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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.
Kind of like how Moscow Donald got 3 million less votes than his opponent, but is in the White House doing Russia's bidding as an unregistered foreign agent.
HILLARY IN PRISON
I keep hearing about this 'reddit' and I've been there twice. Both times I found it to be a confusing mess that doesn't seem to offer anything different than anywhere else on the Internet, and most of the people there seem at least as bad as the denizens of the infamous 4chan. Is news like this story a sign that we've reached Peak Internet at some point, and we're on the downhill side of it now?
Facebook? Reddit? Alexa?
What are these things? Get offa my lawn!
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Time for Reddcoin to climb in value! How about a target of $10 per coin?
#DeleteFacebook
"I found it to be a confusing mess..."
It amazes me that, after many years, Reddit has not improved its web site design.
I unfollowed everyone on facebook because it's mostly just pointless or political crap that I couldn't care less about or I would piss people off by responding with devil's advocate tendencies. comments on posts are just as bad mixed with horrible filtering of "top comments". Reddit though feels much more useful on specific topics and hell I don't even have a reddit account, but a lot of times if I am looking up a subject or troubleshooting something I usually will click on reddit posts that come up in search first because usually comments are more useful, at least more useful than anything I ever saw on facebook.
Remember when all the alt-right manbabies threw tantrums when Reddit declined to be a platform for their vile, hateful, screeds?
Reddit is dead! Dead they said!
How's voat doing nowadays?
It fell off last week. It is pretty inconvenient since having no butthole means i have to piss out my shit. It's painful.
Everybody knows Slashdot, the news for nerds, gets the most real people. Love all the tech stories and discussions there. Glad they're not political!
Do the owners of reddit still do mass fake posts to lure users into signing up? Ima guessing yes.
Used to be every community hosted its own forum. Now it's all on reddit, and reddit owns all their data.
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.
Google is still the most visited site, followed by YouTube, Reddit, and Facebook, with Amazon rounding out the top five.
Sure, but 37.8% of the hits to Amazon are people checking Alexa to see how popular their web sites are.
Huh. Is Alexa still relevant?
I think that's the real discussion to be had here.
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Well if Alexa says so then it's so! Bow to your information master!
I'm an old(er) fart who has been watching the absolutely fascinating phenomenon of social media for decades. (Yes, I do mean decades -- Google "FidoNet" for interesting reading if you're into that dusty historical stuff. I arrived a little late in the game with my pokey 300-baud modem, but I was there. I even bought my first domain name when Network Solutions -- colloquially "NetSol" -- was still the only game in town. Network Solutions charged $70 a year per domain name and offered a horribly unintuitive user interface -- faugh!)
I've accumulated a few observations from watching the long rise of Google and Facebook as well as the rise and fall of other successful or not-so-successful social media and web search platforms such as AOL, MySpace, AltaVista, GeoCities, Twitter, Snapchat, etc., etc., etc. Shall I include hoary old Usenet in that list? It's virtually a tautology to attribute the wild success of the web to the absurd simplicity of posting a simple website with basic HTML tags. Nor does the swamping of the modern web with extremely complex frameworks meant to overcome profound design flaws in the web detract from this point.
Anyways. For whatever it's worth, I've noticed that once a web service, be it a search engine or a social media platform, moves beyond obviously useful and non-confusing features into self-important "lookit what we can do now" frippery, it starts losing its original appeal and eventually its regular visitors. Facebook currently holds immense power as the default destination for hundreds of millions of people, but the company isn't immune to the fickle mindsets of customers for its brand of free and paid services (advertising in particular). The recent antics of the ultra-liberal leaderships of Google, Facebook, and Twitter in subtly or obviously silencing prominent conservative and libertarian voices and thereby gradually alienating a wider audience constitute only one of several serious problems.
Possibly more critical to the futures of these companies is the constant, ruthless manipulation of their audiences for maximum profitability. Mind you -- I say "maximum" profitability and not an enlightened "optimum" profitability. The former is the attitude of a greedy robber baron, and the latter is the attitude of a cautious business that knows what its customers want. Put simply, Facebook and Twitter in particular have become seriously annoying. Google isn't all that far behind. Their hundreds of programmers scamper here and yon in an unending effort to add features with little regard to how they clutter up the user experience. Hey, they've got to justify their salaries. Students of private and government bureaucracies learn this in Governance and Corporate Culture 101.
Most people want to talk to their friends and share pictures and videos without having to fight and kick and struggle against manipulative, intrusive, self-serving algorithms that keep nudging and prodding them into buying this and that or forcing them to interact with their friends in certain ways and not others. Let's not even get into the absurdities of a grossly oversimplified "like" system at Facebook that permits no subtleties of approval or disapproval. Beyond a certain point -- don't ask me where that point lies -- they silently and almost invisibly become ready and willing in their tens of millions to to suddenly abandon an old, familiar platform for a better platform that does exactly what they want it to do and nothing further.
Please note the concept of "non-confusing," which isn't quite the same thing as the older and more limited concept of "user-friendly." "Non-confusing" encompasses everything about the user experience. It means the platform only does what it absolutely must for the mainstream experience while making side trips like photographic manipulation as obviously simple as possible -- in and out and done. Visual triggers are okay but only if they quietly hover in the background with nil annoying behavior like flashing, blinking, sliding, jittering
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Once again, msmash, that's not how you do it. The person speaking goes before the colon, and the thing he says comes after.
fb doesn't have pr0n. reddit has lots and lots of it.
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
to become another backwater no longer having influence or significance, like myspace or yahoo's geocities or some other prototype social networking website that is dead or dying
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
reddit used to be good until all the losers from Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and digg 3.0 arrived.
https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/41054l/moderators_new_subreddit_settings_for_mobile/cyyj9rp/
As of two years ago, 50% of their users were mobile and climbing. I see no reason to assume that trend dropped off, so if Alexa is discounting the vast majority of Reddit's traffic as well then it's very likely Reddit is still beating Facebook.
And good riddance to Facebook.
FUCK BETA!
What'll happen next year?
I finally checked out what Reddit it, and it looks like a boring version of 9gag for more normal people.
Meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg has been heard, while checking the grocery list sticked on his fridge :
- WhatsApp... okay...
- Instagram... okay...
- reddit... Oh, crap! I forgot to buy it !
Then went and called the "snapchat clonign team" asking them if they could add a few more goals on their list ?
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Both are Jewish owned.
I like Reddit for a general aggregator. It is whatever you subscribe to, and you can display what you want out of those subscriptions. It is pretty clean, and only gets busy on certain subreddits. It has resisted a lot of change over the past years in spite of inner turmoil.
But who the hell uses NetCraft anymore?
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