Sunday, January 19, 2014

Find: Stunning graphs show how Reddit went from porn to WTF

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Stunning graphs show how Reddit went from porn to WTF
// The Verge - All Posts

The weird and fascinating world of Reddit has been too large to comprehend all at once, at least until now. Randy Olson, a PhD student from Michigan State University researched how Reddit has changed since its conception in 2005, and made a few stunning graphs that illustrate the rise and fall of topics. The most striking graph provides a stratigraphic look at at the website's past, showing how topics that ruled Reddit in 2006 like "NSFW" and "programming" are no where near as sought out now as topics like "funny" and "WTF." It's almost possible to pinpoint when the most dramatic change occurred by using the graph as well — it came around 2008 when Reddit added a feature that allowed users to create their own subreddits. That small...

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