Submitted 1 month ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://redditinc.com/blog/new-ways-to-see-community-activity-on-reddit
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37201414
I dunno why they wouldn’t display both. Also cynical me thinks this is a more useful change for advertisers than users.
That said this would probably be useful for post ranking on the back end, if they’re not already using it. There’s always been a noticeable thing on reddit where posts on large subs with little activity don’t seem to bubble up much on /r/popular. Which makes those subs seem even deader because they don’t get new blood.
They don’t want to show both because that would show readers exactly when a couple thousand new accounts all start talking about one polarising topic to get everyone agreeing.
That likely happens yes
If I’ve learned anything about the corporate world is that they only want metrics that confirm the views they hold or want to push. I think you have a point though. These are metrics that they can reference when trying to get advertising money. If I was an advertiser I’d care more about how many are not bots though.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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I'm already contributing by reading about it here!
It’s easier to hide the bots this way.
The opposite of it actually. It’s harder to hide suspicious spikes in activity this way
One of the rare changes Reddit has made in recent years that seems like a good idea.
They're also moving to limit the number of large subreddits that any individual moderator account can moderate, which seems like a good thing. Hopefully they'll be serious enough about it that they'll bother to catch the power moderators that simply set up a bunch of different alts for themselves.
Why would they do anything to limit their free labour?
Many of the power mods are in league with the admins, so probably not
They don’t have users on Reddit. They have metrics generating units.
Feck Reddit & Feck Spaz in particular.
Yeah it was a useless metric anyways. What I’ve found is that people use that number to as evidence to some rhetoric. Pretty much every time I point out it’s a useless metric they become very angry.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
seems to make sense on the surface. inactive users are kind of a useless metric.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is an issue with Lemmy too. Searching for a community by keyword ranks the results list by subscribers not by MAUs
Skavau@piefed.social 1 month ago
Piefed 1.2 will fix this.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Sort by “Top-Month”
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
lol, watch YouTube do the same and creators flip the fuck out.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
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.
InvestBurnout@fedia.io 1 month ago
I thought they already are doing that?
palordrolap@fedia.io 1 month ago
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.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 month ago
To be fair, just give users ALL the data. Boom "problem" solved.
cm0002@piefed.world 1 month ago
Lemmy has this problem too, its why many think .ml has all these huge comms, but thankfully by MAUs, only like Linux and Privacy are top
(What's the problem with Lemmy.ml?