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<blockquote data-quote="doctorhook" data-source="post: 8777441" data-attributes="member: 58401"><p>So for whatever this metric is worth, several times I’ve compared the number of users online at the two main Pathfinder subreddits (r/Pathfinder and r/Pathfinder2e). Usually the PF2e sub has about 60-80% more users online than the other Pathfinder sub, where PF1e content is still common.</p><p></p><p>Right now, r/Pathfinder has 330 users online, while r/Pathfinder2e has 551 users online. For comparison, the main 5E subreddit, r/dndnext, currently has 2.1k users online. (It’s also nighttime on a weekday in North America, so those numbers are all lower than during the day.)</p><p></p><p>My logic is that Reddit catches a very broad range of internet users, and since Redditors choose which subs they follow, it represents a fairly reliable cross-section of the total community in each hobby. By looking at the number of subscribers currently online, I believe I’m seeing the number of people currently viewing that content.</p><p></p><p>(Contrast with the total number of subscribers, for which PF1e sub dominates—125k subscribers vs PF2e’s 50k. However, the PF1e sub has been around for many more years, and I have no way to know how many of their subscribers are still active accounts. So I don’t think total subscribers is a valid metric.)</p><p></p><p>A couple caveats: 1) r/Pathfinder <em>does</em> include some PF2e content, whereas the reverse isn’t usually true. This skews the numbers a bit further in favour of PF2e. 2) I’m not sure if a subscriber to both subreddits is counted as online in both, or perhaps only in the sun they’re looking at. Not sure of the implications here.</p><p></p><p>Conclusion: PF1e still has a sizeable following, but significantly smaller than PF2e, and both are still dwarfed by 5E.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorhook, post: 8777441, member: 58401"] So for whatever this metric is worth, several times I’ve compared the number of users online at the two main Pathfinder subreddits (r/Pathfinder and r/Pathfinder2e). Usually the PF2e sub has about 60-80% more users online than the other Pathfinder sub, where PF1e content is still common. Right now, r/Pathfinder has 330 users online, while r/Pathfinder2e has 551 users online. For comparison, the main 5E subreddit, r/dndnext, currently has 2.1k users online. (It’s also nighttime on a weekday in North America, so those numbers are all lower than during the day.) My logic is that Reddit catches a very broad range of internet users, and since Redditors choose which subs they follow, it represents a fairly reliable cross-section of the total community in each hobby. By looking at the number of subscribers currently online, I believe I’m seeing the number of people currently viewing that content. (Contrast with the total number of subscribers, for which PF1e sub dominates—125k subscribers vs PF2e’s 50k. However, the PF1e sub has been around for many more years, and I have no way to know how many of their subscribers are still active accounts. So I don’t think total subscribers is a valid metric.) A couple caveats: 1) r/Pathfinder [I]does[/I] include some PF2e content, whereas the reverse isn’t usually true. This skews the numbers a bit further in favour of PF2e. 2) I’m not sure if a subscriber to both subreddits is counted as online in both, or perhaps only in the sun they’re looking at. Not sure of the implications here. Conclusion: PF1e still has a sizeable following, but significantly smaller than PF2e, and both are still dwarfed by 5E. [/QUOTE]
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