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Alexis Ohanian has talked about what made Reddit successful many times. Steve Huffman is talking about the technical side of things. It doesn't come off as brag

• 0nly1ife 17y ago
  Bragging is the wrong word, but it is the first that came to mind. And I was excited to brag about the size of my app when I first read his article. I just think we spend too much time talking about scaling and not enough time discussing virality.
  • strlen 17y ago
    Scalability stories are generally interesting, as they're about solving problems that out-of-the-box commercial software doesn't. They're interesting to hackers, not all of whom are entrepreneurs. If you'd like to share a story, however, on using statistical techniques to measure and act on virality, doing multi-variate testing, et al that would be very interesting.