The app is probably the only reason Reddit has any commercial value.
The website version is almost unusable without old.reddit.com and a reformatting/feature adding plug-in called RES. I have to assume there is a huge crossover between people who will seek out plugins and people who run ad blocks or VPNs. I'd love to see a breakdown of just how little Reddit make per user on ads on the web based site.
This is before we begin to discuss the major functional problems with Reddit...
- Any community over 5k-10k users dips in quality extremely quickly.
- Any unprepared sub which gets randomly hurled on to the top of /r/all will have issues for weeks if not months after.
- Geo related subs reflect the actual locations so poorly its an embarrassment to the city/country.
- The voting system which along with subscriber growth only helps speed up the hivemind effect.
- Finally powermods who seem to treat reddit as a second job, manipulating a large amount of the content based on their own personal feelings.
The website version is almost unusable without old.reddit.com and a reformatting/feature adding plug-in called RES. I have to assume there is a huge crossover between people who will seek out plugins and people who run ad blocks or VPNs. I'd love to see a breakdown of just how little Reddit make per user on ads on the web based site.
This is before we begin to discuss the major functional problems with Reddit...
- Any community over 5k-10k users dips in quality extremely quickly.
- Any unprepared sub which gets randomly hurled on to the top of /r/all will have issues for weeks if not months after.
- Geo related subs reflect the actual locations so poorly its an embarrassment to the city/country.
- The voting system which along with subscriber growth only helps speed up the hivemind effect.
- Finally powermods who seem to treat reddit as a second job, manipulating a large amount of the content based on their own personal feelings.