Reddit CEO confirms plans to introduce paywalls for exclusive content(techspot.com) A hot potato: Reddit will be introducing something that few users are likely to want later this year: paywalls. CEO Steve Huffman has confirmed that the platform will be introducing the ability for some Redditors to create content that only paid members can see, though it won't apply to any subreddits currently available.
5 years of maintaining India's largest dev community on the web(bhupesh.me) I have been part of the r/developersIndia community team since its inception in Jan 2020. A lot has happened since we started this initiative, this post is my personal collection of some learnings as someone behind the scenes along with my failures, community’s successes & some tips for folks thinking to build a community of their own or well for folks who are just interested in what went behind the scenes.
Ask HN: What percentage of Twitter/X's traffic comes from Reddit?(ycombinator.com) I'm curious. Can we do the math?<p>What percentage of Twitter traffic comes from reddit?<p>What percentage of reddit subs (weigted by membership?) have banned that type of link?<p>The question being, will this reddit ban of that other social media site make even a small dent in their traffic?
Reddit sports mods, users calling for a ban on X links in posts(mashable.com) In the fallout of Elon Musk’s baffling appearance during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a curious new front in the ongoing online culture war has emerged: a push by Reddit sports mods and users to ban links to X (formerly known as Twitter).
The war against headlight brightness(theringer.com) The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself?
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I've acquired a new superpower(danielwirtz.com) Yesterday, I was browsing Reddit. Midway through my feed, I stumbled upon a video from a German TV show, where a 9-year-old girl demonstrated her ability to quickly identify the difference between two seemingly similar images.
Will Stock Market Success Mean the End of Reddit?(slate.com) If you spent $1,000 on shares of Tesla at the start of 2024, you’d be sitting on nearly $1,700 now—a 70 percent gain, about double the returns of the overall stock market. A resurgent Bitcoin is up even more, yielding a return of 120 percent for crypto true believers. And then there’s Nvidia, the A.I. chip darling, whose shares skyrocketed 172 percent in 2024—turning $1,000 from a year ago into almost $2,700 today.