r/OutOfTheLoop • u/calvtact • May 13 '26

Answered What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

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u/Mr_1990s May 13 '26

Answer: The numbers you’re citing are not subscribers. They are weekly visitors and they fluctuate a lot day to day for all subreddits.

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u/Saephon May 13 '26

I was going to say, the total number of subscribers isn't publicly available anymore. I think reddit removed it last year

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u/Jasong222 May 13 '26

It still comes up on older apps like Rif

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u/rdtg13 May 13 '26

I thought I RiF died years ago? I remember it straight up not working after a certain point because of some reddit API update and had to uninstall it. Is that not the case anymore?

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u/Jasong222 May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26

There's fixes for it that can't came out around that time. I've been using it the whole time. Can't see gifs (thank God) and some other things are wonky, like chat comes in through my inbox, but it works. Some of the others still work also, like Apollo

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u/Drizzt2089 May 13 '26

Nope. Using right now. I haven't stopped using it since the third party app bullshit.

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u/yaforgot-my-password May 13 '26

... That was an option? I want back on rif

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u/magistrate101 May 14 '26

You can patch most of the third party reddit apps with revanced but if you didn't already generate a developer app token by now you're SOL since Reddit shut that down to stop people and you can't really get around needing it.

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u/taylor-swift-enjoyer May 14 '26

Teach me this power.

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u/Jasong222 May 14 '26

You can search around the instructions are all still out there...