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Comment by mnutt | Hacker News Reader

If a company has significant users, ops/site reliability is one area where I’d be hesitant to say they’re overfunding, especially from the outside. Especially at reddit’s growth trajectory, if you’re sitting still, you’re probably falling behind.

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I'm genuinely curious about their growth trajectory lately, meaning the last 6 months to one year, i.e. if they continued on their almost exponential upward trajectory that has been manifest in the last 4-5 years. Either way, I really do think that them blowing up the redesign is an existential threat for them, and I say that as a reddit user active on that site since before the digg blowout and following exodus.

There are some interesting stats/details listed at https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9x577m/were_reddi... and https://redditblog.com/2018/12/04/reddit-year-in-review-2018...

Pretty interesting, thanks! Comparing it to the data from 2017 [1] it looks like a ~30% increase in the number of comments (from 900 million to 1.2 billion), while unfortunately the number of votes/upvotes provided for the two periods is not consistent: they mentioned 12 billion upvotes for 2017 and 27 billion votes (which presumably included downvotes) for 2018. All in all not bad, let's see what 2019 will bring to them.

[1] https://redditblog.com/2017/12/19/the-best-of-reddit-in-2017...

Definitely, I hate the redesign and use old.reddit.com when I do visit, but what their ops team does on the backend to scale the site seems tangential to that.

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