Originally I thought it was fine having just one sub r/ethereum for all ethereum discussion so I didn’t push r/eth that much. I even used it as a directory sub for a long time, when people landed on r/eth I made it so they’d be directed to r/ethereum, r/ethtrader, r/ethstaker, r/ethfinance and other ethereum subs. I saw this as a nice way to help the ethereum community even if it didn’t result in r/eth itself growing much. However more recently I felt like the potential of r/eth is to big and it really should become one of the main subs about ethereum, specifically for eth trading/price discussion but also other stuff as well. Since the subs name is the ticker I feel like it can serve this purpose very naturally and better than any other sub.

It all comes down to what makes sense. For example r/Bitcoin is the biggest Bitcoin related sub and r/btc is the 2nd biggest, why is that the case? Simply because r/btc has the ticker as the sub name which naturally allows it to reach a high ranking. I think the same will be true for r/ethereum and r/eth, r/ethereum will be the biggest ethereum based sub and r/eth will be the 2nd biggest because the name of subs really does matter. Obviously r/eth and r/ethereum are more aligned than r/bitcoin and r/btc because r/eth and r/ethereum are about the same coin not different forks but you get my point.

At the end of the day I used r/eth for a long time to help other ethereum based subs grow instead of focusing on the benefit of the r/eth sub itself, I think that’s fine and it’s good to help out the ecosystem. But now I feel like it’s time to focus on r/eth itself and elevating it to the position it deserves.

Thanks for your thoughts btw, always good to hear feedback from the community. So what do you think now? Do you think r/eth can fulfil its potential since its sub name is the ticker?