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Reddit has grown so much under Yishan's stewardship: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reddit http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reddit According to

Reddit has grown so much under Yishan's stewardship: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reddit http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reddit According to the graph, Reddit has tripled in size since SOPA. People could say that Reddit would have grown with or without Yishan, and while that may be true, it ignores how completely easy it is to mess up growth, especially for a site like Reddit.

adamnemecek 12y ago
Is google trends really indicative of growth? Not that I'm contesting that reddit has grown, it most definitely has.
- sillysaurus3 12y ago
  I've always wondered. Alexa has become unusable, and Trends was the only free thing I could find. One datapoint that it works: When I used Google Trends to claim "Reddit seems to have doubled since 2013," no one contradicted that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567833 It seems like all tools are indicating that Reddit is growing like a weed, though. Actually, Reddit is in a pretty unique position. Subreddits mean that pretty much every person on the planet is going to find something interesting, so everyone from 13 year olds to grandmas are participating. I wonder how long Reddit will continue to grow before people start comparing it to Facebook.
  - anonfunction 12y ago
    Interesting comparison between reddit and facebook: https://i.imgur.com/NUkB96v.png https://i.imgur.com/NUkB96v.png Notice facebooks decline.
    - adamnemecek 12y ago
      Anyone have an idea what's the FB bump in 2013?
      - deleted 12y ago
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      - freeall 12y ago
        Interesting. Maybe it's actually around May 2012 and thus is when they public? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Facebook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Face...
      - aquadrop 12y ago
        Probably mobile traffic gradually was taking over and users on mobile searched less for "facebook"?
        adamnemecek 12y ago
        I mean the increase in 2013.

adamnemecek 12y ago

Is google trends really indicative of growth? Not that I'm contesting that reddit has grown, it most definitely has.

sillysaurus3 12y ago
I've always wondered. Alexa has become unusable, and Trends was the only free thing I could find. One datapoint that it works: When I used Google Trends to claim "Reddit seems to have doubled since 2013," no one contradicted that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567833 It seems like all tools are indicating that Reddit is growing like a weed, though. Actually, Reddit is in a pretty unique position. Subreddits mean that pretty much every person on the planet is going to find something interesting, so everyone from 13 year olds to grandmas are participating. I wonder how long Reddit will continue to grow before people start comparing it to Facebook.
- anonfunction 12y ago
  Interesting comparison between reddit and facebook: https://i.imgur.com/NUkB96v.png https://i.imgur.com/NUkB96v.png Notice facebooks decline.
  - adamnemecek 12y ago
    Anyone have an idea what's the FB bump in 2013?
    - deleted 12y ago
      [deleted]
    - freeall 12y ago
      Interesting. Maybe it's actually around May 2012 and thus is when they public? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Facebook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Face...
    - aquadrop 12y ago
      Probably mobile traffic gradually was taking over and users on mobile searched less for "facebook"?
      - adamnemecek 12y ago
        I mean the increase in 2013.