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Oh oh... can we look forward to another wave of reddit leavers after inevitable changes to the site to please investors?
Anyone who didn't leave when old.reddit.com stopped being the default isn't going to leave over any other redesigns. They couldn't possibly be worse.
The fall of Digg didn't happen in one single wave.
Lots of people just want to stay with what they're familiar with, and it takes loss of critical mass of content/interaction before they'll look at the door.
I mean it really was a single wave. V4 or whatever version it was fundamentally changed the way Digg worked in a big way overnight. It wasn't even the same thing anymore. Sure there were some holdovers but it's tough to compare the two like this.
With the exception of third party apps, Reddit still more or less works the same for the average user as it has forever.
Yeah, Digg v4 hit like a shockwave and site traffic plummeted as users immediately flocked to Reddit by the millions. Reddit spent the next week crashing like crazy from the influx of new users and had to temporarily suspend and then limit new user creation and new sub creation for weeks after to handle the strain. It was kind of similar to what happened when everyone rushed over to Lemmy for the first time, but that happened a bit more slowly, over a longer period of time.