The reddit blackout is even more effectivte than expected! 5177/8829 (~60%) of subreddits are still dark [1] and the posts per minute are down to 1000 from 1400 [2].
This is huge. Subreddits were supposed to be back up yesterday. I personally missed Reddit the first day but now I am super comfortable here.
Glad to have found a new place to hang out!
Edit: Reddit has 100k subs, 60% out of those who officially signed up
The fact that hundreds of thousands of users - probably the most valuable ones - are not using reddit (actively) for a few a days now is just astonishing. Sure, the amount of aggregated information over there is still huge so no one can be blamed for casually looking for something specific.
But those users here are the ones initiating the engagement, creating the posts and providing valueable and original content. That dropped drastically.
The majority of users only lurk and comment. Or are bots.
Yup. I’ve gone on Reddit a few times in the past couple days, but mostly wound up there due to working on electronics projects and search results from Reddit having the information I needed. The only actual engagement I’ve had with the site has been in the form of comments encouraging people to come over here.
Conversely, I recently posted a massive infodump over on /m/PS2 in order to help kick-start that community.