Reddit's not profitable though..
Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]
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Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]
#12Thrilled to finally see this on InfoQ -- already an underappreciated resource for technical talks. What is it about video + slides that appeals so little to people?
The video is 40 minutes long. If this was a blog post it'd take me maybe 5-15 minutes to read/skim.
Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]
#13I am curious how much a Go lang rewrite would make a difference in scaling up.
I laughed. Deft trolling. Bravo.
He forgot building the 2012 Servers outlined in Jeff Atwoods blog post "Building Servers for Fun and Prof... OK, Maybe Just for Fun". Gotta do that for bleeding (profusely) edge power.
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#14Reddit's not profitable though..
If there is one lesson that HN needs to learn, it's that profitable is not the same thing as important.
Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]
#15Reddit's not profitable though..
If there is one lesson that HN needs to learn, it's that profitable is not the same thing as important.
So they are important, but need to live off ramen every day (figuratively). What good does that do to them?
I don't think grandparent should be downvoted, he raises a good point. Tons and tons of people use Reddit, but Reddit has a hard time making a living.
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#16What a horrible website. Made an account to get the mp3. Just to discover that the mp3 download link doesnt work even then. Thank god I used a throwaway email to sign up. Otherwise I would be even more pissed.
http://bugmenot.com/view/infoq.com Bugmenot is great for sites like this.
http://10minutemail.com/
is what i use, much simpler.
Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]
#17Thrilled to finally see this on InfoQ -- already an underappreciated resource for technical talks. What is it about video + slides that appeals so little to people?
Creating a video on youtube and linking to a pdf with the slides is easy enough to do. The value add of having the website procedurally flip slides for me is very, very small.
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#18Reddit's not profitable though..
Reddit has an exceptionally low cost to scale ratio. Where are you getting the information that they're not profitable at this point (I know they weren't in the past)?
Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]
#19Reddit's not profitable though..
Reddit has an exceptionally low cost to scale ratio. Where are you getting the information that they're not profitable at this point (I know they weren't in the past)?
Last time they shared, they were spending ridiculous amounts of money on Amazon ec2 a month. Like ridiculous amounts.
Someday, the money will run out, and they'll have to try and turn a profit.
Their business model is fundamentally bad.
Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]
#20Reddit's not profitable though..
If there is one lesson that HN needs to learn, it's that profitable is not the same thing as important.
Without cash flow, how far can the site go? Someone needs to pay the bandwidth/server bill. Not to mention it costs time to run a site. If you are working full-time at another job (because you aren't bringing any money in), you won't have any time to work on it.
Reddit succeeded largely because the company that bought them is making money elsewhere.