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> reddit's Digg exodus moment

People keep bringing this up and I feel like there's a fundamental misunderstanding going on. The internet of 2010 is not the internet of today, not even close.

The average reddit user of today isn't going to stop using reddit due to problems like this because they just don't care, at all. They don't care about the new web design being a massive downgrade over the old one because they're used to every website looking like that, they have no complaints, many of them probably don't even know the old design still exists. They don't care that the app sucks and is full of ads because, again, most official apps for most websites are like that, it's the new normal. They just want to scroll through funny meme videos on their phone for a while and don't think about it beyond that, the age of the average user having standards is long, long gone.

>>bakugo+(OP)
Exactly right and saddening as well. Their growth strategy is clearly working because based on MAU graphs it seems like most Reddit users joined in the past 2-3 years which is when all this stuff started. I wouldn't be surprised if the average comment length is half of what it was even 5 years ago. A lot of the growth seems to have come from mobile users but mobile users are terrible from a comment quality perspective so I hope this ultimately backfires in some way though I'm not hopeful.

>>bakugo+(OP)
If the digg exodus taught C level's anything, it's that digg's target market isn't worth marketing to. They're too picky. Reddit and everyone else has used that market to get the ball off the ground and then pivot AWAY from them ever since. The last thing you want is a userbase that has opinions when there's so many out there who will put up with anything.