Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
by austenallred on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:29PM
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I believe Sam Altman about this time last year mentioned that Reddit grows by more users than Hacker News has total every day.
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
by jacquesm on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:15PM
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Assuming those are real accounts and not bots.
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
by ReverseCold on Saturday June 17, 2017 @09:21AM
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Many people also create multiple accounts for various purposes like joke accounts/throwaway accounts/etc.
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
by alt2501 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @07:50AM
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Can you clarify what you mean by submissions from independent blogs? You seem to be saying that the new users are bots or something from media/marketing ? Or am i reading too much iwmto this...
Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
by Alex3917 on Saturday June 17, 2017 @08:41AM
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I.e. submissions not from YouTube, Imgur, nytimes, etc. submissions from actual people with a point of view, where you can subscribe if you want to learn more. Think Fred Wilson, Seth Godin, Venkatesh Rao, Gwern, etc. writing on their own domain, or at least on their own subdomain where they pay for hosting.
I read through the front page of each of the top 5,000 subreddits (by subscribers) over the last few weeks, and a lot of the subreddits are adding hundreds or thousands of new subscribers per week. They seem to have gone into hypergrowth recently without anyone really noticing.
The other interesting thing of note is that of the 125,000ish posts I read through, there are only a few dozen submissions from independent blogs on the front page of all of these subreddits put together at any given time.