> To lose 95.8% of your site (judged by the 8467 out of 8838 subreddits gone dark)

That's out of the 8838 that made a pledge to go dark. Those ~400 are just the ones that went "restricted" (read-only) instead of private, or flaked on the pledge.

There are over a million subreddits, the blackout doesn't even reach one percent of them.

Anyone can make a subreddit if it's not been taken but you're right in that the real impact is by # of users affected.

I think if what I read is true that ~ 1/2 of the top subreddits went dark that is a big outage. FWIW my reddit is not really usable except for 1 sub that I read.

Your denominator is pretty much useless in terms of measuring user impact since subreddit subscriber size is not evenly distributed.

It's about 70% of the largest subreddits: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

There are plenty still open, but many of those million are dead anyway. I've made half dozen and abandoned them all.

CEO caught lying multiple times this week, known to abuse admin powers to manipulate narrative, and completely failing to understand the entity he is in charge of says there is no significant impact from the blackout. Nothing to see here, move along.

We are talking about the CEO who edited user comments that criticized him: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-ceo-edits-user-comment...

It's about 70% of the top 1500 subreddits

https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

Does not look like there is a huge dip in new posts/comments. Except for that short time when reddit went down yesterday.