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Reddit Hits 1.2B Monthly Pageviews, More Than Doubles Its Engineering Staff
- riledhel 15y agoGreat to see they're still hard.
- politician 15y agoPhrasing.
- riledhel 15y agomeh... it was "working hard"... anyway...
- dstein 15y agoI wonder what the guys who founded and sold Reddit must be thinking of the site's continued success. Ever since Digg went down Reddit seems to have completely taken over the social news category.
- vidar 15y agoI am pretty sure they are thrilled. They are doing great for themselves with Hipmunk.
- kn0thing 15y agoI'm so thrilled for reddit! And yes, hipmunk has been going quite well :) thanks.
- mitchty 15y agoI totally forgot who made that video on youtube that showed the creation process of the hipmunk logo, but tell them to do more videos like it. I don't have a design bone in my body but found it awesome to watch someone go through the process.
- kn0thing 15y agoThank you! Yes, that one was me. I asked our designer (he does all of our infographics and random designwork for me) to do a few of his own and it was a blast to watch a real artist at work: http://www.youtube.com/thehipmunk#p/u http://www.youtube.com/thehipmunk#p/u (He's the other 2 "making of" videos not about the hotels logo)
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- nametoremember 15y agoIs Hipmunk profitable?
- citricsquid 15y agoThis story is from 3 months ago, it's changed a lot since. As a user of reddit, I suspect that the page views have risen even more. edit: wait the URL just changed again, it was pointing to a story that was listed as being from March and all the comments were from March too, how strange? Also straight from the source: http://blog.reddit.com/2011/06/reddit-levels-up-with-three-new.html http://blog.reddit.com/2011/06/reddit-levels-up-with-three-n...
- whiletruefork 15y agohttps://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?#siteDetails?identifier=reddit.com https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?#site... Daily UV's are growing pretty well. Interesting to see the age skews higher then I would have assumed.
- staunch 15y agoNon-blog spam: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2658592 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2658592
- Gotperl 15y agoLaw of small numbers- way to exploit that for a headline
- napierzaza 15y agoGreat that it's a success. But since it's a pool of cheap memes I'm not about to unblock it on my computer's hosts file.
- phlux 15y agoReddit has a different use and value than, say, HN does.
- muppetman 15y agoNo, it's not. Sure _by default_ the frontpage is full of rubbish, but if you spend 10 minutes looking you will find a trove of useful stories and information about whatever you're interested in. As an example, my favourite Australian radio station (Triple J) has a great subreddit where things relating to music etc is discussed. Not a meme in sight. You can tune your frontpage as you please, so it's easy to have a great experience with reddit. But if you've got it in your hosts file (why?) you must really hate it, so I'm probably wasting words. But your post as akin to saying Hacker News is just full of "I'm a startup!" posts, which it's not.
- jshen 15y ago" so it's easy to have a great experience with reddit." I've tuned it, more than once, and it's still not a great experience. Maybe if I tried harder I could get it there, but it's certainly not easy. At this point the only way to make it better is to turn off sub reddits about topics I am interested in, but that misses the point doesn't it?
- muppetman 15y agoInteresting, this isn't my experience. Yes, turning off the subreddits you're interested defeats the purpose of Reddit. What subreddits do you find this with out of interest?
- jshen 15y agoI haven't kept track, but let me clarify a bit. The links are pretty good on my homepage, it's the comments that usually degenerate into nonsense. I also get tired of all the stupid pics that get voted up to the top.
- da5e 15y agoPerhaps this is a naive (or dumb) question, but what will all those new engineers do? Reddit is doing what it has always done why does just scaling up require so many more engineers?
- jemka 15y agoThere is a law of diminished returns at some point in scaling websites. A while ago Reddit hit a scale where a move to Amazon's services seemed like the right thing to do. At that time the argument was solid. Since then the site has outgrown Amazon's services at Reddit's price points. Spinning up new services has an extremely low ROI. The preverbial wheel of scalling solutions needs to be re-invented, yet again. Not all services are created equal so no one is truly re-inventing anything, just applying unique solutions to unique problems. That takes manpower. Heck just to move from Amazon to a dedicated will take a team larger than they had a month ago. That's right from the horses mouth. Don't have the energy to fish out the link, though.
- raldi 15y agoAs a former reddit engineer, I confirm everything you say. Note: Please don't edit your comment to make me look foolish. :)
- yuhong 15y agoI still remember the discussions. It inspired this Ask HN submitted by me, for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358079 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358079
- zedpm 15y agoIn addition to adding new features (many of which are available as previews for Reddit Gold subscribers), the degree to which Reddit must scale means that they can't simply spin up a dozen new servers and call it a day. Due to issues they've encountered on Amazon's infrastructure (http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/why-reddit-was-down-for-6-of-last-24.html http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/why-reddit-was-down-for-6-of-...) they do indeed require engineering hours to design and implement more robust and scalable approaches to providing their service.
- cincinnatus 15y agoI've recently passed the 5 year mark on Reddit and watched my on-site time drop to minutes a week over the last few months. Not sure why, unlike some people who complain, and have been there less time, the quality of submissions and comments is not really any worse than it has ever been. But then it has always just been a time wasting diversion. It did manage to kill my use of slashdot 5 years back. Maybe my Reddit time has been killed by techmeme/river.
- TruthElixirX 15y agoI've been on reddit since 2007 under various names. I think the quality has declined quite a bit if you view /r/all, the front page everyone sees by default. Its really bad. Individual subreddits are pretty good still though. /r/netsec, sysadmin, wearethemusicmakers, gamernews, philosophyofscience, etc. Smaller ones are still pretty quality.
- reinhardt 15y agoLies, damned lies, and linkbaits. Sensationalist title: "Reddit more than doubles its engineering staff!!1!" Actual event: Reddit hires three new programmers.
- rjvir 15y agoThe article is definitely sensationalist and linkbait, but the title is not a lie. However misleading it is, Reddit doubling its engineering staff is equivalent to hiring three new programmers.
- guywithabike 15y agoI think the point of the title is combining two pieces of interesting information: A) Reddit has come a hell of a long way with a tiny engineering team and, B) Reddit has hired 3 new engineers.
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