I created a hubski account nearly 9 years ago. In those 9 years, I've logged in less than a dozen times. My perspective is more from a new and/or low retention user.

- There's no mobile site. I probably login to reddit on my computer once every two months and it's only to post a massive wall of text. Otherwise, I'm on it probably 3 hours a day on my smartphone. I hate it. Most people use their phone for news, so why not have a dedicated app? I would be on that shit nonstop.

- I've met more hubski users IRL than I have reddit users (that I know of). I like the community aspect of this site, but as a non-full time user, I can tell that everyone seems to know each other - even if it's only from past comment interaction. Hubski is in a weird limbo. It's trapped between a social media site where I can chat with friends and link a face and personality to their opinion; and reddit where there's no face or personality whatsoever - just comments (mainly from Russian bots).

With hubski, you get the sort of personal emotion, but lack of a profile. No photo, no real name, location, etc. Being in this anonymity middle ground is a bit confusing to new users. It's like walking into a party where you only know one person and you try to have a conversation, but everyone clearly has some inside jokes. You just feel awkward and don't want to stick around.

- Small user base leads to not a lot of niche subjects. I like baseball and golf. Sadly, I'm stuck with reddit if I want to engage in chats with people on these subjects. This is something that won't really change without a massive increase in users though.