Good news for those who aren’t using Reddit anymore: this DT has almost twice as many comments as the one on Reddit. Thats good for us, since I and a few others were expecting a lot of people to zoom on back to Reddit the moment the sub reopened
One interesting thing I noted from a quick flick through, there seems to be a lot less replies to comments, but a similar amount or maybe even more upvotes than usual. Makes sense since the sub has about 600k members, and like 95% lurk (what’s that effect called again? The 90-9-1 rule I think?)
It probably won’t last though, I don’t think we’ll lose many people just put of losing interest at this point, but since Reddit is by far the larger platform and r/Melbourne the larger community, it’s just kinda basic maths that eventually more people will go to the larger community on the larger platform and start engaging there. But at least we have cemented ourselves as a solid alternative Melbourne community off Reddit!
I don’t think this will have any impact. I think the vast majority of reddit users, myself included, had no idea there was anything other than the reddit ap or desktop. I googled how many Apollo users there are, looks like about 2million. Reddit says it has 1.6 billion active users. I dunno if those numbers have any accuracy (zero fact checking) but I think the API date will be a wimper for user numbers not the bang it’s been hyped to be.
Good news for those who aren’t using Reddit anymore: this DT has almost twice as many comments as the one on Reddit. Thats good for us, since I and a few others were expecting a lot of people to zoom on back to Reddit the moment the sub reopened
One interesting thing I noted from a quick flick through, there seems to be a lot less replies to comments, but a similar amount or maybe even more upvotes than usual. Makes sense since the sub has about 600k members, and like 95% lurk (what’s that effect called again? The 90-9-1 rule I think?)
It probably won’t last though, I don’t think we’ll lose many people just put of losing interest at this point, but since Reddit is by far the larger platform and r/Melbourne the larger community, it’s just kinda basic maths that eventually more people will go to the larger community on the larger platform and start engaging there. But at least we have cemented ourselves as a solid alternative Melbourne community off Reddit!
The API changes haven’t actually hit yet. There’s a bunch of apollo/rif users about to get their access yeeted.
Yeah, I know. That’s why I’m still on reddit
I don’t think this will have any impact. I think the vast majority of reddit users, myself included, had no idea there was anything other than the reddit ap or desktop. I googled how many Apollo users there are, looks like about 2million. Reddit says it has 1.6 billion active users. I dunno if those numbers have any accuracy (zero fact checking) but I think the API date will be a wimper for user numbers not the bang it’s been hyped to be.