reddit

Reddit is a social news aggregator, a website, set to the registered users can provide content /. A piece of content can consist of either a link or a text post. Other users can assess the contributions as positive or negative. The reviews indicate which position the contribution to the respective Reddit page and the home page.

Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005 and was part of the Condé Nast publishing since 31 October 2006. Because of the steady growth Reddit was spun on September 6, 2011 in Reddit Inc. and is now, as Condé Nast, the media company Advance Publications.

The name is a portmanteau Reddit combination of the words "read" (read) and "edit" (editing) and to the saying "read it" ( " Have it read " ) are similar phonetically.

  • 2.1 Open Source
  • 2.2 Reddit Gold
  • 2.3 Economic change
  • 2.4 Blackout
  • 4.1 Mobile Web

Overview

Registered users (often called Redditors ) can adjust their contributions in individual, sorted by topic, so-called Subreddits. The placement of a contribution is calculated both on the general home page, as well as at the individual home through the ages, the positive and negative feedback, and the whole so -called " Karma Score ". This daily dozens of posts occur on the home pages.

Users may choose content by either external links or through their own posts on Reddit. Our own Posts containing (also called self -posts ) user-generated texts on specific topics or issues. Other users evaluate the contributions of either a positive ( upvote ) or negative ( downvote ) feedback. In addition, users can comment on posts and rate comments of others. The evaluation points for comments, however, have no effect on the placement of the contribution. For contributions or comments that have been rated by other users is positive, the corresponding author either link -karma receives for his contribution or comment- karma for his comment. In self -posts, however, the author does not get any karma points.

Subreddits

Reddit is called Subreddits, or even just Reddits, divided, allow a thematic sorting of the entries submitted. Here, the user specifies when submitting a post in which this subreddit to appear. If no suitable subreddit available, registered users can also create your own Subreddits. As a registered user you also have the possibility to get fast Subreddits to subscribe to new posts. Contributions from the selected Subreddits then appear on the homepage. In December 2011, reaching more than 100,000 Reddit Subreddits.

The Subreddits with most subscribers to link to any Reddit page in the header.

IAMA

One of the most famous Subreddits is IAMA. In this subreddit exists between the users of the motto AMA - Ask me anything. Especially celebrities such as Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Bear Grylls, Deadmau5, Zach Braff, Neil deGrasse Tyson and others here answer questions from the community. It is left up to the users what questions they want to ask. To get an overview of the upcoming celebrity IAMAS, there is a schedule on the right side of Subreddits.

Karma

As karma is referred to its own reputation at Reddit. Leading the way this is the rating system. Will rated positively by other users own posts and comments, the respective karma of the user increases. In contrast, the karma decreases with negative reviews. Contributions that only your own text and no external link include (so-called self -posts ) will not get any karma points. In this case, there is one counter for the ratings of their own contributions and for their own comments. A single evaluation results from the sum of the so-called upvotes, minus the Down Votes, for their specific contribution. The karma of the user is under his profile name.

Since the evaluation system is crucial for the ranking of the contribution that it can sometimes happen that the karma is artificially increased. This is done by several fake accounts can be created by a user to rate a post as soon as possible positively can. In order to maintain objectivity in the comments, there is a so-called Reddiquette to which you want users to keep creating their comments. However, this policy is not mandatory.

History

Reddit was founded in June 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. For the creation of them 100,000 U.S. $ were asked by the start-up company Y Combinator available. In order to increase the traffic the site quickly, both created many fake accounts to post links from there. In October 2006, Reddit was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing for $ 20 million after the site reached 500,000 daily unique pageviews. Early 2008, a Reddit that every user could create your own Subreddits. In February 2011, the site reached 1 billion calls in a month and in September of the same year even 1.6 billion for the first time. Then, Reddit was spun off from the Condé Nast publishing house and continued as reddit.inc.

Open Source

On 17 June 2008 it was announced that Reddit is from now on an open source project. With the exception of the anti -spam area of ​​the complete code and the tools used can be used free of charge on GitHub.

Reddit gave three reasons for this approach. For one, you go to Reddit assume that the development of the site progresses faster in use by open source. Secondly, the site should be completely transparent to the user. Another reason for this approach was that Reddit exclusively open source software used up to this point for their website and should now be a part of it.

Reddit Gold

In July 2010, Reddit launched its new feature Reddit Gold, after the traffic to the site had increased massively. Reddit Gold gives users an extra-cost features. The costs for this are at 3.99 U.S. $ / month or 29.99 U.S. $ / year. The revenue will be used by Reddit for hiring new employees and to acquire new hardware equipment.

Users who purchased the Reddit Gold membership additionally receive the following benefits:

  • Users get a trophy on the respective user page displayed
  • Users can turn off advertising and Sponsors Links
  • Users can see twice as many comments as usual at once
  • Users can view up to 100 Subreddits on your own user page
  • Users get a new comment function to see what has been added since your last visit New
  • Users get access to the Friends with Benefits ™ feature. Here you get the opportunity to write notes in his friend list

In addition Reddit Reddit away one months gold to any user who sends a postcard to the company.

Economic change

6 September 2011 Reddit was spun off and as reddit.inc reports directly to the parent company, Advance Publications, due to its steady growth from the Condé Nast publishing house. Reddit justified this step so that the traffic to the site had increased explosively in the last five years. Was it in 2006 or an average of 700,000 calls to the site in one day, this number has been reached, on average, every 15 minutes in 2011.

Blackout

Policy

" - AMA President of the United States I am Barack Obama, " (AMA = Ask Me Anything ) reported during his campaign for re-election on Reddit to Word On August 29, 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama had with. For half an hour he answered the questions of " Redditors ". Within a short time about 13,000 comments have been written so that it led shortly afterwards to a brief total failure of Reddit because of the high access. Obama's username on Reddit reads "President Obama".

Technology

The software behind Reddit was originally written in Common Lisp, but then re-created in the Python programming language in December 2005. The reasons for this were mainly the larger selection of program libraries, better performance and more flexible development options. Furthermore, the software uses a PostgreSQL database.

In January 2009, Reddit announced that the company is now working together with the JavaScript class library jQuery. End of 2009, Reddit decided to not use their own server infrastructure more, but switching to the cloud services to Amazon Web Services.

Mobile Web

In June 2007, the Reddit site was re-designed for mobile use. This was all about visual changes using CSS and a better usability of the site within the mobile browser.

Mobile apps allow also easy and quick to use Reddit to smartphones and tablets. Unofficial Apps on Android Market shall use the Reddit API. Popular apps for Android are, inter alia, reddit is fun, andreddit, bacon reader and specifically for Android Tablets Reddita Free. For Apple iOS there is the official iReddit app and the unofficial Alien Blue app.

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