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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We all know Reddit’s traffic has been explosive this year. The latest milestone? There are now more than 100,000 subreddits. (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Yesterday was a slow day on Reddit, enough so that possibly the most pointless question in the history of the Internet made it to /r/AskReddit‘s front page: “Do you wet your toothbrush before brushing your teeth?” (/r/AskReddit)
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With Secret Santa winding down and a Guinness world record broken, organizer and Reddit staff kickme444 does the classy thing: thanks his volunteer moderators with a front-page post (making sure to list them out in alphabetical order, of course). (/r/secretsanta)
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You may have heard that, back in the Middle Ages, people drank beer for nourishment, as water was unsafe. But with all that alcohol, shouldn’t they have gotten dehydrated? The place to ask that question, of course, is /r/askscience. (/r/askscience)
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An interesting AMA that got lost overnight: IAmA felon that spent time in federal prison after being convicted of using BitTorrent to commit online piracy. (/r/IAmA)
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Are you flying soon and finding yourself irrationally nervous? This thread and story should help you feel better: “A passenger could take a domestic flight every day for 36,000 years, on average, before dying in a crash.” (/r/science)
