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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Three -year-old Lucas Gonzalez has a rare bone disease. To cure it, he needs a bone-marrow transplant, which will cost his family $50,000. No worries. A family friend is a redditor. After 24 hours, the family has closed donations. (/r/Assistance)
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Taking a pleasant train ride through the Swiss Alps? Don’t light a match when you pass under the next mountain. The bridges and tunnels are rigged with explosives so the whole country can be turned into a “mountain fortress” in case of war. Just don’t tell them about helicopters. (/r/todayilearned)
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In November, a male porn star thrilled reddit with a pretty entertaining AMA . Two weeks later, he’s still answering questions. “Would be funny if reddit becomes a thing in the porn industry,” wrote one /r/bestof commenter. I think Reddit’s porn future is already here, good sir. (r/iama)
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Turns out F7U12 isn’t as reflexively anti-authority as many might assume. Nearly 25,000 people voted in the subreddit’s recent survey and overwhelmingly voted to keep the subreddit’s rule-set. (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Redditor GoneWILD_NOTGoneTAME is just furious at all the non-nude photos appearing in /r/gonewild. “This isn’t for the ‘I’m shy, so I’ll see how much attention this gets before going on’. This isn’t ‘My boyfriend thinks I’m ugly.’ This is GONEWILD.” The amount of discussion the post has generated is astonishing. What’s the right way to go wild on Reddit? (/r/gonewild)
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When I was a kid, my stick-figure drawings looked like stick figures. This guy’s look like thousands of soldiers clashing violently in fantasy warfare. I would buy a book of these drawings. (/r/pics)
