I just found these logs and I wanted to share. Compare this to where we are now (310 million pageviews in the last 30 days, consistently 120+ million pageviews per month even before the election) and wow - we made the greatest escape from Big Tech. The Donald was in a very bad state for quite some time on Reddit, as the restrictions got tighter and tighter, our traffic was diving. Win has gone far better than our predicted best case scenario. We expected we might be able to retain 30-40% of the subreddit users at best, but instead The Donald is stronger than it has ever been.
It is known that we intend to expand beyond The Donald, and provide for more than just politics. Right now we're letting the election play out, as we would rightfully receive backlash if we diverted attention elsewhere during this period. I know some people aren't happy with the timeframe, but there's been a lot of things to juggle.
Here's the important part: if our expansion from an exclusively political forum to a platform goes as well as our transition from /r/The_Donald to TheDonald.win did - and this will again rely on you all taking part in future communities and sharing the platform with others - then we have an amazing chance at building a true competitor.
I just found these logs and I wanted to share. Compare this to where we are now (310 million pageviews in the last 30 days, consistently 120+ million pageviews per month even before the election) and wow - we made the greatest escape from Big Tech. The Donald was in a very bad state for quite some time on Reddit, as the restrictions got tighter and tighter, our traffic was diving. Win has gone far better than our predicted best case scenario. We expected we might be able to retain 30-40% of the subreddit users at best, but instead The Donald is stronger than it has ever been.
It is known that we intend to expand beyond The Donald, and provide for more than just politics. Right now we're letting the election play out, as we would rightfully receive backlash if we diverted attention elsewhere during this period. I know some people aren't happy with the timeframe, but there's been a lot of things to juggle.
Here's the important part: if our expansion from an exclusively political forum to a platform goes as well as our transition from /r/The_Donald to TheDonald.win did - and this will again rely on you all taking part in future communities and sharing the platform with others - then we have an amazing chance at building a true competitor.
Fuck u/spez. Also thanks u/spez.
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