Hi everyone,
It is almost the end of 2025, which brought quite a few important changes to the entire subreddit. New ideas, such as the Travelers Only Mode have been introduced. Many new members have joined both the sub and the mod team, following the sudden stepping down of some of the most active mods.
We have also gotten quite a bit of feedback from all of you, on Meta posts and other forms such as modmail or announcement posts. However, the last time the community has run such a big survey like this was when it hit 1 million members. Today, the sub has over 14 million members, and with these changes in approaches to modding, we have decided to run a community-wide survey like this, especially since it is the end of the year.
The survey should not take longer than 5 minutes, but still covers all the basics of how the sub runs at the moment. It would really help us understand what we need to do to make the sub a better place, as us simply deciding everything as the mod team is not enough. Thank you for your understanding and Merry ( Early ) Christmas!
This is the link to the survey. You will be able to submit responses until December 25.
Please feel free to leave ideas and other feedback in the comments below as well to run it by the community! I'm sure many of you have some good ideas so it would be beneficial to share them publicly as well.
We'll take all public and private feedback into consideration for how we moderate and curate content on this sub going forward.
For the purposes of understanding the sub usage, is there a better metric that shows current participation? I expect many of that 14 million membership are people who come in once for their trip and then stop participating (unlike, for example, AskReddit, which likely gets somewhat more long term participation).
Personally if I'm only asking a question or two, I don't subscribe to a sub. In the past 30 days we have a ballpark average of about 400k daily unique visitors and > 20 million page views
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What subs do you mean? For smaller subs with very repetitive posts that is fairly understandable. We tried to update our Weekly Destination threads but sadly it barely brought any results as people just don’t see Megathreads/Stickied Posts anymore.
Thanks for listening and giving members an option to express how they feel about the forum.
When will results of the survey be announced?
We will review them on the final week before New Year and there should be an announcement post really early 2026. Thanks for filling it out!