> As for the reddit site itself I wonder what is the ratio of old.reddit viewers vs reddit viewers are.
I moderate a top 100 sub and if the built-in stats are to be believed, the recent breakdown is something like:
= Pageviews =
40% apps
28% old reddit
17% mobile reddit
15% new reddit
= Unique visits =
41% mobile reddit
27% new reddit
24% apps
8% old reddit
This doesn't really capture the ratio of contributors who use each (or perhaps, more interestingly, number of contributions per platform), but it's hard for me to guess that accurately since new-reddit detractors are a very vocal group.
I moderate a rather popular programming subreddit (whose users you would expect to be more conscious of newreddit vs oldreddit), here's the eyeballed breakdown of our stats:
--- Monthly uniques (200k total):
New Reddit: 55%
Mobile Web: 20%
Reddit Apps: 15%
Old Reddit: 10%
--- Monthly Pageviews (3M total):
New Reddit: 30%
Mobile Web: 10%
Reddit Apps: 30%
Old Reddit: 30%
So in our case, while the ones using Old Reddit are the fewest in number, they are also the most engaged.
I wonder how many of those "new reddit" hits are unintentional (like someone who doesn't want to log into reddit on their work computer, so the setting for "old" reddit doesn't stick)
Edit: Just for comparison, I moderate a medium sized sports subreddit. Traffic waxes and wanes a bit based on when games happen, the memeability of recent events, and the activities of Donald Trump. We see a lot more app traffic, and new reddit is about as rare as people using mobile browsers.
Well it's hard to guess what the admins are planning. They said it would stay around for the foreseeable future but I agree their changes are becoming increasingly adversarial. (EDIT: Though new reddit has brought about a number of good improvements to the moderating experience. Sadly at this point the mod community had already implemented all of them and more via 3rd party browser extensions...)
Our community might have a slight old-reddit bias -- we have a core group that doesn't like change -- but I have a hard time believing it could have a terribly large effect once the numbers are in the millions.
I moderate a top 100 sub and if the built-in stats are to be believed, the recent breakdown is something like:
= Pageviews =
40% apps
28% old reddit
17% mobile reddit
15% new reddit
= Unique visits =
41% mobile reddit
27% new reddit
24% apps
8% old reddit
This doesn't really capture the ratio of contributors who use each (or perhaps, more interestingly, number of contributions per platform), but it's hard for me to guess that accurately since new-reddit detractors are a very vocal group.