""Member counts don't tell the whole story. In most cases, Redditors don't need to be a member of a community to post or comment, which means member totals have never fully reflected true engagement," Reddit said in its announcement. "By emphasizing active participation over passive membership, we're continuing to highlight what makes Reddit unique: real people engaging in real conversations.""
"This update is part of Reddit's goal to improve moderation on the platform, because allowing individuals to moderate an unlimited number of large communities isn't "sustainable," according to Reddit. The new visitor counts will be used to limit how many busy subreddits each moderator can oversee, restricting them to a maximum of five communities with over 100k visitors. Reddit says that communities with fewer than 100k visitors "won't count toward this limit," and that the change will only impact 0.1 percent of active mods."
Visible subreddit member counts were removed and replaced by two metrics: a seven-day visitor count based on a rolling 28-day average, and a seven-day contributions count that excludes removed posts and comments. The change aims to highlight actual activity rather than passive membership, acknowledging that many users can post without being listed as members and that lurking inflates perceived engagement. The visitor metric will also inform moderator limits, capping oversight at five communities with over 100k visitors while exempting communities under 100k. Moderators can still access subscriber totals via subreddit insights, not visible to regular users.
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