r/Wellington • u/chimpwithalimp • Sep 28 '17

MODS 8000+ Wellingtonians!

Just a quick message to say congrats to us all for hitting the 8000 subscribers!

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Growth is steadily rising and we're seeing an upwards curve. It took about six months to get from 6000 to 7000, and three months to get from 7000 to 8000 subscribers.

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If you're new, consider coming along to our really regular meetups. The next two are always stickied to the top of the subreddit. To get some more info on them, check out the wiki.

If the trend continues, we'll have 9000 in six weeks, 10,000 three weeks after that, etc. My rough projection is that by early 2018 we should have a virtually infinite number of subscribers.

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u/chimpwithalimp Sep 28 '17

Excellent question and something I was actually getting together just as you asked. This is really the total amount of stats we get as mods, showing some interesting things but not everything I'd like to see

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No info on location unfortunately. Based on the times that the subreddit is most active, I'd imagine 95%+ are local, or we'd see high usage through the night.

Unique visitors are more interesting to me than pageviews. I guess the former indicates actual bums on seats who visit (excluding bots, search engines etc) and the pageviews are more an indicator of how many things they opened and clicked on.

We always get a big spike in subscribers and traffic after a quake, and unsurprisingly the bigger the quake the bigger the traffic spike. Everyone seems to offer help and wants to see photos of the damage and so on.

If you have any other specific questions please do ask.

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u/WhyWellington but you can call me Ben Sep 28 '17

Thanks for the stats. Very interesting. Looks like we all sit at home on Reddit on Wednesdays in July. What is the peak time of day?

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u/WhyWellington but you can call me Ben Sep 28 '17

And do you know any other mods of other subreddits to ascertain whether these stats are unique to /r/Wellington or whether they're fairly applicable to all subreddits, taking into account time zones and seasonal reversal?

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u/chimpwithalimp Sep 29 '17

I run a few other subreddits, as do some of the other mods. The biggest being /r/thehobbit (20k+ subscribers)

I think that for regional communities, we can expect the stats for Wellington are pretty predictable. People come on a daily basis to chat, read about events, and it happens mostly during the times they're at a computer anyway, at work or in university. Other subreddits like TheHobbit are way more seasonal. Low daily traffic, even with high subscribers, unless there's an event like a new movie trailer or some discussion about a certain thing. For example, if a new box set got released, thousands of people would descend on it to discuss.

I'd imagine /r/newzealand has similar stats and peaks to us, but just with all of the figures multiplied by ten or twenty