In light of the threads lately about how well StackOverflow does with their MS stack, I'm wondering how their traffic compares to Reddit, which runs on OSS/Python + Java.
Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews
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#12this is really impressive, especially considering that they have just a couple of engineers
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#13What does that translate to in ad revenues?
This is clearly simplified, but nevertheless... [deleted] [edit] Info from comments demonstrates these results, though simplified, to be incredibly optimistic. Assuming a CPM of $1.00 and taking into account the ratio of paid advertisement to Reddit advertisement, the Monthly Revenue number would dip significantly to $100,000.
No site like Reddit can fill 1 billion impressions at $2 eCPM. Closer to $0.25 I'd bet.
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#14Wow, good job, Team Reddit!
Since I think you guy still read HN: Something you all seem to do very, very well is interact with your users. Almost every day I'll see somebody [usually jedberg] show up in a thread answering a question, or responding to something, or even just saying hello.
Like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/fdyyf/reddit_billions_...
That's awesome :).
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#16For a co. that is handled by just a few developers, this is just phenomenal. Hats off to the team! :)
Reddit is an amazing site and an amazing community - there are a lot more factors that go into its success.
However, I think quality has suffered slightly recently based on the amount of content that is FFUU comics and just plain pics.
While I have been a user for 4+ years, and I love the site to death - there are some improvements in the UX tat could be made -- the most specific would be to allow further tags of images/image types. Since a fair chunk of the % of content is now images, I would be love to be able to unsub from specific image types.
E.g. FFUU/rage based comics, regardless of their content/message, I just personally dont prefer them. Cute pics, etc...
Reddit is king of my online content experience, but I am starting to need further granular control that is better that just /r/subreddits.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is clearly simplified, but nevertheless... [deleted] [edit] Info from comments demonstrates these results, though simplified, to be incredibly optimistic. Assuming a CPM of $1.00 and taking into account the ratio of paid advertisement to Reddit advertisement, the Monthly Revenue number would dip significantly to $100,000.
It seems that CPMs are more in the $0.50-1.00 range[1]. Which still translates into a very nice chunk of change and that's not counting other initiatives such as reddit gold. [1] http://www.winningtheweb.com/reddit-homepage-advertising-res...
I have no idea but judging from the amount of real ads I see on Reddit, I'd guess they make way more money from Gold than from display ads at the moment.
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#18If the reddit team had had (errr... how's my use of English past tense?) the $150K deal, they might have lasted this long on just that. They probably would not have sold to Conde Nast when they did.
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#19In light of the threads lately about how well StackOverflow does with their MS stack, I'm wondering how their traffic compares to Reddit, which runs on OSS/Python + Java.
According to the Quora below they're running on 112 Amazon EC2 instances.
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#20If the reddit team had had (errr... how's my use of English past tense?) the $150K deal, they might have lasted this long on just that. They probably would not have sold to Conde Nast when they did.
Grammatically it's just fine, although I might have used "had received" or something instead to make quick reading a little easier.