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Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#31

Post by emmett »

kacy wrote: post #4

He was employee number one and I think the last remaining link to the founding team (not sure). I've got a lot of respect for him, especially after meeting him in person when I toured the office earlier this year. His commute was over 2 hours each day, and he had to deal with all the scaling issues with amazon almost single-handedly, not to mention the Saturday nights that were devoted to keeping the site up. I wish…

Jedberg was not on the founding team of Reddit. The founding team of reddit was Steve Huffman (spez) and Alexis Ohanian (kn0thing). Jedberg was their first hire after acquisition, though they'd acquired two other team members via merger (Chris Slowe and Aaron Swartz) prior to that.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#32

Post by blhack »

jedberg wrote: post #19
blhack wrote: post #5

IMHO, this is a major, major loss for reddit. Jedberg, I know you read HN -- you were a hugely important part of that community; any time there was about to be a user revolt, it seemed like a red-lettered Jedberg would pop up in the thread to calm everybody down. I don't think you were technically a community manager (were you?) but you did a damn good job at it anyway.

Thank you. That really means a lot to me.

Good, man. You deserve every word of praise that you get, especially for keeping that site running with the team you had (5, was it? And you were the only SA?).

Good luck at whatever it is that you decide to do :)

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#33

Post by scott_s »

wccrawford wrote: post #12
eggbrain wrote: post #9

The biggest question I have is: why are so many people leaving Reddit? Over the past few months, the site has grown continuously yet the people that have been the driving force of the site seem to be leaving just as the site is hitting its peak. What has changed?

Maybe nothing has changed other than the obvious. People who work for small companies tend to do so because they like it. The same goes for those who work for big companies. Reddit is not a small company any more. The massive growth would have brought a lot of internal changes. It doesn't surprise me that people are out seeking what they like again.

Huh? The "massive growth" has been in traffic. I thought they had less than 10 employees.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#34

Post by blhack »

staunch wrote: post #25

From someone that spent years sysadmining very high traffic systems: Well done sir. Well done. Been using Reddit since launch. Somewhat nervous that the new people running Reddit will get overrun by the corporate overlords now that they see the "hockey stick" traffic charts. I can see some bean counter doing the math: Slap 4 teeth whitening ads on every page = 4 ad impressions * 1.2 billion page views = 4.8 billion a…

I've said it before, so I apologize for repeating myself, but it shocks me (shocks!) that reddit doesn't append affiliate IDs to all of the outbound links to amazon that are generated.

I've probably made well over $100 in purchases just in the last few months via links I've seen on reddit. ("Can you recommend a good book on welding/bicycles/iOS dev/etc.")

Hopefully they don't do what you're suggesting, because I think if they did, the users would leave almost immediately (and probably flood HN).

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#35

Post by younata »

jcol wrote: post #28
ivanbernat wrote: post #6

A guy with so much knowledge about running such a huge site probably has hundreds of job offers. Best of luck Jedberg, wish you all the best!

Reddit has quite a few stability/uptime problems. Probably not his fault, but a scary prospect nonetheless. EDIT: Did I get downvoted by someone who thinks Reddit is stable? It clearly isn't and anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming. I guess I'll stop going against the HN hivemind just to keep my account in good standing. This place feels more like Reddit every day.

> This place feels more like Reddit every day.

That's why I downmodded you.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#36

Post by esun »

jcol wrote: post #28
ivanbernat wrote: post #6

A guy with so much knowledge about running such a huge site probably has hundreds of job offers. Best of luck Jedberg, wish you all the best!

Reddit has quite a few stability/uptime problems. Probably not his fault, but a scary prospect nonetheless. EDIT: Did I get downvoted by someone who thinks Reddit is stable? It clearly isn't and anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming. I guess I'll stop going against the HN hivemind just to keep my account in good standing. This place feels more like Reddit every day.

Yeah, just like reddit. Especially posts complaining about downvotes.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#37

Post by sharth »

scott_s wrote: post #33
wccrawford wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe nothing has changed other than the obvious. People who work for small companies tend to do so because they like it. The same goes for those who work for big companies. Reddit is not a small company any more. The massive growth would have brought a lot of internal changes. It doesn't surprise me that people are out seeking what they like again.

Huh? The "massive growth" has been in traffic. I thought they had less than 10 employees.

That's correct. But they were bought by Conde Nast.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#38

Post by patrickyeon »

blhack wrote: post #34
staunch wrote: post #25

From someone that spent years sysadmining very high traffic systems: Well done sir. Well done. Been using Reddit since launch. Somewhat nervous that the new people running Reddit will get overrun by the corporate overlords now that they see the "hockey stick" traffic charts. I can see some bean counter doing the math: Slap 4 teeth whitening ads on every page = 4 ad impressions * 1.2 billion page views = 4.8 billion a…

I've said it before, so I apologize for repeating myself, but it shocks me (shocks!) that reddit doesn't append affiliate IDs to all of the outbound links to amazon that are generated. I've probably made well over $100 in purchases just in the last few months via links I've seen on reddit. ("Can you recommend a good book on welding/bicycles/iOS dev/etc.") Hopefully they don't do what you're suggesting, because I thin…

Last time I saw this suggested, the more-or-less official response was along the lines of "we thought about it, but we'd be unable to convince everyone that those types of links aren't being tampered with (ranking-wise)" from which I inferred that the trust of their community was (is) worth more than that revenue stream.

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#39

Post by zacharycohn »

sharth wrote: post #37
scott_s wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? The "massive growth" has been in traffic. I thought they had less than 10 employees.

That's correct. But they were bought by Conde Nast.

Five years ago. http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/breaking-news-conde-nastwir...

Re: Jedberg leaves reddit

#40

Post by holdenk »

jedberg wrote: post #21
kacy wrote: post #4

He was employee number one and I think the last remaining link to the founding team (not sure). I've got a lot of respect for him, especially after meeting him in person when I toured the office earlier this year. His commute was over 2 hours each day, and he had to deal with all the scaling issues with amazon almost single-handedly, not to mention the Saturday nights that were devoted to keeping the site up. I wish…

First I have to clarify that nothing I did was single handed. I couldn't possibly have done what I did without the support of the awesomeness that was the rest of team reddit. As for hipmunk, I think they already have too much talent, since they have the rest of reddit. :)

You should come swing by the foursquare offices sometime if your bored, I'll get you a fresh pack of bacon if you give me a heads up :)
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