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I interviewed with reddit over 10 years ago and the company had less than 25 people working out of co-working spaces but still maintained uptime and managed to get by just fine. This was before they had advertising, no trust/safety team, no official app, etc.

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They definitely used to have more uptime issues, so that’s an improvement. Not sure it really needed two orders of magnitude of employees, but still.

10 years ago reddit was certainly not maintaining uptime.

Not sure if this is 100% accurate, but looks fine to me - https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=40

Regardless, it seems like they managed quite okay with 65x less staff. I guess doing image/video hosting and running a mobile app drastically increased their cloud cost.

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