This is actually another of Reddit's decisions that I'm in agreement with. Subscriber count isn't a very useful number, it largely just measures how old a subreddit is. You can already see how old the subreddit is much more accurately by looking at its founding date.
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goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks agoGotta boost user numbers.
Or obscure them considering not letting people see sub count only daily/weekly activities
FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 weeks ago
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
If they’d added, yes. But removing it completely is just a way to hide how many are on the platform.
Or left in a protest
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 weeks ago
You’ve got that backwards.
Active users are literally all that matter. When a user is banned permanently from Reddit, they aren’t unsubscribed from any subs. They’re still included in the total subscriber number.
Showing total subscriber numbers is hiding the details. Showing active user counts is the opposite.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 weeks ago
Total subscriber number is useless, daily/weekly/monthly active users is infinitely more important and useful.
ronl2k@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The user numbers were bogus anyway since Reddit didn’t automatically decrement the user number after banning a member. The banned member had to manually unjoin the subreddit. So the membership count was inflated with banned members.
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
That’s it. It’s the illusion of fairness and it takes away reddit jannies’ ability to show off their powermod status, and that’s the only incentive they have not to use sockpuppets for every sub they mod.