Technology

I'm not really surprised, I'd actually assume that sexy John Oliver and the other protests created a lot of additional traffic. People post like crazy and a lot of people want to see that, especially since it got some coverage on news sites. Add to that the big majority of people who do not care (remember that 80% of traffic was still reached) plus some who may have been sympathetic enough to join the two day protest but don't care enough to continue to stay away. It's really not surprising that we're back to normal numbers.

Thankfully this isn't the only impact people currently still make, so this isn't over. The real question now will be how else it might change Reddit.

maybe i'll use the web version for some time, not gonna use their app for sure

I don't think most people understand the protests. I had to explain it to two people who use the platform.

This doesn't surprise me. Most people don't have the time or desire to keep up with tech news, and they just want to feed their addiction. It'll be interesting to see what happens 1~2 weeks after the new API rules are active, and people realize the app they use no longer works.

I never created a Reddit account, and only visited under duress, so I'm not really affected by this. So I'm just cooking up popcorn & watching the show.

I look up my acct and see my deleted comments and posts being magically revived. Did screen caps of most of it and it is definitely a real thing. Is that a metric for traffic?

Did anybody seriously expect anything different?

My first reaction was one of questioning the statistics.

Then I realized that the way they were generating their stats wouldn’t have counted me for the most part.

Then I realized that I wasn’t really all that unique; most power users wouldn’t have shown up in those stats.

At that point, the stats made more sense.

Oh, man, I'm sure the traffic is up... It took me FOREVER to delete all my comments and posts across 18 accounts. That 5 second lockout on API calls is a total bitch!