Wow, good job, Team Reddit!<p>Since I think you guy still read HN: Something you all seem to do very, very well is interact with your users. Almost every day I'll see somebody [usually jedberg] show up in a thread answering a question, or responding to something, or even just saying hello.<p>Like this: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/fdyyf/reddit_billions_served/c1f7h8g" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/fdyyf/reddit_billions_...</a><p>That's awesome :).
120,000,000 is what we (minecraft forum and minecraft wiki) hit for January (as per quantcast) which I think is pretty neat too, for anyone who likes pretty stats.
That's 380 pages every second consecutively. The reality is probably much grimmer, say, 1000+ page a second during peak usage.<p>Very, very impressive.
This proves that it doesn't have to have a negative effect on the page count to open source the code. Reddit source code: <a href="http://code.reddit.com/" rel="nofollow">http://code.reddit.com/</a>
In light of the threads lately about how well StackOverflow does with their MS stack, I'm wondering how their traffic compares to Reddit, which runs on OSS/Python + Java.
I have mixed feelings about this statistic. On the one hand, I get to feel cool because I was into reddit before it got popular. On the other hand, reddit has jumped the shark with all of the awful people that have recently joined to get it to the 1 billion monthly pageview category. But, then again, that's kind of a good thing because I don't visit reddit anymore so I'm a million times more productive than I used to be :)
If the reddit team had had (errr... how's my use of English past tense?) the $150K deal, they might have lasted this long on just that. They probably would not have sold to Conde Nast when they did.
Congratulations!<p>Also, YC S05, we are in 2011. Work hard, play for the long run, listen to your customers. Go through the lows and the highs, never stop, for nearly 6 years. This what I take from this story :)