With 30 million unique visitors and close to 2 billion page views a month, it’s safe to say a lot happens on the link-sharing and discussion site Reddit every day. There are more than 90,000 sections on the site; a single discussion alone can sometimes attract more than 10,000 comments.
How can anyone keep track of it all? Our daily Reddit digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the site—every morning.
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Reddit was down most of yesterday, and many of the reasons why are still a mystery, according to adminalienth. To Reddit’s credit, once the site came back the front page did not devolve into a series of bad jokes about Reddit being down. (Redditors apparently already tired themselves out on Twitter) (r/announcements)
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What’s a word you always used to mispronounce? /r/AskReddit wants to know. My favorite, by far: “When I was 6 I thought the word for a movie theatre was “theatreneerieu” (on TV they always said: …Soon coming to a theatreniereiu!’)” (/r/AskReddit).
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Can /r/askscience, which depends on heavy moderation to maintain quality submissions and responses, cope with its own popularity? It’s another form of a debate that will never end on Reddit: Can quality be maintained amidst rapid growth? In /r/askscience the question is particularly troubling because of just how good that subreddit often can be. (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Russian redditor Qwuffl stopped posting about Skyrim this month. Now he posts hands-on accounts of the demonstrations in Moscow. He began earlier this week with a sensational post about imminent civil war. Now he’s taken to /r/pics with a photograph he took of his friends in police custody. They look surprisingly happy. (/r/pics)
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Seven years on, NASA’s Opportunity rover is still trucking along. This time, it’s found a mineral vein deposited by water. Leave it to redditors, in their admiration, to sexualize the little rover that could. (/r/science)