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Though I'm happy we got top billing in the headline, Reddit wasn't actually impacted directly (though of course many of the sites we linked to were).

At the time, in late 2005, we were writing in (I believe) python 2.3 and had rolled our own web framework because it was otherwise normal behavior to hook straight into wscgi. "wil…

Confirmed, but the time dependent model didn't ask for long. I seem to recall switching to the current model (with slightly different constants) during the switch to python in late…

I too remember it being pretty harrowing at the time (if only because it felt like we were alienating [har] such a large chunk of our community), but in fairness it happened barely…

Point! I think I found it http://www.redditblog.com/2007/08/its-slow-its-unstable-its-... Also just as anemic as the last one. Oh well.

We switched to python about 4 months into the startup and a full year before getting acquired.

Yeah I think that post dates from a time where you still heard people refer to them as "weblogs". Edit: Found it. It was the 14th post on our blog a time, but definitely light on t…

Yup that was the case. Though, I believe it was also a long weekend -- I think it might have been Veteran's day because I remember putting the finishing touches on it around Thanks…

At the time it was "TBNL" ( http://weitz.de/tbnl/ ), which I believe has indeed evolved into Hunchentoot.

Yeah it should be noted that all of the referenced decisions we made around web frameworks in this thread predate django's 1.0 release. I think I was comparing pylons to django 0.9…

A lot of the decisions made in designing web.py were also carried over to tornado's web framework (which not coincidentally is also a web.py). At the time (and I have to admit my m…

At the time that we switched to pylons and decided to punt django, flask didn't exist. I believe it was some time on '07 or '08. I'd check, but I also think it predates our switchi…

ketralnis will likely remember this better, but by my recollection we switched to cassandra after we hit the limit of what we could do with memcachedb: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/…

Fortunately he didn't ask where I spend my time in Chrome.

Thanks for linking those. I would have posted here as well, but I didn't want to break any shameless self promotion etiquette rules, and honestly I feel like I've hit my quota for …

So here's the back story: we're working on migrating the reddit blog off of blogger and have a test environment set up that we were playing around with. We have a semi-private IRC …

> Conde Nast were chumps when they allowed Chris Anderson, high on his own supply, convince them to buy Reddit for its supposed "Long Tail News" value. That's not how it happened. …

Well I guess that's also one way to free up budget. I'll let raldi know his days are numbered.

Thanks. We really hope this will help us more than hurt us in the end. Part of the problem with releasing something like reddit as open source is that it isn't designed around inst…

The choice to use VMWare was nothing personal to VirtualBox; we just happen to already be running VMWare on our dev boxes. (I'm actually downloading VirtualBox now to see if cross-…