When they said Reddit has 2000 employees I was shocked. what could they possibly do onto a website that is basically run by users (and sysadmins) and that is basically feature-wise mature? I really can’t figure out 2000 people working every day on Reddit… on what? just for a quick comparison, the whole IAmA was run by a single person (Victoria), so… what are they doing?

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Let’s see. Reddit right now has:

    • NFT
    • real time chat
    • image and video hosting (imgur used to handle these). needs manpower to make sure they’re not hosting something illegal like cp
    • various one-off functionalities (r/place, polls, etc)
    • react-based frontend (and the mobile counterpart)
    • mobile apps for Android and iOS (seemingly a separate codebase)
    • ads/marketing departments that case around big companies to place ads on Reddit
    • various virtual goods (gold awards, profile pics customization)
    • probably a community team that monitor what’s reddit users currently up to, like banning subreddits that breaking TOS or insulting spez.

    and perhaps many more I’m not aware about. With those whole sets of “features”, 2000 seems to be quite reasonable IMO. The marketing stuff is especially all about numbers.