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Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead. (redditinc.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37201414

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

lol, watch YouTube do the same and creators flip the fuck out.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

to be fair, a minority of video creators (and nearly no subreddits) have very long or sporadic upload schedules, which would make the MAU metric be weird bursts. MAU works for regular content which Reddit pretty much always is while only the top YouTube creators do that.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Weekly active users.

Also, just show the new stat. No need to hide the subscriber total.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So for a channel that releases like 10 videos a year?

Tbh I could probably think of something but really what is even the point in it? Like it doesn't even matter to me how many people are watching a youtube video. At least a community on lemmy the active users are the people you are talking to. But watching a video is the same with 1 or 1B views.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Remember that my original comment was pointing out that YouTubers would flip out if they switched to this metric.

I agree with you.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 day ago

Weekly would make the weird bursting even worse.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This kind of already happens there though. Video view counts are visible and often way below a channel's sub count.

Sure, there are exceptions (viral video views often far exceeding the sub count), but by and large they're a good metric for seeing how a channel is actually doing.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, you can infer it.

But no one is making a thank you video because they reached a weekly active users metric.

[–] InvestBurnout@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought they already are doing that?

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That’s news to me. They took away subscriber numbers? YouTubers still talk about them.

And this is the number behind the plaques they send out to people. I can’t image them stopping that. They won’t send plaques based on weekly average activity numbers.

[–] InvestBurnout@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

I was thinking of the drop in views that some creators are reporting... not subscribers. My bad!