That's a bit unfair to jedberg, who actually runs the site with his operations team of two (one of them a new hire). This article and the comments are putting f

That's a bit unfair to jedberg, who actually runs the site with his operations team of two (one of them a new hire). This article and the comments are putting far too much weight on the developer, as if Reddit is a site that's constantly iterating new features. That's not to downplay his contribution, but: * He was hired in November. * He works on code, and didn't get woken up during the last major downtime until the end (from their post mortem, presumably due to the DB eating itself). The word 'even' in "we *even* woke up spladug" is telling, that indicates to me that he doesn't wake up often. * Reddit is pretty much a done product, and the last features I can think of were meta (Gold comes to mind) He has a positive outlook[1], anyway, which the TechCrunch piece didn't seem to notice. Doing operations for a site the size of Reddit with a staff of 2, on AWS, is far more impressive to me. Keeping an operation like Reddit afloat in front of that many uniques must be a pretty significant challenge. There's not a lot of depth for on-call, so I feel for their sleep. On top of that, jedberg is the sole voice actively fighting for Reddit's reputation in public, since (let's be honest) the exodus looks a little suspect. Watching his comments[2] in the face of a perceivably sinking ship -- not to mention former employees who are saying quite a bit in front of an impressionable user base[3] -- is interesting, to say the least. They're definitely undergoing a challenge, and I'm interested to see how they come out of it. (Aside: Today has apparently been discuss-Reddit day, looking at my threads.) [1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/c1l7i4m?context=1 http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d... [2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/g6d7i/three_former_reddit_employees_ketralnis/c1lagp0 http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/g6d7i/three_form... [3]: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/c1l6ykx http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...