Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits

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barrygateaux@reddit

Subscriber numbers don't reflect how many people use the sub, and give a false impression of how popular a sub is, so this is a good idea.

Reddit subs are like local pubs. Maybe thousands of people have visited over the last 10 years but there are only a few dozen regulars on a daily basis.

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thepottsy@reddit

There’s really no reason why they can’t display all the metrics. It doesn’t hurt anything to show both.

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barrygateaux@reddit

With the amount of bots on Reddit creating accounts it's pointless though. It's not giving a true picture of how many active human users there are using the sub.

Some subs have millions of subscribers but have been dead for a while.

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rushbc@reddit

I still want to see the subscriber count. Show the new metrics, those are fine. But I’d like to see the old metrics too.

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kamakazzi@reddit

It's like your botting for reddit rn, less features doesn't equal good. It's like when YouTube took away the dislike button. if people are dumb, then educate them, or make the information apparent.

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rushbc@reddit

Is there a way to look at the subscriber count if you want to see that?

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Die4Ever@reddit

The member count is being replaced by two metrics. One shows how many users have visited a subreddit in the past seven days, “based on a rolling 28-day average,” according to Reddit, and the other displays how many contributions have been made in the past seven days, excluding any posts or comments that have been removed.

for reference, on old reddit this sub shows 65,265 subs and 24 here now

new reddit this sub shows 20k recent visitors and 207 recent contributions

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Does this do anything to combat Reddit bots? Doesn't seem like it. I'm seeing ads that get +100 upvotes and some crypto scam threads that get some upvotes as well. Something needs to be done about that.

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Jimmy_Fromthepieshop@reddit

Any account upvoting fucking ads should be banned immediately.

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throwingitawaysa@reddit

It honestly seems like it helps the bots. There's already small subreddits full of them and now it would be harder to tell.

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Alarming_Maybe@reddit

this is how they're going to start pushing content they want you to see (or think you want to see) without you choosing to see it... more than they already are

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apokrif1@reddit

How is this related?

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gooberfishie@reddit

My own guess is that an ai wouldn't spend much time "here," as in scrolling, reading, and typing, but it could make a lot of contributions.

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azriel777@reddit

This will be interesting for a lot of old big subs that have a lot of subscribers, but is clearly pretty dead.

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BlazeAlt@reddit

Seems like better metrics, to be honest

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thepottsy@reddit

It really depends on the sub to be honest. There are subs that are “seasonal” for lack of a better word. So they’ll have months with a ton of activity, and then periods of time with no activity.

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Pamasich@reddit

And so after Private Messages and Notifications, another Old Reddit feature bites the dust. While they're replacing the metrics on Shreddit, they also announced they're removing them entirely (with no replacement) on Old Reddit.

You want to know how popular a subreddit is? Better check Shreddit i guess. Luckily they haven't implemented this one yet it seems.

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busymom0@reddit (OP)

What's that?

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