There are 1,820 Subreddits gone dark and counting, as of this post. Thought others might get a kick out of this; it’s kinda wild watching them go one by one. Really interested to see what this looks like tomorrow.
Does anybody know what is Reddit’s userbase size? It’s difficult to put some of the numbers in https://reddark.untone.uk/ in perspective. Using percentages on the Combined User Count would be more descriptive, for instance.
reddit has something like over 2 million subreddits, but usually claims around 120,000 active subreddits.
As sad as it is to admit, 6000 subreddits is a drop in the fucking bucket.
There’s some pretty big subreddits going down though, /r/tifu just went private and it has 10mil+ subs.
There’s no way there are 120,000 active subreddits, unless ‘active’ means a least one post per month. The same 200 subreddits rotate in r/popular and r/all.
It may be a drop in the bucket, but the long term effect is that there will be fewer people, much fewer mods and those who will remains won’t have the same quality of tools to moderate. And this is happening before they are going public
I’m not trying to say it is pointless, but I am trying to temper my expectations.
