While im skeptical old reddit would be overall more popular, its not valid to look at traffic. You have to know what old reddit is to even get there -- few do. The fact that its up to 10% is frankly astonishingly high imo.
10% of users intentionally choosing anything besides a default is crazy high
Probably incredibly subreddit dependent.
I think it speaks volumes that Old Reddit hasn't been removed. Even the maintenance burden of continually supporting it is outweighed by its value.
Re:Give It the Craigslist Test
by doublepg23 on Saturday May 06, 2023 @05:33PM
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They announced new API terms and will be charging for access.
I think such a bold move means the demise of old.reddit.com is closer than ever.
When old reddit dies, so will much of the content reddit has; I suspect that the percentage of good posts that are made from old.reddit is much higher than 10%.
But what do I know? TikTok is a thing, apparently.
Old man proceeds outside to yell at the Cloud
Re:Give It the Craigslist Test
by BeFlatXIII on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:28PM
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…but that may be the loud minority who posts the content that attracts all the New Reddit users.
Re:Give It the Craigslist Test
by marginalia_nu on Saturday May 06, 2023 @05:30PM
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New Reddit unbelievably enough still hasn't fixed the bug where it crashes if you paste text in the input. Whoever is using it is sure not overlapping with the segment that ever participates in any sort of discussion on desktop.
... and also clearly none of the reddit development team is using it either. How else would they miss a breaking bug for five years?! It's not like inputting text is a niche feature.
Moderators can see the traffic breakdown and old reddit traffic hovers around 5-10% of total traffic depending on community.
I think the "loud minority" is a concept that is very very applicable here.