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Huffman: Reddit is crushing Digg and is nearly twice its size
“Well, Reddit is crushing Dig now. I think they're almost twice as large as Dig... In traffic... And uniques per month and page views per month. Or is my understanding, you know, I haven't, I don't have direct access to Reddit numbers anymore, but from what the…”
Huffman: A 10% speed increase boosted Reddit page views by 10%
“If we made the site go faster by 10%, page use would go up by 10%.”
Huffman: Paul Graham asked Reddit to build Hacker News first
“Paul, Paul had approached us before building Hacker News and said, Hey, can you guys make me my own Reddit where people can only upvote and I can have like supreme control over the content? And then we were like, no, that's not, You know, that's not really on …”
Huffman: Startups get tons of press just for joining Y Combinator
“Whether or not you build a good product, you're going to get a ton of press just being a part of Y Combinator.”
Huffman: All travel search sites access the same flight data
“All the travel sites have access to the same data, effectively, including us.”
Huffman: Reddit reached nine million unique visitors last month
“I can only speak for Reddit's numbers, and that, they got nine million uniques last month.”
Huffman: Paul Graham delivered Reddit's first ~1,000 unique visitors
“So Paul brought us the first maybe thousand or so uniques.”
Huffman: Reddit founders initially thought early moderator qgyh2 was a bot
“I know one of the first outside moderators that sticks in my mind is QGYH too. He was this insane Reddit user. I shouldn't say he was insane. He spent insane amounts of time on the site and we always thought he was a bot for a long time because we would look a…”
Huffman: Reddit grew 20x following its 2006 sale to Condé Nast
“You know, we have the benefit of hindsight now, and we can see, you know, if we had known that Reddit was gonna grow 20 times since we got bought, you know, maybe we would've played our cards a little differently.”
Huffman: Paul Graham insisted early Reddit cram content into the upper-left
“So one of the things he told us very early on, if I don't even think we had launched anything, maybe we had shown him some screenshots, was he insisted that we put as much content in the upper left of the page as possible.”
Huffman: Paul Graham hated Reddit's alien logo and wanted it hidden
“Oh, our name, the logo, he hated the logo. He thought we should put the logo down in the lower right of the screen so people would, you know, it's, there was a lot of branding things that he cared about.”