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by ravenstine 1900 days ago
Have anything to back that up? I find it very hard to believe. Even the boomers I know don't ever use it. Is Yahoo popular in some other country?
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oblio 1900 days ago
https://www.alexa.com/topsites

Yahoo.com, rank 12, Reddit.com, rank 19.

I would say that Reddit, despite its popularity, is notoriously mismanaged, so it's actually quite an appropriate comparison. Reddit is just culturally more relevant :-)

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jedberg 1899 days ago
Alexa is a terrible way to compare traffic on websites. Their data is biased towards people who run Windows and are willing to run their toolbar.

I know for sure that it has always massively undercounted reddit traffic for example but I'll bet it is fairly accurate for Yahoo, since "runs Windows and random toolbars" is their target audience.

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oblio 1899 days ago
While I agree with your assessment, some data is better than no data.

Plus my main point was that Yahoo is still a huge site. Maybe not in our circles, but a lot of people use it.

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markdown 1900 days ago
> I would say that Reddit, despite its popularity, is notoriously mismanaged

That's what an MBA would say.

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