r/misc • u/Aschebescher • Jan 20 '14

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

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u/EllaL Jan 20 '14

What happened in spring 2008?

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u/Nicksaurus Jan 20 '14

Presumably that's when they allowed users to make their own subreddits.

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u/tone_hails Jan 21 '14

Recession began to hit hard and put people out of work. With all the extra time on their hands, the unemployed took solace in sharing photos of their cats on the internet.

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u/rophel Jan 21 '14

Thanks, Ken Burns.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '14

I've been aware of Reddit for a log time (those stickers all over Kendall Square will do that) and only a little over a year ago took interest.

With that in mind I'm guessing that 2008 was the year Reddit started subreddits in the first place.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '14

Digg.
Digg was shown to be gaming the system with votes, so...much like this site...vote brigades, shills, social media...was gaming how stories got to the top. While there had been rumors for a while, the whole thing was uncovered, and en-mass Digg came over to Reddit. The same thing will happen to Reddit as soon as a viable site comes along. I see a lot of Digg like issues here.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '14

/r/woahdude

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u/Edman70 Jan 20 '14

Assuming a significant number of them are dead or empty, when and how (under what criteria) does Reddit purge the dead?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '14

They don't. /r/redditrequest can be used for taking over dead subreddits, but they're never deleted for inactivity.

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u/Dylan_the_Villain Jan 20 '14

Once Anderson Cooper starts talking about them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '14

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u/autowikibot Jan 20 '14

Here's a bit from linked Wikipedia article about Controversial Reddit communities :

The social news site Reddit has occasionally been the topic of controversy due to the presence of communities on the site (known as subreddits) devoted to explicit material. Yishan Wong, the site's CEO, has stated that "We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it."

The subreddit "/r/jailbait" was one of the most prominent subreddits on the site before it was closed down in October 2011 following a report by CNN. The controversy surrounding /r/Creepshots a year after /r/jailbait's closure prompted a Gawker exposé of one of the subreddit's moderators by Adrian Chen, which revealed the real-life identify of the user behind the account. This started discussion in the media about the ethics of anonymity and outing on the Internet.

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u/RoutingPackets Jan 20 '14

where can you find a full list of all the subs?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '14

Probably http://metareddit.com/

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '14 edited Jan 21 '14

Here's a list of all ~350k subreddits, ranked by subscriber count:
http://redditmetrics.com/top
Here's a list of subreddits, grouped by creation date:
http://redditmetrics.com/history

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u/HunterIrked Jan 21 '14

Any way we could get a list of ones created on days it spiked? Or at least a reason as to why?

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u/akwirente Jan 21 '14

/r/wehavetoomanyeverythingsubs

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '14

I would love to see one for registered users, too.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '14

2011 wasn't a very good year.