Reddit's Traffic Is Going Back to Normal After the Subreddit Blackout
gizmodo.com
While Reddit's traffic took a slight hit in the first days of the moderator-led protest, it appears to be bouncing back to near-normal levels.

The bad, although expected news is that according to Similarweb via Gizmodo Reddit traffic is back to pre-protest levels. The caveat is that some of the traffic might still indicate protests, (i.e. John Oliver pics). Most interesting:

However, Similarweb told Gizmodo traffic to the ads.reddit.com portal, where advertisers can buy ads and measure their impact, has dipped. Before the first blackout began, the ads site averaged about 14,900 visits per day. Beginning on June 13, though, the ads site averaged about 11,800 visits per day, a 20% decrease.

For June 20 and 21, the most recent days for which Similarweb has estimates, the ads site got in the range of 7,500 to 9,000 visits, Carr explained, meaning that ad-buying traffic has continued to drop.>>>

  • jiji@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think any apps are going to be able to afford to pay. They purposefully priced it too high to be viable. At the start there was a few who seemed to tentatively say they’d look in to it, but every app I’ve seen now has done the math a realized there’s just no way.

    • Manu@feddit.de
      0·
      1 year ago

      At least Pushshift made a deal with Reddit and other Accessibility apps are exempt from the payment. If their idea is to push third party apps off the market, that only supports the fact that API access is too expensive for Reddit to provide to said apps.

      • Unaware7013@kbin.social
        8·
        1 year ago

        If their idea is to push third party apps off the market, that only supports the fact that API access is too expensive for Reddit to provide to said apps.

        That’s naive. Pushing 3rd party apps out isn’t about the costs to reddit, it’s the opportunity costs of not being able to mine data from users, and is likely being driven by Steve Huffingpaint in the hopes of driving up the IPO price before bailing on reddit with a golden parachute.

        Current reddit admins don’t give a shit about the long term health of the platform, and the fact that people believe their lies about costs instead of seeing that theyre playing the user base just like they did back with Pao.

      • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        The amount they’re looking for does not line up with any reasonable cost estimates. It’s not a number created based on cost. Based on spez’s comments, it’s clear he’s upset some apps found out how to reliably make money from their users and is just shutting them down.