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I can't believe how pro-reddit sentiment is. It's like a totally different reality.

https://www.reddit.com/r/boulder/comments/156wih1/disappointed_by_reddit_but_dont_know_where_else/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your graph only three data points. Lets say hypothetically the traffic was 100m requests/yr and dropped off immediately after the redesigned you'd still expect to see something like

  • 2009 - 100m
  • 2010 - 60m
  • 2011 - 0

This page has some graphs with more data points but the tl;dr is traffic was down by more than 50% within a month.

Admittedly reddit's growth was much more muted but Digg did really just destroy the site.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Indeed, that's much more of a "cliff." Sorry, I should have spent more time trying to find that more-detailed graph I saw earlier. But as you say, it took a long time for Reddit to grow. And Digg's remaining activity was surprisingly stable for a "dead" website - half the users seem to have stuck around indefinitely.