Reddit Hits 1.2B Monthly Pageviews, More Than Doubles Its Engineering Staff

Non-blog spam: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2658592" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2658592</a>

I wonder what the guys who founded and sold Reddit must be thinking of the site's continued success. Ever since Digg went down Reddit seems to have completely taken over the social news category.

Lies, damned lies, and linkbaits.<p>Sensationalist title: "Reddit more than doubles its engineering staff!!1!"<p>Actual event: Reddit hires three new programmers.

This story is from 3 months ago, it's changed a lot since. As a user of reddit, I suspect that the page views have risen even more.<p>edit: wait the URL just changed again, it was pointing to a story that was listed as being from March and all the comments were from March too, how strange?<p>Also straight from the source: <a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2011/06/reddit-levels-up-with-three-new.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.reddit.com/2011/06/reddit-levels-up-with-three-n...</a>

I've recently passed the 5 year mark on Reddit and watched my on-site time drop to minutes a week over the last few months.<p>Not sure why, unlike some people who complain, and have been there less time, the quality of submissions and comments is not really any worse than it has ever been. But then it has always just been a time wasting diversion. It did manage to kill my use of slashdot 5 years back. Maybe my Reddit time has been killed by techmeme/river.

Perhaps this is a naive (or dumb) question, but what will all those new engineers do? Reddit is doing what it has always done why does just scaling up require so many more engineers?

Law of small numbers- way to exploit that for a headline

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Great that it's a success. But since it's a pool of cheap memes I'm not about to unblock it on my computer's hosts file.

Great to see they're still hard.