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Ha. First thing I compared it to as well. It's a micro-storm in a very large tea-cup. Reddit will survive and the tiny and temporary (and already abandoned) actions of a few mods might shoot a few people off to Voat or another site but it won't do anything for the vast majority.

Default reddit is terrible to me. But there is virtually no overlap between my front page and the default front page. I am not subscribed to AMA. This whole thing just passed me by.

I'm not into heavy customization usually, but for reddit it is where all the value lies for me.

It also allows me to avoid most of the sexism and racism that does so well on there.

People said the same thing about Digg... Who would abandon the site over something like a redesign?

I took it off my bookmarks bar and added Voat. And besides, the Voat goat is cute.

I think there is something real there, look at this: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-GB&q=Reddit+alte...

You could probably see these trends as evidence of discontent, and from this view, reddit discontent is growing.

the last week results are weirdly oscillating https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-GB&q=Reddit+alte...

Whoops, that's what I was trying to post :)