“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
Haha an average session on the website was about eight and a half minutes. Must be alot of folks that come to see one post and leave to average out those of us that are terminally online.
i think the average user just scrolls it on the loo
Yes. Average users = people shitting. Power users = office workers avoiding work. So mote it be.
In the name of God and the Holy Saint’s John.
8 minutes is about how long most people in hourly quota based jobs can comfortably take a bathroom break each hour, 12 minutes or so when you factor in walking to the bathroom and washing your hands.
A few years ago my average session was like 6 hours…
My reddit average daily traffic dropped 100% 😀
I mean I had to check out the sexy John Oliver pics but I did unsubscribe from everything so my front page was empty.
and I assume I’ll be back before the 30th to deface my posts
I’m all over the place with that, (deleting/changing posts). I’ll likely close my 12yo account but not sure where I’ll land on the old comments
I’m doing my part!
The only good Spez is a broke Spez!
I’M FROM BUENOS AIRES, AND I SAY BANKRUPT 'EM ALL!
Hello pizza sibling.
OMG, yes. Bravo on the choice of pizza.
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.
Same. Plus not many people here yet so I got a sweet username.
Too bad we don’t get userids so we could boast about our low-digit uid for extra cred, like back in the Slashdot days (low 5-digit Slashdot user here :p)
The bragging rights of a 4 or 5 number ICQ user.
Presumably we’ll still have account age, at least.
Is 5 low? ;) (3-digit user here; commence the Yorkshiremen sketch)
Same
You did get a sweet username
Of course, if you wanted a name that was always taken you could just join another federated site. For example, you’re FloridaMan@kbin.social but there could also be a FloridaMan@lemmy.world, etc.
I’m still learning how this works. Thank you
Yep. The day the Boost app on my phone stops working is the day I cease visiting Reddit entirely. It’s about sending a message.
rif for me. but yeah especially after finding out there was a profit sharing agreement in place that spaz cancelled.
When I read that I was astonished.
He literally threw free money away… for what exactly?
Wait, what? First I’m hearing of that, do you have a link where I could read more?
I’m all about taking the power out of corporate hands. Back to the glory mess of community driven internet
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.
I went from Slide to Apollo. When I heard about the API news, I tried out their official app, and it was just horrible. There were even ads in the comments!
Definitely. No Infinity, no Reddit. Lemmy, kbin, others. Reddit can go jump. Exciting times!
Damn, nearly forgot - fuck spez.
@SpaceCadet2000 @lynny @MargotRobbie In my case is no Infinity for Reddit and no Firefox + uBlock Origin, no Reddit.
I mention Firefox because they’re working into block browsers on mobile devices too.
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).
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.”
It’s wild how much damage reddit has done to their image in a short few months
Reddit is on its way to being the next Facebook.
Reddit will continue to highlight Weekly/Monthly Average Users to the press and advertisers, since those metrics won’t take much of a hit. You visit the site once to vote in a poll in favor of continuing the blackouts, you’ll get counted in those.
Those more granular metrics like session length and especially Total Posts Viewed are what really matter when you’re trying to run ads, and it’s hard to imagine a world in which those did not take a huge hit when most of the major subreddits are either blacked out, or (even better) flooding the front page with repetitive pictures of John Oliver.
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, you can, mainly for going ad-free. And if Reddit had simply given every subscriber a private API key for their account and let the 3rd party apps use user-supplied API keys, Reddit would have probably actually made more money without getting any serious API-related blowback.
Yeah but see, that would require the Reddit CEO not being a giant fucking moron. Instead, well, we got what we got. lmao
Haven’t opened reddit since Monday.
I keep opening it but only to re-delete my posts. Gotta work eventually, right?
Yes Obviously its working hence why the admins are now so Aggressive in demoding mods and forcing subs open.
