Re:Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area
by icebraining on Friday May 13, 2016 @11:21AM
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MMOs already existed, the hype was about 3D chatrooms and such. In any case, as much a success as they are, WoW at its peak still had less than half the users of Orkut, let alone Whatsapp or Facebook. It's relatively niche compared to the expectations.
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Habbo, even though it has an enormous churn rate since it mostly attract teens, is still one of the most successful communities out there. It just that now these things are commonplace so it's not very exciting anymore.
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Re:Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area
by icebraining on Friday May 13, 2016 @01:48PM
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According to its wiki page, Habbo has ~5 million monthly uniques. HN has 3. Reddit has 227.
Habbo has many registrations because of the churn rate you mentioned and that it's been around for 16 years, but it's not that big. And it certainly doesn't make billions.