> infra which can serve significant traffic over petabytes of content with search Search? Reddit search is so bad it’s practically a meme. They only added the

> infra which can serve significant traffic over petabytes of content with search Search? Reddit search is so bad it’s practically a meme. They only added the ability to search within comments (y’know, like 90% of the site) _this year_. https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11dgwzy/whats_up_with_reddit_search_episode_viii_the_last/ https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11dgwzy/whats_up_wi... > they have bootstrapped content volume and communities Do you mean when the founders (including current CEO) posted as a bunch of fake users to create the illusion that it was popular? https://venturebeat.com/social/reddit-fake-users/ https://venturebeat.com/social/reddit-fake-users/ > they have monetization in place which pays for all infra and salaries How is possible if Reddit has never been profitable/reached breakeven? https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/jnkd09c/ https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_... https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve...