Or: Why you should not put things like usernames at the top level of your domain. sheesh...
reddit.com/r/subreddit
reddit.com/user/my_user_name (Why not u? I don't know.)
Pretty straight forward. There are also ones like subreddit statistics and they're all... after the name. reddit.com/r/subreddit/about/traffic
(Note: Public viewable stats are only turned on if the mods turn it on.)[edit] Wait. Reddit removed user access site-wide to those pages? Morons. Well, the URL point still stands.
reddit.com/u/foo
does work, but it just redirects to reddit.com/user/foo