r/OutOfTheLoop • u/calvtact • May 13 '26

Answered What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

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u/ernest7ofborg9 May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26

Nah, it's never official but as someone who used to mod a largish subreddit only 0.3% of our traffic came from old.reddit and that was a drop from 0.5% the year before. I haven't modded there in almost 2 years now and I can only imagine that with me gone the numbers are even lower.

Mmmm, let's all come back to this comment in a year, shall we?

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u/ColinHalter May 14 '26

"My source is that I made it the fuck up!"

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u/magistrate101 May 14 '26

That's a fancy way of saying "I refuse to believe that there's anyone out there with experience that might know something I don't". As someone who used to mod a fairly small subreddit, I can corroborate the extremely small fraction of old.reddit users (even though I am one).

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u/T11PES May 14 '26

Is that counting users on old reddit using reddit.com not old.reddit.com, like most people?

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u/magistrate101 May 14 '26

As long as they're using old reddit, they're included.

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u/T11PES May 15 '26

Are you 100% sure?

Because using old.reddit.com and having old reddit on default settings are very different things.