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[user1234]

On Friday, 31 July 2026 at 21:49:42 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
> On Friday, 31 July 2026 at 14:59:32 UTC, user1234 wrote:
>> On Thursday, 30 July 2026 at 09:00:22 UTC, matheus wrote:
>>> Years ago I made a game and posted on that same site, it hit 
>>> the top for long hours and stayed on the front page for about 
>>> 2 days, and all I got was about 70K visits (Unique users), 
>>> but when I looked around on google, I found out that at same 
>>> time my url was spread to some reddit subs as well. So is 
>>> hard to say where the visitors came.
>>>
>>> Months later I released another game a posted there, it 
>>> stayed for a couple of hours on the front page and I gathered 
>>> less than 3K visits, this time there was less reddit sharing.
>>>
>>> Matheus.
>>
>> Nowadays there would be even less visit coming from reddit as 
>> r/programming is almost dead.
>
> Yeah, I don't think that subreddit is important these days. At 
> its peak, it was a much bigger deal than HN. It's been a while 
> now, but it made a sudden turn from real programming content to 
> beginner hello world affirmations and memes and low-end trash 
> like that. Not sure why the mods put a stop to it. Or maybe 
> they did, but it's been years since I visited...

That is not just proggit, little history (IA):

Reddit moderator strikes refer to organized protests—most notably 
the June 2023 blackout involving over 8,000 subreddits—where 
volunteer community managers shut down or restrict access to 
forums to protest controversial platform monetization changes and 
API pricing policies.

## Key Events and Tactics

- The 2023 Blackout: Over 8,000 communities went private or 
restricted access for days, with some protesting by exclusively 
posting images of comedian John Oliver or marking boards as NSFW.
- Platform Pushback: Reddit management refused to change their 
policies, threatened to remove uncooperative volunteer 
moderators, and forcefully reopened locked communities.
- Result: The strikes ultimately failed to force policy reversals 
because unpaid moderators were easily replaced by the company and 
most users eventually returned to the platform.

(Back to human thoughts)

So basically it's been 3 years that the plateform is almost dead, 
despite of advertising campaigns (as seen in Paris subway) it has 
nothing to do with what it used to be before June 2023.