Reddit (YC S05): 1 billion monthly pageviews

Post by thinkalone » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 1:32 AM UTC

ilovecomputers wrote: post #60

spinlock wrote: post #54

I have mixed feelings about this statistic. On the one hand, I get to feel cool because I was into reddit before it got popular. On the other hand, reddit has jumped the shark with all of the awful people that have recently joined to get it to the 1 billion monthly pageview category. But, then again, that's kind of a good thing because I don't visit reddit anymore so I'm a million times more productive than I used to…

Having more people is a blessing and a curse. Same with having a tight nit group of people. With more people, the pro is that there is more activity. With this, you have an effective mechanical turk of some sort since there are so many people to get help from and one of those people can be very useful. The con is that conversations are overloaded, so many try to post one liners to achieve top listing status in a thre…

Post by Joakal » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 3:16 AM UTC

thomasfl wrote: post #49

This proves that it doesn't have to have a negative effect on the page count to open source the code. Reddit source code: http://code.reddit.com/

Post by johnyzee » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 10:57 AM UTC

emmett wrote: post #52

StavrosK wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome? Would you still feel that way if your employees spent all day on reddit?!

I imagine so, if they were productive enough to reach 1 billion page views per month while doing so. What makes you think that their community involvement isn't the reason reddit has thrived while competitors have failed?

Post by Loic » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 1:40 PM UTC

Post by jedberg » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 5:14 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #14

Wow, 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 :).