A short history of Reddit

 Reddit is one of the most visited websites in the world and is one of the largest forums available.Since his debut in 2005, Reddit has served as a platform to share and discuss topics and deliver them.

This forum is a place to learn, share, debate, and a place for many people to build a community.This is a brief history of how Reddit becomes.


Reddit was founded in June 2005


Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian on June 23, 2005, in Medford, Massachusetts.Both were roommates and students at the University of Virginia at the time and began building Reddit for fun.

The American Startup Funder named Y Combinator (YC) provides a $ 100,000 Reddit. Then, in the same year, Reddit joined Infogamy and began working with Aaron Swartz.Swartz Rewrote Reddit's Codebase, use the program that he designed for the info game.

Both sites struggle to get traction individually; However, when they joined to form Reddit, the site began to take off.Shortly after being launched, features added, such as comments, were added in December 2005.Reddit is a place where people can discuss and share thoughts and ideas.


Reddit is taken under the wing of the Publication of Condé Nast

In 2006, conducting publications acquired Reddit. Huffman and Oh Agrans sell Reddit around $ 10- $ 20 million.

The team moved to San Francisco, where Reddit began to become more than a business company.

Only in 2011 that finally became independent with Condé Nast and became his subsidiary from the publication of the parent company.

In 2010 Reddit Gold was launched

Reddit is needed to make money from their site, so and advertising, they introduce membership.Gold membership, also known as Reddit Premium, provides more benefits for the editor and creates a new form of income for Reddit.

In 2013 Reddit began collaborating with Bitcoin and allowed a paid gold subscription to use Bitcoin.

In 2018 Reddit Gold was launched and became a Reddit premium, the cost of relics costs $ 3.99 per month, and a new member of $ 5.99 a month.Another upgrade to Rebrand allows users to give other editor gifts with coins.

Initially, as part of the Reddit gold package, you can only provide gold coins to other users.But in 2018, silver and platinum coins were introduced as gifts to give gifts to other users for their comments and contributions.

In 2021, Reddit had more than 2.6 million subreddits

Reddit starts with only one subreddits. Subreddit is an utas made by users who focus more on certain topics.This allows users to categorize information or discussion simply and more appropriately.

After the subreddit is made, it remains on the site forever.However, of these 2.6 million subreddits, only around 100,000 were active in 2021.The most popular subreddit is / r / announcement, with more than 100 million customers.

Reddit has more than 300 million posts in 2020

In 2021, Reddit became the website 8 most visited and continued to grow.In 2020 the average daily active user was recorded at 52 million, which showed a 44% increase compared to the previous year.There were 303.4 million posts which showed a 52.4% increase compared to previous years.

2020 saw 49.2 billion upvotes which showed a 53.8% increase compared to other years.

In conclusion

Reddit has traveled extraordinary, from starting as a college side project created by Huffman and Oh Agrans to advance to a subsidiary with Condé Nast.

Although it is starting to be slow, Reddit has become a leading global discussion site.

This site has been built to encourage all users to make discussions and debates.

By forming their membership and currency, Reddit is truly creative when bringing income other than advertising.


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