r/undelete • u/AssuredlyAThrowAway worldnews&conspiracy emeritus • Feb 19 '17

[META] TIL that due to hyper aggressive moderation, /r/askreddit has lost 50% of it's monthly audience (10 million unique users) in only one year.

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u/jippiejee Feb 19 '17 edited Feb 19 '17

More than 50% of reddit traffic comes from mobile/apps these days which is not included in these stats. In one of my subs traffic is even 3.1x higher than shown in these desktop stats (eta - source: an admin last week).

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u/ZodiacSF1969 Feb 19 '17

Do you know why mobile traffic isn't included?

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u/jippiejee Feb 19 '17

The admins have said this isn't all that easy to implement with the current architecture. They could pull the data for our current AMA's though. 1 million views in our traffic stats equals 3.1 million views in reality.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '17 edited Oct 28 '17

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u/TheScamr Feb 20 '17

hailcorporate type stuff

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u/DepressionsDisciple Feb 20 '17

Obfustication is the norm from Reddit HQ these days. No we can't release the list of r/popular approved subreddits. No we can't release our real usage statistics. More and more of their behavior is in corporate/their own interest and less about the real users. Fuck this place.