[BigglesB]

Also quite curious about this. Subjectively it certainly hasn’t felt like “the front page of the internet” to me for quite a long time, but suspect that’s just me getting old as well as a reduced tolerance for enshitification. I was always more of a lurker but used to check it multiple times per day & considered it a great source of amusement, up-to-date news, information & opinions on a whole host of topics… Over time though, the more features they added, the less usable the site felt, (even verging on anti-user at times). Combined with feeling like I was getting less value out of the content & it just stopped being a place I’d regularly go to, then eventually a place I’d actively avoid. For a while, I came back after discovering “teddit.net” but to a much lesser degree & now that doesn’t work any more of course. Then eventually, last week I needed to do some user research for a new game & was prompted to go looking for relevant subreddits, but most of the ones I found all seemed really dead? To be fair, I was focusing on a particular niche (and it’s possible that the niche itself is less popular now too) but it felt like in the past those sorts of places would have been busier… Of course this is all totally subjective. Was a strange experience though, not quite sure how to describe it… like revisiting a once favourite town but finding the streets empty, all the shops replaced by generic chains & all you old friends having moved out long ago?