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Huffman: 2015 moderator revolt effectively shut Reddit down for two days
“All the communities on Reddit, you know, the many thousands of them are created by users and run by users that we call moderators, and they were upset, you know, for some acute issues and also just, like, just general frustration, and so they took their commun…”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 40:06 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
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Ohanian: Condé Nast bought Reddit for between $10M and $20M
“That is accurate.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 30:34 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
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Huffman: Digg was five times bigger than Reddit before a fatal redesign
“Dig was five times bigger than us. They released a new version of their software that was so Disliked by users that the users came to Reddit.”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 40:51 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
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Ohanian: 300 million people visit Reddit each month
“Consider three hundred million people will visit Reddit this month. That's almost as big as the population in the United States.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 43:55 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
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Early Reddit required all front-page links to be under 24 hours old
“Alexis and I were submitting all the content, and we had a rule back then that all of the content on the front page had to be less than 24 hours old. And the front page was 25 links long. So if there were fewer than 25 links submitted that day, there would be …”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 24:10 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
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Ohanian: Reddit launched after only three weeks of development
“We actually only worked on it for about three weeks before we launched it.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 17:17 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
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Ohanian: Reddit founders received $12,000 from Paul Graham for three months
“And this was a chance to basically get 12,000 dollars from an investor we really trusted to just try something for three months.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 15:51 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
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