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user-inactivated  ·  2820 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit: Outbound Clicks - Rollout Complete

I went to reddit to see what the scripting looks like. I opened up /r/space; its a fucking graveyard. The highest commented thread is all jokes and yuk yuks. The mega thread has a paltry 400 comments after three days. The recent Soyuz launch has one pitiful thread. The /r/astronomy subreddit is all but dead, no topic with more than 221 comments on the front page. two years ago that place was hopping. There are three major star parties coming up and not a single comment on any of them. One of the biggest trade shows, SCAE and not a single thread. That subreddit has almost 150K subs.

This is the first time I've opened Reddit in, oh, two months? has traffic fallen that much from two years ago?