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I'm not sure, I'd already left reddit by then. We tried to get him to do an AMA in 2008 but he wasn't interested. :)
How did you get that early traffic? Was it just google traffic? What do you think made people stick in those early days without much happening on the site?
Mostly word of mouth.
> Was it just google traffic?
Google was a good source of traffic, but I seem to recall it being only 10-20% of new users.
> What do you think made people stick in those early days without much happening on the site?
The community and content. Which is hopefully what gets them to stay now. :)
Actual link http://www.redditblog.com/2015/06/happy-10th-birthday-to-us-...
Thanks. URL should be updated for this post to avoid blogspam.
all that matters in reddit history to me is the turning point when Digg botched their v4 design execution and caused a huge exodus to Reddit, who was struggling at the time. Changed everything
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> Reddit, who was struggling at the time. This is totally incorrect, BTW. Our traffic was already double Digg's at that point. Their v4 failure caused a noticeable but small bump in traffic.
Traffic didn't change much, but user behavior definitely did: http://minimaxir.com/img/reddit-statistics/all_score_reddit.... http://minimaxir.com/img/reddit-statistics/all_comments_redd... Source: http://minimaxir.com/2014/12/reddit-statistics/
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Bandwidth have been going down for years. I don't think they release numbers but the community in imgur is pretty active. There's a lot of people browsing imgur directly (they have a voting system, comments...) and know nothing about reddit. They have a lot of direct traffic to compensate for the cheap hotlinking.
Speaking of direct traffic, Imgur will redirect direct links to images posted on social media sites to the ad-filled image page: http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/moved-temporarily/
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Traffic didn't change much, but user behavior definitely did: http://minimaxir.com/img/reddit-statistics/all_score_reddit.... http://minimaxir.com/img/reddit-statistics/all_comments_redd... Source: http://minimaxir.com/2014/12/reddit-statistics/
Yes there was a definite uptick in commenting and submissions, but the overall traffic change (uniques and page views) wasn't huge.
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I'm not sure, I'd already left reddit by then. We tried to get him to do an AMA in 2008 but he wasn't interested. :)
How did you get that early traffic? Was it just google traffic? What do you think made people stick in those early days without much happening on the site?
The first announcement was by Paul Graham to comp.lang.lisp. AFAICT on that first visit, the only active users were the two founders (spez and kn0thing), PG, and spez's girlfriend, along with their sockpuppets. It was pretty boring while it was voting-only, but they kept at it, and once they added comments they got a small but fairly active userbase. The initial users were very technical, usually early-adopter programmers, and it drew heavily out of the Lisp/PL-theory crowd. I think that Reddit's YC batchmates also brought along some users, eg. there were a bunch of Semantic Web folks that presumably knew Aaron Schwartz.
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Yes there was a definite uptick in commenting and submissions, but the overall traffic change (uniques and page views) wasn't huge.
That seems very unusual to have a large uptick in engagement without any corresponding increase in traffic. I'm not sure I understand how the Digg announcement would make existing Reddit users more active.
all that matters in reddit history to me is the turning point when Digg botched their v4 design execution and caused a huge exodus to Reddit, who was struggling at the time. Changed everything
> Reddit, who was struggling at the time. This is totally incorrect, BTW. Our traffic was already double Digg's at that point. Their v4 failure caused a noticeable but small bump in traffic.
And when it comes to uniques, my memory's pretty foggy, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Digg actually had more than we did at that point.
That said, you're absolutely correct that we were far from struggling, except in terms of getting approval from Conde Nast to buy more AWS power, or to hire, or to get any support whatsoever from their ad sales team.
[0] http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/08/28/kevin-rose-resp...
[1] https://github.com/drunken-economist/reddit-10-year-data/blo...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/d8d1f/dear_entire_mai...