The numbers show that Reddit has a lot to celebrate on its 10th birthday
Reddit has come a long way since its inception exactly 10 years ago — or 5,258,776 minutes ago — for those that have been counting. The community site has become one of the most popular sites on the...
View ArticleThese gay Texas shopkeepers closed early to get married, and the note they...
Earlier today, the two men who own Red Pegasus Comics and Games in Dallas, Texas, put a sign on their door that the shop would be opening late.Their reason: the pair was headed to the courthouse to...
View ArticleHere's why Arnold Schwarzenegger loves using Reddit
At 67, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is better at social media than you are.As the means of being a huge star in Hollywood has changed, Schwarzenegger has adapted better than most by embracing the power...
View ArticleThis video of a 'stoic' NYPD cop dancing with a gay-pride marcher is the best...
The New York Police Department provided more than just security for the city's annual pride parade.One cop is becoming a viral sensation thanks to his stellar dance skills. You might even call his...
View Article9 tips to travel on the cheap from someone who's visited 125 countries on $15...
Wish that you could afford to travel more?According to Patrick Martin Schroeder, you can.For the past eight years, he's traveled around the world and spent approximately $45,000 in the process, which...
View ArticleThe creepiest and most bizarre stories told by people who explored the...
Someone on Reddit recently asked the simple question"What's your Deep Web story?"In other words, the Reddit user was asking people to share any weird experiences they had encountered while using...
View ArticleA Virginia mom worried not enough people would come to her son's birthday —...
This Virginia mom was worried not enough people would attend her son's birthday party — now, thanks to the internet, over a thousand people are excited to celebrate the big day. Camden Eubanks is...
View ArticleThis useless website only lets one person visit it for 60 seconds at a time...
It’s hard — perhaps impossible — to be actually alone online. But now there's a website that offers people some alone-time online, and it's so popular its servers are crashing.The online destination...
View ArticleReddit's popular 'ask me anything' feature is down after a key employee is gone
Reddit's popular Ask Me Anything (iAMA) feature is offline following a key employee's departure.Subreddit moderators are revolting and setting their sections to private today after Reddit's director of...
View ArticleRedditors are disgusted by one man's photo of a pathetic breakfast sandwich
Airplane food is known for being terrible, but nobody ever said anything about airport food.Earlier this week, Reddit user "spambox" posted a photo of a bacon and egg sandwich he was allegedly served...
View ArticleReddit is having a meltdown
Reddit’s community is falling apart at the seams after the site’s popular Ask Me Anything (iAMA) feature went offline.The reason? Reddit’s director of communications Victoria Taylor (/u/chooter) was...
View ArticleReddit is in utter chaos as hundreds of its most popular communities go dark
Reddit has been thrust into chaos on Friday as hundreds of the biggest communities on the social news site went dark following the sudden departure of a popular employee.Victoria Taylor, a staff member...
View ArticleReddit's 'ask my anything' moderators issue first statement, say company's...
The moderators of Reddit's popular "Ask Me Anything (AMA)" Q&A thread just issued their first statement, blaming the company's admin staff for not providing enough information related to former AMA...
View ArticleA petition to remove Ellen Pao as Reddit CEO has added more than 100,000...
An online petition asking Reddit to oust interim CEO Ellen Pao has added more than 100,000 signatures since Friday, when news broke that a popular employee of the site was suddenly gone and volunteer...
View ArticleThe Decentral Authority
We’ve been big fans of Reddit since it was part of the first Y Combinator class ten years ago this summer. We’ve watched closely as it emerged as a community powered mostly by its users. There was a...
View ArticleThe next Reddit could be based on bitcoin and impossible to censor
What's next for Reddit? After the abrupt dismissal of a popular staff member saw its volunteer moderators take hundreds of the site's most popular communities offline in protest, some users have...
View ArticleA Redditor ordered a Frozen-themed cake, but received something that looked...
Redditors are having a good laugh over a cake that was supposed to look like a Disney Princess but instead resembled an alien who fell asleep in a tanning bed.A Reddit user, OfficialBigHead, posted...
View ArticleEllen Pao apologizes to Reddit users: 'We screwed up'
Interim Reddit CEO Ellen Pao apologized to the Reddit community Monday after an online petition asking the company to oust Pao racked up more than 175,000 signatures over the weekend."We screwed up....
View ArticleHere's what a completely 'decentralized' version of Reddit would look like
For a brief but glorious time, I was the cryptocurrency engineer at Reddit.Yes, that was my actual title and it was actually awesome. Although I was publicly hired to work on cryptocurrency, we...
View ArticleHere's who really has the power at Reddit
Reddit went into revolt over the weekend after the company apparently dismissed a popular employee, Victoria Taylor, who was in charge of the site's popular "Ask Me Anything" interviews. Volunteers who...
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