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Reddit is no longer showing up as a referrer on WordPress.com

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Participants Maria Reyes4jadetrucker43Nicholas Kingnortherncyclist2Richard Kelly7
Maria Reyes4 Maria Reyes4 MemberOP
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#1 ·
Lately, Reddit isn't showing up as a referrer on my WordPress site anymore.

I'm wondering if there was some new setting implemented over at Reddit to block the referral data—if so, why? Or is this just some change on the WordPress end?

Thanks in advance for any insight 🙂
Maria Reyes4 Maria Reyes4 MemberOP
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#2 ·
There’s no answer because:
- nobody actually understands what I'm talking about?
- you get it—you just have no clue what really went down?
- you follow me perfectly—it’s just classified information?
- Saturn is in retrograde in my seventh house?
jadetrucker43 jadetrucker43 Active Member
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#3 ·
Who exactly are you trying to reach here? 🤔 As just a regular moderator, I’m honestly a bit lost on what you're aiming for. 🙂 If you're looking to get in touch with the admins, your best bet is to shoot an email to the admin team over at Reddit or just send a PM to one of them—maybe someone like Nici.
Maria Reyes4 Maria Reyes4 MemberOP
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#4 ·
I’m throwing this question out to anyone who might actually have an answer—even just a regular user on Reddit, if they happen to know 😁
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There's no point in sending this via DM since it isn't private—truth be told, the answer would benefit anyone running a WordPress account who uses the forum for advertising in one way or another.

As a moderator, could you ask one of the other mods or the admins to step in—or perhaps move this thread to a different sub-section—if this isn't the right place for it?
Nicholas King Nicholas King Regular
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#5 ·
jadetrucker43 said:It seems like you might have cut off your thought there—or maybe you were just testing the connection? If you had something specific you wanted to discuss or a particular topic you wanted my take on, please, go ahead and lay it out. I'm ready when you are. Are you actually directing your question toward me? 🤔

Is there anyone specific I should be addressing this question to regarding the PDF titled...Reddit I suppose I should probably start by saying that I’m looking for some sort of... well, let's call it "guidance." I've been spending quite a bit of my time lately navigating the various corners of Reddit—trying to make sense of everything—and I find myself stuck. It’s one of those situations where you know there's a solution out there somewhere, but finding the right thread or the right person to ask feels like an impossible task. I’ve been attempting to troubleshoot some issues regarding my WordPress account—nothing too catastrophic, mind you, just some persistent technical hiccups—but I feel like I'm spinning my wheels. I've even tried poking around the moderator corner to see if there were any specific guidelines I might have missed, but it hasn't really yielded much. If anyone has experience dealing with similar headaches, or perhaps knows a way to better utilize Google Analytics to track what's actually going wrong, I would be immensely grateful for the insight. I guess I'm just looking for some actual help. Any advice? 😕
As a regular, low-level moderator—just one of those guys trying to keep things running behind the scenes—I have to say, I find the whole thing completely baffling. 🙂

There’s a link to my blog in my signature—and there's one in hers, too. Well, in her signature, not mine. I mean, in mine, it goes to my site, and in hers, it goes to hers. I guess I'm getting a bit tongue-tied here... I know, I know, I've made a bit of a mess of that sentence.

Not too long ago—if I recall correctly—when someone would click a link within my post (specifically in that one thread, you know the one, number X, under topic Y), the analytics would actually show exactly where that visitor originated. It’s how things usually work for any link posted on a website or even when search engines crawl through them; the referral data just flows right into the dashboard.

It’s not exactly a matter of life and death, I suppose—but it really is. It's just a joke. It’s actually pretty interesting to see when a ton of people all click on the same link within a single post—though, I guess, for me, it was always a bit of a thrill seeing a massive spike in clicks on my blog whenever someone from a subreddit would drop a link... selected Posted in the moderator corner 😬.

For a few days now, I haven’t been seeing any click data coming in from Reddit. Since everything else seems to be tracking perfectly fine—which is a bit of a relief, I suppose—it stands to reason that there might be an issue on Reddit's end. It feels like the most logical conclusion, anyway. So, I figured I’d just ask—rather politely, mind you—if anything has actually happened behind the scenes over there? And if something did go sideways, I’m curious to know what exactly went wrong and why.

Why on earth would anyone try to handle stuff like this through private messages? I mean, personally, I don't see the point—it just seems like a waste of time. To an ordinary little forum regular. It’s just not clear—honestly, I’m struggling to follow the logic here.
Maria Reyes4 Maria Reyes4 MemberOP
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#6 ·
Need some help here. 🙂
northerncyclist2 northerncyclist2 Active Member
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#7 ·
If I’m following this correctly, things like referrals and all those other stats on WordPress are handled through Google Analytics. I guess I don't really see how the forum has anything to do with that 🤔
Maria Reyes4 Maria Reyes4 MemberOP
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joined Nov 2012
#8 ·
The forum might be blocking Reddit referrals from showing up in the stats—I can't tell if that's actually what's happening or if it's something else entirely, so I'm asking. I don't see any reason why Google or WordPress would suddenly stop tracking Reddit referrals unless the site admins specifically requested it, assuming everything was working fine until now.
jadetrucker43 jadetrucker43 Active Member
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#9 ·
Nicholas King said:...

Well, that clears things up. Thanks for that. 🙂

I'll go ahead and pass this "problem" along.
Maria Reyes4 Maria Reyes4 MemberOP
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#10 ·
jadetrucker43 said:Well explained. Thanks. 🙂

Passing this "problem" up the chain.

Thanks 👋
I'd be thrilled if you could bring that option back—assuming it wasn't removed by mistake. 😬
jadetrucker43 jadetrucker43 Active Member
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#11 ·
Nothing has actually changed on the Reddit side of things when it comes to how we mention WordPress.
Maria Reyes4 Maria Reyes4 MemberOP
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joined Nov 2012
#12 ·
😢

Thanks anyway.—not that it matters much.

Dear Mr. WordPress...
Maria Reyes4 Maria Reyes4 MemberOP
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#13 ·
The WordPress guy claimed he was clueless—suggested I reach out to Akismet directly since their filter might have flagged Reddit as spam. So, I contacted Akismet.

Reddit had been caught in Akismet's spam filter.

Not anymore. 👋 🎉🙂

edit: still broken 🙂

They’re just messing with me. 😢
Maria Reyes4 Maria Reyes4 MemberOP
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joined Nov 2012
#14 ·
I’d say it finally works after a bit of coughing—though I won't go so far as to swear by 🙂
.

It works.
Richard Kelly7 Richard Kelly7 Member
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joined Mar 2019
#15 ·
Whatever, who cares... it’s basically constant anyway—one minute it’s a 504 Gateway Timeout, the next it's something else... this forum has been a total dumpster fire for a long time now...
Maria Reyes4 Maria Reyes4 MemberOP
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#16 ·
Richard Kelly7 said:Honestly, who cares

Me.

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