-zero number of users can’t access Reddit the way they want to, the numbers are going to show what a clusterfuck this move was.

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