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If you have a reddit account and go to the site not logged in the site looks like trash. The articles seem worse than what you see when logged in. Similar to YouTube if you aren't logged in you see the trashiest videos on the "unlogged in" main page.

I don't know if that's on purpose or it's just like that. But there seems to be a big difference in the quality depending on whether you are logged in or not.

As for the reddit site itself I wonder what is the ratio of old.reddit viewers vs reddit viewers are. I've used reddit for over a decade and absolutely hate the new style I only go to old.reddit if that changes and only new reddit is available I'll abandon my account (or sell it to Russians ha! Kidding.).

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> 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.

Oh damn, old is so high. I thought the old would be lower than new.

I guess I shouldn't be so afraid of old going away soon then :)

I'm using old Reddit, on mobile.

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 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.

If a programming-related search takes me to Reddit, I always get the new version and I don't like it at all.

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.

Our ~416k page views are distributed like this:

Apps: 62%

Mobile browsers: 7%

Old reddit: 25%

New reddit: 6%

For a month of uniques (48k):

Apps: 54%

Mobile browsers: 12%

Old reddit: 21%

New reddit: 12%

Well shoot I never thought about checking stats.

I just checked one of my subreddits and for the Pageviews stats I see graphs for old reddit 3,500 vs new reddit 15,000.

Unique visits: old 1,200 vs new 9,370

I find that much of a difference surprising.

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