On: Reddit's traffic grew by 300% in 2010

[Aqwis]

I for one found HN through Reddit.

[redthrowaway → Aqwis]

Same. Given that HN was originally supposed to be part of Reddit, that's not surprising.

[jedberg → redthrowaway]

> Given that HN was originally supposed to be part of Reddit, that's not surprising.

What makes you say that?

[redthrowaway → jedberg]

I thought the story was that PG wanted his own subreddit where nobody could downvote, you said no, so he built HN (this is a paraphrasing of hazy memories)

edit: If memory serves, Steve mentioned this offhand in a video interview I saw somewhere. I think this one, but I could be wrong.

http://blog.hipmunk.com/mixergy-interview-with-steve-huffman...

[kn0thing → redthrowaway]

That is correct.

[smallhands → Aqwis]

me too funny enough i never went to reddit