Reddit Hits 1.2B Monthly Pageviews, More Than Doubles Its Engineering Staff
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(He's the other 2 "making of" videos not about the hotels logo)
Sensationalist title: "Reddit more than doubles its engineering staff!!1!"
Actual event: Reddit hires three new programmers.
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-n...
Daily UV's are growing pretty well. Interesting to see the age skews higher then I would have assumed.
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.
Individual subreddits are pretty good still though. /r/netsec, sysadmin, wearethemusicmakers, gamernews, philosophyofscience, etc. Smaller ones are still pretty quality.
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.
Note: Please don't edit your comment to make me look foolish. :)
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.
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?
I also get tired of all the stupid pics that get voted up to the top.
That is one of the reasons I love HN. Silly stuff is ignored and downvoted.
Let's say I like video games, and one of those games is Minecraft. If I subscribe to the Minecraft reddit, it seems that about 1/Nth of the posts on my front page will be about Minecraft (where N is the number of subreddits I have).
I'm pretty conservative with subreddits (added linux and apple, removed politics and atheism, that's pretty much it), so suddenly I have a lot of Minecraft.
Some sort of slider would make subreddits for specific games, programming languages, etc. much more appealing to me, so that I could say, "I really only want to see the best Python-specific stories, but I'll take all of the general programming stories".
Agreed. /r/programming used to have discussions much like HN does. But I've had to remove it from any subreddit I have as its just full of random programmish related stuff, barely.
Out of curiosity, what does everyone on HN think of ways to fix the subreddit problem? Its obvious voting doesn't provide any sort of filter, and tagging would likely only end up with the same problem.
Or are we just condemned to constantly have to flock to new sites for good technical discussions of things?
In theory moderators on Reddit should be some sort of quality control, but usually they just say "well if that is what the community wants..." and let the most ridiculous pandering submissions slide.
Someone needs to blend user submitted stories with editors and find where the sweet spot between the two is.
Until the two systems can be blended in an awesome hybrid, then yes, we will continue to flock to new sites as the old ones fall prey to eternal September.