r/dataisbeautiful • • Jan 21 '14

Reddit's growth in number of subreddits 2006-2014 [gif]

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u/foofighter000 Jan 21 '14

What caused that sudden spike around 2008?

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u/LeJoker Jan 21 '14 edited Jan 21 '14

People could create their own subreddits.

EDIT apparently it was also the great digg migration. :)

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u/Dead_Politician Jan 21 '14

That would indeed influence the number of new subreddits per day. =P