So the user base is not actually growing. The people who were reading old.reddit without an account had to sign up now. But that was a one-time bump in registered accounts. It does not necessarily mean that the user base is increasing.
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LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They recently started requiring logins, especially for old.reddit
regdog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
verifytheposter@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
Don’t they always?
zikzak025@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No, it used to be possible to browse the site without an account.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And that is the only reason the userbase is rising, and the user base rising is the only reason they started requiring accounts to view the site.
Numbers must go up.