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Reddit Surpasses Facebook To Become the Third Most Visited Site in the US: Alexa (thenextweb.com)
According to Alexa, the Amazon-owned web traffic analyzing platform, more people now visit Reddit than Facebook in the US. From a report: Spotted, of course, on Reddit by user IamATechieNerd, the stats will be a big boost for the social sharing platform, especially with many users still irked about the recent re-design. It's important to note that analyzing web traffic using a tool like Alexa is not an exact science, but it's interesting that it has now put Reddit ahead of Facebook. If the stats are to be believed, Google is still the most visited site, followed by YouTube, Reddit, and Facebook, with Amazon rounding out the top five.
Facebook? Reddit? Alexa?
What are these things? Get offa my lawn!
Well Reddit for one is the greatest gathering of crackpots, conspiracy theorists and perverts in the know universe, Facebook is an ego singularity and Alexa (well at least in my experience) is completely useless.
Alexa mesures HTML / website visits to facebook.com. However, the vast majority of people who use Facebook use the FB app on a mobile device. A very tiny fraction of FB users do so using the website now. Facebook has 1.45 BILLION daily users. That's how many hits Reddit sees in an entire month.
Better known as 318230.
Re: Facebook, ask your kids what it is. Not your grandkids -- they'll just tell you 'Facebook is for old people' and send you back to your kids.
Reddit is a pretty general site, the quality of what you find varies wildly by subreddit. The front page is pretty bad, but individual boards can have some of the best discussions around.
However, Reddit just seems like a crappy forum that doesn't even measure up to a freakin' Php-nuke or vBulletin site.
Reddit is a collection of subreddits that are focused around particular topics. So the quality of commenting is relative to which subreddit you're in. The default reddits, presumably, don't attract the typical slashdot crowd. And there are tons of extremely deep, esoteric subreddits. The thing that makes reddit great is two things:
1. You can subscribe to different subreddits and customize your feed
2. The comment voting system and sorting system is pretty much the best the internet has come up with, and lets you filter out the garbage pretty easily.
Here are some subreddits that I like that might appeal to the slashdot crowd to get you started. Part of the fun of reddit is discovering and subscribing to new subreddits: