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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As shots ring out across the Virginia Tech campus, students hole up in their dorm rooms. One of them takes to /r/IAmA, answering questions about the shooting live. (/r/IAmA)
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Reddit’s Android community are pulling out all the stops to help Google fight Apple’s patent lawsuits. One user has combed through Apple’s patents and old software to find flaws that invalidate the lawsuit. “HTC and google should give me free phones for life,” georedd writes. (/r/Android)
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Stanley Kubrick originally considered casting Robin Williams to play the lead role in The Shining. But after watching him in the weekly horror TV playhouse called “Mork and Mindy,” Kubrick decided Williams was too psychotic for the role. (/r/todayilearned)
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It’s Friday. The majority of the world’s drinking population needs to read this /r/askscience thread very carefully. “What is the best food to eat in anticipation of a night out drinking?” Short answer: Steak. (/r/askscience)
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There are new rules in /r/IAmA intended to reign in those obnoxious AMA requests that flood the subreddit on an almost daily basis. (/r/IAmA)
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Evidently, rats are empathetic creatures that help one another out in adorable ways. /r/science has proof and lots of anecdotal evidence, as you’d expect from scientists and wannabe scientists. “My rats have done things specifically to cheer me up when I’m depressed,” Sretsam says. But they do so much more, apparently. (/r/science)
