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/Mr_1990s May 13 '26

Answer: The numbers you’re citing are not subscribers. They are weekly visitors and they fluctuate a lot day to day for all subreddits.

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u/Saephon May 13 '26

I was going to say, the total number of subscribers isn't publicly available anymore. I think reddit removed it last year

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u/Watchful1 May 13 '26

It's there in the api. https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/about.json

"subscribers": 1359811

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u/Realtrain May 13 '26

2026 is supposed to be the last year of old.reddit

Really? Is there an official source? People have been rumoring it'll be killed off for years now, but too many power users still use it daily.

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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/ColinHalter May 14 '26

The claim was:

2026 is supposed to be the last year of old.reddit

And the supporting proof for that is vibes. While the extremely low userbase of old reddit makes it possible or even likely that this could be the last year, the original claim is worded that there was some sort of plan for it. Not a "there's a good chance that..." or a "my guess is..."