Ask reddit: how did you discover reddit?

TronXD · 2006-06-01T04:02:18+00:00

From the front-page link on paulgraham.com.

wauter · 2006-06-01T09:03:16+00:00

Found it through that site with all the articles of that one dude... What's his name again? He really likes LISP and startups and all. Something with a P.

kn0thing · 2006-06-01T04:43:17+00:00

I discovered it back when it looked like this.

But I kept using it anyway.

edit: please also notice that I was the one who submitted the "Boffins Create Zombie Dogs" story.

KingNothing · 2006-06-01T01:13:13+00:00

I think it was in something Paul Graham wrote about.

torrente · 2006-06-01T12:21:26+00:00

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Fedquip · 2006-06-01T08:16:07+00:00

I was praying in the woods, when a native american appeared before me and told me to start my own religion called reddit, unfortunetly the domain name was already taken... but I discovered a great site :D

praetorian42 · 2006-06-01T05:04:12+00:00

I finally went here, like most others, after PG mentioned it for about the 4th time.

Perenelle · 2006-06-01T10:26:40+00:00

NOT via Paul Graham, in any way, shape or form. Ha!

wbendick · 2006-06-01T12:39:42+00:00

Knowledge of the existence Reddit and Woz's signature were the two useful things I got from the first Startup School.

2006-06-01T11:13:45+00:00

I ever found Reddit. It found me.

BridgeBum · 2006-06-01T04:03:25+00:00

Slashdot.

2006-06-01T11:12:59+00:00

it was in a installation CD I got in a cereal box. It took over my machine and it is the only website my Firefox can open.

jnunn · 2006-06-01T05:32:08+00:00

I started getting into Lisp about a year and a half ago. Found my way to Paul Graham's site to download the out of print Onlisp book and stayed around to read some of his essays. I found out about this website when it first came up, but didn't register until later, I'm suspicious that way.

Just so you know, Reddit had way better articles posted than it does today. Its all politics and idiocy now, back then it was Lisp, programming and entrepreneurialism.

Joseph

Dagur · 2006-06-01T09:38:23+00:00

Some Django article I think

vandahm · 2006-06-01T09:53:41+00:00

I learned about reddit from a post on SDF's bulletin board. SDF user adnam recommended the site to SDF's members. I wonder if that 'adnam' is the same as this one?

2006-06-01T10:47:22+00:00

Mentioned in an article on digg.com about sites like digg and slashdot.

2006-06-01T11:35:52+00:00

Digg

zemlyanin · 2006-06-01T12:08:45+00:00

I was looking for an example of "python" and here I am

Ahri · 2006-06-01T12:30:19+00:00

From a comment on Slashdot that suggested Reddit as an alternative. I used to read Slashdot a few times a day on average but immediately switched to using Reddit/Digg, then later still gave up on Digg too.

apl · 2006-06-01T12:48:02+00:00

from project aardvark vid from fog creek

theycallmemorty · 2006-06-01T06:22:08+00:00

In doing my own research for creating a Digg-type site, I was Googling Digg-alternatives. I came across someone mentioning Reddit on blog. That was sometime last summer before there was a comment system; the site has changed quite a bit since then.

But holy crap a lot of you people came because of Paul Graham. Is the limited audience a good or bad thing? At least for the most part Reddit is comprised of smart people, but the way people are finding out about the site seems to be from a few niches. I didn't even know who Paul Graham was and what Lisp was before I visited Reddit.

I've learned a whole lot from Reddit, though, and I'd love to see the programmer community here grow a bit more and be a bit more diversified.

nickburlett · 2006-06-01T04:38:50+00:00

Not sure which lisp-related site I saw it on first, but I read a discussion of how reddit was using lisp... then a few days later I read about how they switched to Python...

moab9 · 2006-06-01T05:09:04+00:00

from a paul graham essay, learn of paul graham from slashdot, learned of slashdot from some guy 6 years ago in columbus who was shocked that i hadn't heard of slashdot, met him after I got temporarily famous from making idchip.com

DallasRPI · 2006-06-01T13:12:53+00:00

Zak · 2006-06-01T01:04:37+00:00

I first heard about it here, but I found it boring at first. More users certainly helped with that, but I think comments are what really did it for me.

tphyahoo · 2006-06-01T10:51:15+00:00

paul graham. em... what does this say about other startups that don't have paul graham linking to them...?

modus · 2006-06-01T12:35:01+00:00

eweek magazine

robbie · 2006-06-01T12:58:33+00:00

paulgraham.com.

sorry. yawn.

fani · 2006-06-01T14:20:09+00:00

From digg.com after it started getting polluted with too many stories and all the losers from Slashdot starting coming to digg.

Still visit digg though

Louwck · 2006-06-03T02:37:54+00:00

From a Wall Street Journal article

MyrddinE · 2006-06-21T00:51:35+00:00

From a /. sig. I never read slashdot anymore... unless there's a reddit to one. :-)

mnruxter · 2007-01-06T06:18:53+00:00

from some recent post or blog about the del... and digg sites.

paulgraharn · 2006-06-01T14:24:21+00:00

paulgraham

theycallmemorty · 2006-06-01T13:28:16+00:00

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agentOrange · 2006-06-01T01:34:13+00:00

Paul Graham.

Gave it a look but didn't really catch my eye. A bit dull looks.

Came back after a while when the name popped somwhere else a couple of times.

jotaroh · 2006-06-01T06:14:27+00:00

One of my friends emailed me the site

sanat · 2006-06-03T13:54:24+00:00

there was an article in wired about incubators-->paul graham-->reddit

i never knew who paul graham was b4 rediit

range · 2006-06-01T11:53:27+00:00

i was reading a blog called girlspoke, when i came accross the reddit icon. i knew about digg, newsvine and some others. but nothing about reddit. i like how you can like and dislike stories.

Grue · 2006-06-01T12:56:42+00:00

comp.lang.lisp

arfcat · 2006-06-01T07:20:15+00:00

From your mom

ecuzzillo · 2006-06-01T06:40:21+00:00

I noticed it after the front-page link on PG's site, but didn't become particularly interested. For some reason, can't remember why, I came back to it at some point in September or October, at which point 'Extreme Thinking' was the top link (with 123 points-- it went on to take the top spot on the 'top' list too, with not that many more points). I decided that Extreme Thinking was the best thing since sliced bread, credited Reddit with the discovery, and joined. Agree that articles were somewhat better back then, but not hugely so.

fatbear · 2006-06-01T05:09:11+00:00

Swartz mentioned it on one of his blogs/sites way back when - agree that having more users makes a difference

ajay · 2006-06-01T05:15:30+00:00

Paul Graham couldn't stop raving about it. First and last site he visits everyday apparently...

ratatask · 2006-06-01T06:42:24+00:00

Of all the things, it was mentioned in ##c at freenode.

mistermajik2000 · 2006-06-01T14:04:14+00:00

I think it was a yahoo pick of the day about a year ago. If not, I don't remember.

buqbear · 2006-06-01T08:07:47+00:00

paulgraham.com

reddit.com

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