At some point this year, Reddit changed the "member count" of subreddits to show the total weekly visitors instead of the actual total member count like it used to, and now the only ways to see the real member count of a sub are either by going into the sub's analytics (mod only), by searching for the sub, or going onto a mod's profile to see it there

This change gives a misleading impression of how many members there are in some subs, as if some bigger subs get posts on the Popular feed then their "member counts" will be inflated due to a large amount of outside visitors who aren't members. A lot of the Top 1% subs probably get this

I think it'd be great if either:

* Users can choose which metric they see for all subreddits
* or Mods can change which metric is displayed for their subreddits

I think the best way to do it would be by making it a toggleable option as opposed to reverting the change completely, as although the weekly visitors doesn't display how many actual members are in the community, it does display the *current popularity* of the sub, and some subs that have been around for years will have a good amount of inactive members over the years

However some users such as myself would rather view how many actual members are in the community as opposed to just how many general visitors (including non-members) it's had over the last week

Let us choose whether the "member count" of a sub shows the total members or weekly visitors