4,000 redditors in Over 40 Countries Went AFK for GrMD 2011
This past Saturday around 4,000 of you magnificent bastards met up in more than 40 countries around the globe. You can peruse all of the glorious pictures HERE, and add yours if you don't see them in...
View Articleit's time for us to pack up and move on to bigger and better things.
So, I was visiting the reddit headquarters at a very bittersweet time for the team last week. It was a little painful to do, but I helped the guys pack up their stuff and move out of the old office for...
View ArticleHelping the Economy, One [Hiring] Campaign at a Time!
About 3 weeks ago, reddit decided to utilize our Self-Serve advertising platform to take over companies from the inside help the economy and the reddit community by offering FREE advertising to anyone...
View ArticleWho in the world is reddit?
When we saw the response that burgess_meredith_jr's reddit demographic survey received, we were intrigued by how diverse reddit's community is. We had a general idea about who the average redditor was,...
View ArticleAnnouncing reddit companion for Chrome
I'm pleased to announce the release of reddit companion, an official reddit extension for Chrome. Like Socialite, when you click on a link from reddit, companion provides a contextual info bar that...
View ArticleNerd talk: The tale of the life of a link on reddit, told in graph porn
reddit has a lot of fresh content being submitted all of the time, so how do we pick what makes the front page? After the tank of manatees has their pick, I mean.Since I love some good ol' fashioned...
View ArticleAsk Comic-Con Celebrities Anything
Thanks to our friends at Bing, reddit will be hanging out at the WIRED Cafe for Comic-Con this year. We'll be there to ask celebrities questions on your behalf.Go here to submit questions we can ask...
View ArticleThe next generation of reddit mobile
A little over a year ago, we launched a mobile version of reddit. The original version was designed for webkit only devices, mainly Android and the iPhone. Since then, the mobile space has expanded...
View ArticleGrow A College Subreddit Competition
A guest post from reddit's summer intern Josh Irwin (jamsbyjosh)As summer comes to an end, some of us return to our daily lives of surfing reddit while in class back at school. This summer, I have had...
View ArticleCelebrities at Comic-Con Sit Down For Quick AMAs
I was on hand at Comic-Con 2011 to ask celebrities questions from you, the reddit community — all thanks to a sponsorship by Bing. We grabbed celebrities from the WIRED Cafe and had them answer your...
View Articlereddit acquires redditgifts.com to support Secret Santa '11, more gift...
We are excited to announce that reddit inc has acquired redditgifts.com and that Dan McComas (kickme444) and Jessica Moreno (5days) will now be able to work full time on redditgifts.com. Dan &...
View ArticlePutting reddit to good use during a natural disaster
The following is a special guest post from former reddit admin raldi (nobody ever really leaves reddit) As Hurricane Irene travels up the U.S. East Coast, I've been trying to follow along from...
View ArticleFrom Aberystwyth to York, Update on the Grow a College Subreddit Competition.
Earlier this month we announced our first Grow a College Subreddit Competition to see which college could cultivate the best subreddit. When we announced the contest, we had a list of 50 schools. That...
View ArticleHow reddit works
Over the past 15 months, reddit has tripled in size. Since last May, we’ve grown from 7 million monthly unique visitors to 21.5 million. Our pageviews have exploded 4x to a staggering 1.6 billion pages...
View ArticleIndependence
Today reddit, a division of Condé Nast, becomes reddit Inc.This change is all about setting up reddit so that it can better handle future growth and opportunities. When reddit was acquired in October...
View ArticleWho in the World is reddit? Results are in...
More than 30,000 of you heeded the call for the Who in the World is reddit Survey. The results are in and we'd like to share what we've learned with our fellow redditors.Click here for the data (big...
View ArticleToday redditgifts announces reddit Trick or Treat 2011 exchange, meetup day...
Halloween is our absolute favorite holiday. Ever since we decided to add more exchanges we have wanted to do this! All it took was a bit of prodding from community members MisterTruth and Auyan.We are...
View ArticleIf you're a Nonprofit Organization, we have some free ad space for you.
With the recent success of our "For Hire" self service advertising campaign, we thought we would reach out to another worthwhile audience — nonprofit organizations.Along the same vein as the previous...
View ArticleAnd the servers rejoiced
Greetings redditors,After a year of insane growth in both traffic and infrastructure, the demands of the site have given us the charge of growing the reddit admin team. To that end, I am extremely...
View Articlereddit is Hiring! Position: Community Manager for the best Community in the...
reddit is looking for a Community Manager who is passionate and dedicated to supporting the best online community (ok, we're biased).The main responsibilities of the job are to triage all varieties of...
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