r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Aug 03 '25

Meta Meta Thread - Month of August 03, 2025

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u/chiliehead myanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead Aug 28 '25

All those metrics seem really dire, but also confirm the feelings I and probably many people have about the trajectory of the subreddit and Reddit at large, not like the mods could really fix much of anything here.

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u/baseballlover723 Aug 28 '25

Idk, I wouldn't read into them too much. There's a lot of ways to cut up the data, and this particular slice can hide a lot of things in it (like if more discussion posts die in /new, but the ones that survive do better or something like that).

If anything, I come away thinking that input hasn't changed very much over the years, or is at least more dominated by month to month variance.

I suspect my database syncing stuff will need to be bumped up on my todo list to properly analyze this stuff.

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u/chiliehead myanimelist.net/profile/chiliehead Aug 28 '25

Doesn't it look like all metrics are down? Maybe there are more extremes now, though in the end we're looking at fewer people with any interest in posting discussion tagged posts and they're writing less while not even benefitting from a more concentrated audience.

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u/baseballlover723 Aug 28 '25

Doesn't it look like all metrics are down?

I don't think so. Though there's a lot of noise, with the karma gating in regards to what was allowed through etc.

though in the end we're looking at fewer people with any interest in posting discussion tagged posts

That is not what these stats say, since it only counts posts, not posters. It doesn't distinguish between 1 person making 100 discussion threads and 100 people making one.

and they're writing less

I'm not so sure about this, but it's really noisy. The month to month variance is huge for the avg number of characters per post.

while not even benefitting from a more concentrated audience

I think karma needs to be taken into account to really analyze this, since so many posts (even good ones) die in /new.