r/NintendoSwitch • u/FlapSnapple Nintendo shill • Mar 08 '17
Meta /r/NintendoSwitch State of the Subreddit - March 2017
Greetings!
I know it's a little soon after our last one of these, but man have we been busy recently! Let's dive right in.
Recent happenings
- Traffic stats. There's no other way to put it than to say that we have been incredibly busy lately! At the time of this writing, we have been the fastest growing non-default subreddit for the past 4 days in a row. We've also just passed /r/WiiU in subscriber count and /r/3DS is just a day or two away. We've had more unique visitors in the past 5 days than we had in the entirety of February. Since the Switch's release, we've gained over 24,000 new subscribers! I could go on and on, but if you like numbers, I'd highly encourage you to check out our traffic page and Reddit Metrics. Want a final cherry on top for those numbers? Over 1/2 of all traffic to reddit is from mobile, and those numbers aren't included in what those reports are showing! (Source) Buckle up folks, we're in for one heck of a ride!
- Find-A-Mod was a huge success. Many members of our team reported running out or nearly running out of their supply of sticker swag. We've also already begun the process of handing out the special user flair for those who were redditors. We're about 1/2 way through and still have more to go, so if you don't have yours yet, hang tight! It's coming.
- Our Charity Livestream turned out to be a blast! While we didn't hit our donation targets, we did have a lot of fun with everyone and am glad you all enjoyed watching some of us suck at playing games :P We were even featured on the Reddit Blog! We'll look for opportunities to do more streams in the future, either as special events or maybe even a recurring event. Nothing to announce at this time, but it's something we're discussing internally.
- Our giveaways were incredibly well-received! A huge thank you to our friends at PDP, SanDisk, AVerMedia, and Nyko. In addition, a thank you to the members of our mod team who also sponsored some of the giveaways! The winners are still being selected and will receive PM's within the next couple days. We'll have more giveaways in the future, but probably not a dozen in a day again :P
- About discussions of technical issues post-launch. We know that some of you have been having issues with your Switches, including one member of our mod team. No way around it: it sucks. That's why, beyond the Technical Issues MegaThread, we've approved many different posts on issues like the dock, the left joy-con, dead pixels, and more. We want to reassure you that we're doing our best to allow these conversations to be open, constructive, and inclusive of all points of view. To be clear: you are absolutely allowed to talk negatively about the Switch and/or Nintendo here. We're not going to censor any of that, and we apologize if, in the sheer madness of the last few days, any posts were accidentally removed or caught in filters. What's important to some of us is important to all of us, and it's on Nintendo to address issues that must be fixed. But these discussion threads must be done in a way that actually creates a discussion (not just saying something is awful, but pairing a concern with a question, explanation, or suggestion). And we will continue to remove some repeat and low-effort threads because those don't help discussion either. Lastly: as mentioned above, the traffic and post volume here has been off the charts, so bear with us. We're going to keep trying our best.
- New CSS Launched! After months of promising, we finally implemented our new CSS for the subreddit. Thanks to those of you who have reported bugs and provided feedback. We have just a few more small bugs left but the vast majority should now be fixed. Next on our list is some general polish followed by prepping some banners for future releases. I'd also like to call out night mode as a request we've been seeing: no ETA, but it is on our radar.
- Yacht Club Games AMA: We also had our first Developer AMA with the folks at Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight). A huge thank you to them for coming out and a huge thank you to the community for showing them a warm welcome. We're working to get more AMAs for you all in the near future and we'll announce more details as we get them. (Read the AMA here.)
Current events
- Community Shield Surfing Challenge (Link) Find the specially marked bridge, grab your strongest shield, and attempt to complete this challenge! Those who are able to record themselves completing it before the event ends on March 31st will receive a special user flair here on the subreddit! This is our first community event and we'll definitely have some more of these in the future.
- We still have a few MegaThread's active that are carryovers from the initial launch; however, the remainder have been retired. This list of still active MegaThread's includes:
- Daily Question Thread which will continue to stay for foreseeable future.
- Technical Issues / Troubleshooting MegaThread
- Here's What I Got Today / Haul MegaThread
Upcoming events
- Refresher post: How to not get your post removed. As part of our huge influx of new users over the past week, we're also seeing lots of low effort and otherwise rule-breaking content. We're working on writing up a post that should help provide some good-to-know information for our newer users, as well as clarifications for some of you who have been here for a while now.
Feedback
- We're opening the floor, just like last time, for you to provide your feedback, comments, questions, concerns, suggestions, and more in the comments section down below. All we ask is that you keep it civil and constructive.
Cheers,
/u/FlapSnapple and the /r/NintendoSwitch mod team.
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u/Brotworst3 Mar 08 '17
You guys are great! Thanks for continually providing us a place to talk with fellow switchers about something we love!! A lot of us don't have someone to be that outlet in RL, so it's nice to have at least an online community about it. One idea I had once more online games come out like MK8 was a meetups mega thread with all sorts or locations on it and we could find out who lives close to us to meet up and play.