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This is a '''timeline of [[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]]''', an entertainment, [[wikipedia:social networking|social networking]], and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online [[wikipedia:bulletin board system|bulletin board system]].
 
This is a '''timeline of [[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]]''', an entertainment, [[wikipedia:social networking|social networking]], and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online [[wikipedia:bulletin board system|bulletin board system]].
  
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| 2012–2014 || Reddit achieves 37 billion pageviews in 2012, 56 billion pageviews in 2013, and 71.25 billion pageviews in 2014. [[wikipedia:Yishan Wong|Yishan Wong]] serves as Reddit's CEO from March 2012 to November 2014. Wong is replaced by [[wikipedia:Ellen Pao|Ellen Pao]] in November 2014. By September 2014, Reddit raises $50 million in funding in a [[wikipedia:Series B|Series B]] round, and makes its first app acquisition in October 2014.
 
| 2012–2014 || Reddit achieves 37 billion pageviews in 2012, 56 billion pageviews in 2013, and 71.25 billion pageviews in 2014. [[wikipedia:Yishan Wong|Yishan Wong]] serves as Reddit's CEO from March 2012 to November 2014. Wong is replaced by [[wikipedia:Ellen Pao|Ellen Pao]] in November 2014. By September 2014, Reddit raises $50 million in funding in a [[wikipedia:Series B|Series B]] round, and makes its first app acquisition in October 2014.
 
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| 2014–2016 || On July 10, 2015 Pao resigned as CEO and was replaced by Reddit cofounder [[wikipedia:Steve Huffman|Steve Huffman]].
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| 2014–2016 || On July 10, 2015 Pao resignes as CEO and is replaced by Reddit cofounder [[wikipedia:Steve Huffman|Steve Huffman]].
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| 2017 || Reddit adds more {{w|social network}} features to go with user profile pages, including the ability to follow other users and location tagging.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Quesenberry |first1=Keith A. |title=Social Media Strategy: Marketing, Advertising, and Public Relations in the Consumer Revolution |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=SsFeDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA186&lpg=PA186&dq=%22in+2017+reddit%22&source=bl&ots=uPGFp3x0b_&sig=ACfU3U05DFESzRizTwtkcXydZrpOZBgJ9Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-trjgkufkAhWIGLkGHcUyALU4ChDoATAKegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=%22in%202017%20reddit%22&f=false}}</ref> Throughout the year, the site receives approximately 542 million monthly visitors, including 234 million unique visitors, which makes Reddit it the 7th most visited website in the United States, and 22nd in the world.<ref name="Leveraging Reddit for Paid and Organic Advertising.">{{cite web |title=Leveraging Reddit for Paid and Organic Advertising. |url=https://www.treefrog.ca/leveraging-reddit-for-organic-and-paid-advertising |website=treefrog.ca |accessdate=23 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || Reddit surpasses {{w|Facebook}} to become the 3rd most visited website in the United States for a few months.<ref>{{cite web |title=REDDIT: THE FRONT PAGE OF THE INTERNET |url=https://carve.social/insights/reddit-the-front-page-of-the-internet/ |website=carve.social |accessdate=23 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 2001 || November || Competition || {{w|StumbleUpon}} is founded as a discovery and advertisement engine that pushes web content recommendations to its users.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of StumbleUpon |url=https://www.distilled.net/blog/infographics/history-of-stumbleupon-from-startup-to-influential-social-media-network-site-infographic/ |website=distilled.net |accessdate=6 September 2019}}</ref> It would be shut down in June 2018, and Reddit would be considered its best successor.<ref>{{cite web |title=5 StumbleUpon Alternative Sites That Still Work to Pass Time |url=https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/stumbleupon-alternatives/ |website=makeuseof.com |accessdate=6 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 2003 || October 1 || Competition || {{w|imageboard}} website {{w|4chan}} is launched.<ref name="chiel">{{cite web |last1=Chiel |first1=Ethan |title=Meet the man keeping 8chan, the world's most vile website, alive |url=https://splinternews.com/meet-the-man-keeping-8chan-the-worlds-most-vile-websit-1793856249 |website=splinternews.com |accessdate=23 September 2019}}</ref> 
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| 2004 || November || Competition || {{w|Digg}} is founded as a {{w|news aggregator}}. Its popularity would prompt the creation of similar {{w|social networking}} sites with story submission and voting systems such as {{w|Reddit}}.<ref>{{cite web|first=Pat |last=McCarthy |url=http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2006/09/10/revisiting-top-10-web-predictions-of-2006/ |title=Revisiting Top 10 Web Predictions of 2006 |publisher=Conversionrater.com |date=September 10, 2006 |accessdate=6 September 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2005 || June || Company || Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by [[wikipedia:Steve Huffman|Steve Huffman]] and [[wikipedia:Alexis Ohanian|Alexis Ohanian]]. It raises $100k in [[wikipedia:seed funding|seed funding]] from [[wikipedia:Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]].<ref name="mashable">{{cite web |url=http://mashable.com/2014/12/03/history-of-reddit/ |title=Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of Reddit |newspaper=Mashable.com |date= December 3, 2014 |author= Seth Fiegerman |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref>
 
| 2005 || June || Company || Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by [[wikipedia:Steve Huffman|Steve Huffman]] and [[wikipedia:Alexis Ohanian|Alexis Ohanian]]. It raises $100k in [[wikipedia:seed funding|seed funding]] from [[wikipedia:Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]].<ref name="mashable">{{cite web |url=http://mashable.com/2014/12/03/history-of-reddit/ |title=Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of Reddit |newspaper=Mashable.com |date= December 3, 2014 |author= Seth Fiegerman |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2009 || January || Community || One of the most popular subreddits, "IAmA" (I am a), is created. Many famous people would proceed to participate in AmAs (Ask me Anything) from the community.<ref name="MyUser_Theatlantic.com_May_24_2015c">{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/ama-how-a-weird-internet-thing-became-a-mainstream-delight/282860/ |title=AMA: How a Weird Internet Thing Became a Mainstream Delight – The Atlantic |newspaper=Theatlantic.com |date= January 2014 |author=Alexis C. Madrigal |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref>
 
| 2009 || January || Community || One of the most popular subreddits, "IAmA" (I am a), is created. Many famous people would proceed to participate in AmAs (Ask me Anything) from the community.<ref name="MyUser_Theatlantic.com_May_24_2015c">{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/ama-how-a-weird-internet-thing-became-a-mainstream-delight/282860/ |title=AMA: How a Weird Internet Thing Became a Mainstream Delight – The Atlantic |newspaper=Theatlantic.com |date= January 2014 |author=Alexis C. Madrigal |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2009 || February 23 || Competition || {{w|Imgur}} is launched as an image-host by a Redditor seeking an easy way to share photos to Reddit. Imgur is developed to be the de facto image hosting service for Reddit.<ref name="The Decline of Imgur on Reddit">{{cite web |title=The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting |url=https://minimaxir.com/2017/06/imgur-decline/ |website=minimaxir.com |accessdate=5 September 2019}}</ref>
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<ref>{{cite web |last1=Koebler |first1=Jason |title=The Cold War Between Reddit and Imgur Has Officially Begun |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pgk3p8/the-cold-war-between-reddit-and-imgur-has-officially-begun |website=vice.com |accessdate=5 September 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2009 || October || Team || [[wikipedia:Alexis Ohanian|Alexis Ohanian]] and [[wikipedia:Steve Huffman|Steve Huffman]] leave reddit. [[wikipedia:Steve Huffman|Steve Huffman]] helps form [[wikipedia:Hipmunk|Hipmunk]], and Alexis helps form [[wikipedia:Breadpig|Breadpig]].<ref name="departure.com_May_24_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.redditblog.com/2009/10/fare-thee-well-reddit.html |title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: Fare Thee Well, reddit! |newspaper=Redditblog.com |date= October 2009 |author= Alexis Ohanian |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="MyUser_Techcrunch5">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/reddit-cofounder-alexis-ohanian-to-join-y-combinator/ |title=Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |date= September 1, 2010|author= Michael Arrington|accessdate= May 29, 2015}}</ref>
 
| 2009 || October || Team || [[wikipedia:Alexis Ohanian|Alexis Ohanian]] and [[wikipedia:Steve Huffman|Steve Huffman]] leave reddit. [[wikipedia:Steve Huffman|Steve Huffman]] helps form [[wikipedia:Hipmunk|Hipmunk]], and Alexis helps form [[wikipedia:Breadpig|Breadpig]].<ref name="departure.com_May_24_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.redditblog.com/2009/10/fare-thee-well-reddit.html |title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: Fare Thee Well, reddit! |newspaper=Redditblog.com |date= October 2009 |author= Alexis Ohanian |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="MyUser_Techcrunch5">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/reddit-cofounder-alexis-ohanian-to-join-y-combinator/ |title=Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |date= September 1, 2010|author= Michael Arrington|accessdate= May 29, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|April 28}} || || The Reddit serial killer hoax is perpetrated by class members of "[[wikipedia:George Mason University's historical hoaxes|Lying about the past]]", a course taught at [[wikipedia:George Mason University|George Mason University]] by T. Mills Kelly. The hoax{{snd}}about an alleged serial killer named Joseph Scafe{{snd}}is first debunked in just over an hour after being launched on [[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]].<ref name="Atlantic">{{cite news |title=How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit |author=Yoni Appelbaum |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/ |newspaper=[[wikipedia:The Atlantic|The Atlantic]] |date=May 15, 2012 |accessdate=May 17, 2012}}</ref><ref name=HatesRedditors>{{cite web | url=http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sxkig/opinions_please_reddit_do_you_think_my_uncle_joe/c4htt9n |title=HatesRedditors comments on Opinions: "Please, Reddit. Do you think my 'Uncle' Joe was just weird or possibly a serial killer?" |publisher=Reddit.com |date=2012-04-28 |accessdate=2012-07-20}}</ref>
 
| 2012 || {{dts|April 28}} || || The Reddit serial killer hoax is perpetrated by class members of "[[wikipedia:George Mason University's historical hoaxes|Lying about the past]]", a course taught at [[wikipedia:George Mason University|George Mason University]] by T. Mills Kelly. The hoax{{snd}}about an alleged serial killer named Joseph Scafe{{snd}}is first debunked in just over an hour after being launched on [[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]].<ref name="Atlantic">{{cite news |title=How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit |author=Yoni Appelbaum |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/ |newspaper=[[wikipedia:The Atlantic|The Atlantic]] |date=May 15, 2012 |accessdate=May 17, 2012}}</ref><ref name=HatesRedditors>{{cite web | url=http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sxkig/opinions_please_reddit_do_you_think_my_uncle_joe/c4htt9n |title=HatesRedditors comments on Opinions: "Please, Reddit. Do you think my 'Uncle' Joe was just weird or possibly a serial killer?" |publisher=Reddit.com |date=2012-04-28 |accessdate=2012-07-20}}</ref>
 
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| 2012 || August|| Community, Publicity || [[wikipedia:Barack Obama|Barack Obama]] does an AmA on Reddit. The increased traffic shut down much of the site.<ref name="obama">{{cite web |url=http://www.redditblog.com/2012/08/potus-iama-stats.html |title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: POTUS IAMA Stats |newspaper=Redditblog.com |date= August 2012 |author= reddit admins |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="MyUser_The_Guardian_May_29_2015c">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/us-news-blog/2012/aug/29/barack-obama-ask-me-anything-reddit |title=Barack Obama surprises internet with Ask Me Anything session on Reddit |newspaper=The Guardian |date= August 29, 2012 |author=Katie Rogers |accessdate= May 29, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2012 || August || Community, Publicity || [[wikipedia:Barack Obama|Barack Obama]] does an AmA on Reddit. The increased traffic shut down much of the site.<ref name="obama">{{cite web |url=http://www.redditblog.com/2012/08/potus-iama-stats.html |title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: POTUS IAMA Stats |newspaper=Redditblog.com |date= August 2012 |author= reddit admins |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="MyUser_The_Guardian_May_29_2015c">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/us-news-blog/2012/aug/29/barack-obama-ask-me-anything-reddit |title=Barack Obama surprises internet with Ask Me Anything session on Reddit |newspaper=The Guardian |date= August 29, 2012 |author=Katie Rogers |accessdate= May 29, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2012 || October || Censorship || Reddit shuts down "CreepShots", a subreddit dedicated to photos of women taken without their permission in public places, including so-called ‘upskirt’ shots.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/>
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| 2013 || February || Competition || Online database and search engine {{w|Giphy}} is founded. The site is source of many {{w|GIF}}s shared on Reddit.<ref>{{cite web |title=Meet Giphy, a GIF-lover’s new best friend |url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/giphy-gif-search-review/ |website=dailydot.com |accessdate=23 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=New GIF Search Engine ‘Giphy’ Sees 30K Visitors In First Weekend |url=https://talkingpointsmemo.com/idealab/new-gif-search-engine-giphy-sees-30k-visitors-in-first-weekend |website=talkingpointsmemo.com |accessdate=23 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WEBBYS x GREY GOOSE: ALEX CHUNG OF GIPHY - FINAL |url=https://vimeo.com/126960533 |website=vimeo.com |accessdate=23 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || March || Product (advertising) || Reddit starts using Adzerk for ad serving. This replaces DFP for serving external ads, and replaces Reddit's in-house ad management system for native advertising.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/1aqp5c/quick_update_about_ads_on_reddit/|title = Quick update about ads on reddit|publisher = [[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]]|date = March 21, 2013|accessdate = April 7, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/30/how-adzerk-made-it-big-by-hitching-their-wagon-to-reddit/|title = How Adzerk Made It Big (With Reddit’s Help)|last = Biggs|first = John|date = May 30, 2013|accessdate = April 7, 2017|publisher = ''[[wikipedia:TechCrunch|TechCrunch]]''}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://adzerk.com/blog/2014/04/why-reddit-built-their-advertising-system-on-the-adzerk-platform/|title = Why Reddit Built Their Advertising System On The Adzerk Platform|date = April 17, 2014|accessdate = April 7, 2017|publisher = Adzerk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://moz.com/blog/the-advertisers-guide-to-surviving-reddit|title = The Advertiser's Guide To Surviving Reddit|last = Coraggio|first = Anthony|date = April 28, 2014|accessdate = April 7, 2017|publisher = Moz}}</ref>
 
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| 2013 || April || Community, Publicity || Members of subreddit "findbostonbombers" wrongly identify a number of people as suspects in the Boston Bombings, including a missing [[wikipedia:Brown University|Brown University]] student.<ref name="MyUser_Businessinsider.com_May_24_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-falsely-accuses-sunil-tripathi-of-boston-bombing-2013-7 |title=Reddit Wrongly Accuses Sunil Tripathi of Boston Bombing – Business Insider |newspaper=Businessinsider.com |date= July 2013 |author=Alyson Shontell |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref>
 
| 2013 || April || Community, Publicity || Members of subreddit "findbostonbombers" wrongly identify a number of people as suspects in the Boston Bombings, including a missing [[wikipedia:Brown University|Brown University]] student.<ref name="MyUser_Businessinsider.com_May_24_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-falsely-accuses-sunil-tripathi-of-boston-bombing-2013-7 |title=Reddit Wrongly Accuses Sunil Tripathi of Boston Bombing – Business Insider |newspaper=Businessinsider.com |date= July 2013 |author=Alyson Shontell |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2014 || November || Team || [[wikipedia:Yishan Wong|Yishan Wong]] resigns as Reddit CEO. [[wikipedia:Ellen Pao|Ellen Pao]] becomes interim CEO and cofounder [[wikipedia:Alexis Ohanian|Alexis Ohanian]] returns to Reddit and becomes executive chairman.<ref name="ellenpao">{{cite web |url=http://www.redditblog.com/2014/11/coming-home.html |title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: Coming home |newspaper=Redditblog.com |date= November 2014 |author= [[wikipedia:Alexis Ohanian|Alexis Ohanian]] |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Techcrunch2">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/reddit-ceo-resigns-alexis-ohanian-returns-as-chairman/ |title=Reddit CEO Resigns, Alexis Ohanian Returns As Chairman |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |date= September 11, 2014 |author= [[wikipedia:Alexia Tsotsis|Alexia Tsotsis]] |accessdate= May 29, 2015}}</ref>
 
| 2014 || November || Team || [[wikipedia:Yishan Wong|Yishan Wong]] resigns as Reddit CEO. [[wikipedia:Ellen Pao|Ellen Pao]] becomes interim CEO and cofounder [[wikipedia:Alexis Ohanian|Alexis Ohanian]] returns to Reddit and becomes executive chairman.<ref name="ellenpao">{{cite web |url=http://www.redditblog.com/2014/11/coming-home.html |title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: Coming home |newspaper=Redditblog.com |date= November 2014 |author= [[wikipedia:Alexis Ohanian|Alexis Ohanian]] |accessdate= May 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Techcrunch2">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/reddit-ceo-resigns-alexis-ohanian-returns-as-chairman/ |title=Reddit CEO Resigns, Alexis Ohanian Returns As Chairman |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |date= September 11, 2014 |author= [[wikipedia:Alexia Tsotsis|Alexia Tsotsis]] |accessdate= May 29, 2015}}</ref>
 
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| 2014 || {{dts|December 18}} || Community || Reddit takes the unusual step of banning a subreddit; it bans "SonyGOP", which was being used to distribute [[wikipedia:Sony Pictures Entertainment hack|hacked Sony files]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Goldman|first1=David|title=Reddit takes down Sony hack forum|url=http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/17/technology/security/reddit-sony-hack-forum-ban/|accessdate=4 January 2015|date=December 29, 2014}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{dts|December 18}} || Censorship || Reddit takes the unusual step of banning a subreddit; it bans "SonyGOP", which was being used to distribute [[wikipedia:Sony Pictures Entertainment hack|hacked Sony files]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Goldman|first1=David|title=Reddit takes down Sony hack forum|url=http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/17/technology/security/reddit-sony-hack-forum-ban/|accessdate=4 January 2015|date=December 29, 2014}}</ref>
 
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| 2015 || {{dts|April 1}} || Community || [[wikipedia:The Button (Reddit)|The Button]], a social experiment, is introduced in a post to the official Reddit blog.<ref name="Introductionpost">{{cite web|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html||title=Introduction of the button|website=[[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]]|access-date=7 June 2015}}</ref>
 
| 2015 || {{dts|April 1}} || Community || [[wikipedia:The Button (Reddit)|The Button]], a social experiment, is introduced in a post to the official Reddit blog.<ref name="Introductionpost">{{cite web|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html||title=Introduction of the button|website=[[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]]|access-date=7 June 2015}}</ref>
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| 2015 || May || Product || Reddit announces Reddit Video.<ref name="Techcrunch3">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian-announces-reddit-video-at-disrupt-ny/ |title=Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Announces Reddit Video at Disrupt NY |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |date= May 6, 2015 |author= Ryan Lawler |accessdate= May 29, 2015}}</ref>
 
| 2015 || May || Product || Reddit announces Reddit Video.<ref name="Techcrunch3">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian-announces-reddit-video-at-disrupt-ny/ |title=Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Announces Reddit Video at Disrupt NY |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |date= May 6, 2015 |author= Ryan Lawler |accessdate= May 29, 2015}}</ref>
 
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| 2015 || {{dts|June 10}} || Community || Reddit bans five subreddits, citing an anti-harassment policy.<ref name=verge>{{cite web|last1=Robertson|first1=Adi|title=Reddit bans 'Fat People Hate' and other subreddits under new harassment rules|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/10/8761763/reddit-harassment-ban-fat-people-hate-subreddit|publisher=The Verge|accessdate=10 June 2015|ref=verge}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=THE ASSOCIATED PRESS|title=Reddit Removes 5 Groups After Creating Harassment Policy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/10/business/ap-us-reddit-subreddit-bans.html?_r=0|website=Business Day|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=10 June 2015}}</ref> The largest of the banned subreddits, "fatpeoplehate," had an estimated 151,000 subscribers at the times of its banning.<ref name=verge /> The other four subreddits are "hamplanethatred," "transfags," "neofag," and "shitniggerssay."<ref name=verge />
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| 2015 || {{dts|June 10}} || Censorship || Reddit bans five subreddits, citing an anti-harassment policy.<ref name=verge>{{cite web|last1=Robertson|first1=Adi|title=Reddit bans 'Fat People Hate' and other subreddits under new harassment rules|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/10/8761763/reddit-harassment-ban-fat-people-hate-subreddit|publisher=The Verge|accessdate=10 June 2015|ref=verge}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=THE ASSOCIATED PRESS|title=Reddit Removes 5 Groups After Creating Harassment Policy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/10/business/ap-us-reddit-subreddit-bans.html?_r=0|website=Business Day|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=10 June 2015}}</ref> The largest of the banned subreddits, "fatpeoplehate," had an estimated 151,000 subscribers at the times of its banning.<ref name=verge /> The other four subreddits are "hamplanethatred," "transfags," "neofag," and "shitniggerssay."<ref name=verge />
 
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| 2015 || {{dts|June 27}} || Community || [[wikipedia:/r/The_Donald|/r/The_Donald]] is created.
 
| 2015 || {{dts|June 27}} || Community || [[wikipedia:/r/The_Donald|/r/The_Donald]] is created.
 
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| 2015 || June–July || Team || Reddit bans multiple subreddits and fires Victoria Taylor, the site's director of talent, who has served on the Reddit team since 2013. Taylor served as a liaison between the moderators of specific subreddits (such as IAmA) and Reddit itself, helping organize and verify interviewees for Reddit's user-led "AmA" sessions. As a result of this and other frustrations with Reddit—such as its moderation tools and its new conduct under Pao—numerous subreddits (such as IAmA, todayilearned, pics and science) temporarily shut themselves down in protest.<ref name="Wired.com_July_3_2015c">{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2015/07/reddit-amageddon/ |title=Reddit Is Revolting |newspaper=Wired.com |author=Wired Staff |accessdate= July 3, 2015}}</ref> Subsequently to these and other recent events a petition asking Pao to step down as CEO reaches over 160,000 signatures.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sifferlin|first1=Alexandra|title=More Than 160,000 Sign Petition for Reddit Chief's Ouster|url=http://time.com/3946626/ellen-pao-reddit-petition/|publisher=TIME|accessdate=July 6, 2015|date=July 6, 2015}}</ref> On July 10, 2015, Pao resigns and is replaced by cofounder Steve Huffman as CEO.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Ellen Pao Resigns as Reddit Interim CEO After User Revolt|url = https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-10/ellen-pao-resigns-as-reddit-interim-ceo-after-user-revolt|website = Bloomberg.com|accessdate = 2015-07-10|first = Eric|last = Newcomer}}</ref>
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| 2015 || June–July || Censorship || Reddit bans multiple subreddits and fires Victoria Taylor, the site's director of talent, who has served on the Reddit team since 2013. Taylor served as a liaison between the moderators of specific subreddits (such as IAmA) and Reddit itself, helping organize and verify interviewees for Reddit's user-led "AmA" sessions. As a result of this and other frustrations with Reddit—such as its moderation tools and its new conduct under Pao—numerous subreddits (such as IAmA, todayilearned, pics and science) temporarily shut themselves down in protest.<ref name="Wired.com_July_3_2015c">{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2015/07/reddit-amageddon/ |title=Reddit Is Revolting |newspaper=Wired.com |author=Wired Staff |accessdate= July 3, 2015}}</ref> Subsequently to these and other recent events a petition asking Pao to step down as CEO reaches over 160,000 signatures.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sifferlin|first1=Alexandra|title=More Than 160,000 Sign Petition for Reddit Chief's Ouster|url=http://time.com/3946626/ellen-pao-reddit-petition/|publisher=TIME|accessdate=July 6, 2015|date=July 6, 2015}}</ref> On July 10, 2015, Pao resigns and is replaced by cofounder Steve Huffman as CEO.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Ellen Pao Resigns as Reddit Interim CEO After User Revolt|url = https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-10/ellen-pao-resigns-as-reddit-interim-ceo-after-user-revolt|website = Bloomberg.com|accessdate = 2015-07-10|first = Eric|last = Newcomer}}</ref>
 
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| 2015 || August 18 || Team || Reddit hires Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer at [[wikipedia:Pinterest|Pinterest]], as its first [[wikipedia:Chief Technology Officer|Chief Technology Officer]].<ref>{{cite web|url = http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/18/reddit-names-marty-weiner-founding-engineer-at-pinterest-its-first-cto/|title = Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO|last = Olanoff|first = Drew|date = August 18, 2015|accessdate = October 18, 2015|publisher = ''[[wikipedia:TechCrunch|TechCrunch]]''}}</ref>
 
| 2015 || August 18 || Team || Reddit hires Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer at [[wikipedia:Pinterest|Pinterest]], as its first [[wikipedia:Chief Technology Officer|Chief Technology Officer]].<ref>{{cite web|url = http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/18/reddit-names-marty-weiner-founding-engineer-at-pinterest-its-first-cto/|title = Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO|last = Olanoff|first = Drew|date = August 18, 2015|accessdate = October 18, 2015|publisher = ''[[wikipedia:TechCrunch|TechCrunch]]''}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|December 15}} || Product || Reddit announces that it is shutting down reddit.tv.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/3wyuc7/reddit_change_shutting_down_reddittv/ |publisher=reddit |title=[reddit change] Shutting down reddit.tv • r/changelog |accessdate=March 3, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2015 || {{dts|December 15}} || Product || Reddit announces that it is shutting down reddit.tv.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/3wyuc7/reddit_change_shutting_down_reddittv/ |publisher=reddit |title=[reddit change] Shutting down reddit.tv • r/changelog |accessdate=March 3, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || April || Product || In April 2016, Reddit launches a new blocking tool in an attempt to curb [[wikipedia:online harassment|online harassment]]. The tool allows a user to hide posts and comments from selected redditors in addition to blocking private messages from those redditors.<ref>{{cite web|title= Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Temper Harassment|url=http://www.hngn.com/articles/195447/20160406/reddit-launches-blocking-tool-fight-trolling-harassment.htm}}</ref> The option to block a redditor is done by clicking a button in the inbox.
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| 2016 || April || Product || Reddit launches a new blocking tool in an attempt to curb [[wikipedia:online harassment|online harassment]]. The tool allows a user to hide posts and comments from selected redditors in addition to blocking private messages from those redditors.<ref>{{cite web|title= Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Temper Harassment|url=http://www.hngn.com/articles/195447/20160406/reddit-launches-blocking-tool-fight-trolling-harassment.htm}}</ref> The option to block a redditor is done by clicking a button in the inbox.
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|May}} || Controversy || Reddit CEO [[wikipedia:Steve Huffman|Steve Huffman]] says on an interview at the TNW Conference that, unlike [[wikipedia:Facebook|Facebook]], which "only knows what [its users are] willing to declare publicly", Reddit knows its users' "dark secrets"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2016/05/30/reddit-knows-your-dark-secrets/|publisher=The Next Web (TNW)|date=30 May 2016|title=Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: ‘We know your dark secrets. We know everything.’|author=Boris van Zanten}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/reddit-ceo-tells-users-we-8082550|title=Reddit CEO tells users 'we know your dark secrets' as he strikes fear into web surfers|publisher=Mirror|date=30 May 2016|author=Jessica Haworth}}</ref><ref name="dna">{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-says-we-know-your-dark-secrets-2218420|publisher=Daily News and Analysis|date=31 May 2016|title=Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says, "We know your dark secrets"}}</ref> at the same time that the website's "values" page is updated in regards to its "privacy" section. The video reaches the top of the website's main feed.<ref name="dna"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4lmfmj/ceo_of_reddit_steve_huffman_about_advertising_on/|title=CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, about advertising on Reddit: "We know all of your interests. Not only just your interests you are willing to declare publicly on Facebook - we know your dark secrets, we know everything" (TNW Conference, 26 May) (27,500 votes)|date=29 May 2016|publisher=Reddit}}</ref> Shortly thereafter, announcements concerning new advertisement content would draw criticism on the website.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4upf11/new_ad_type_promoted_user_posts/|title=New Ad Type: Promoted User Posts|publisher=Reddit (official announcement)|date=26 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4phzsi/sponsored_headline_tests_placement_and_design/|title=Sponsored headline tests: placement and design|publisher=Reddit (official announcement)}}</ref>
 
| 2016 || {{dts|May}} || Controversy || Reddit CEO [[wikipedia:Steve Huffman|Steve Huffman]] says on an interview at the TNW Conference that, unlike [[wikipedia:Facebook|Facebook]], which "only knows what [its users are] willing to declare publicly", Reddit knows its users' "dark secrets"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2016/05/30/reddit-knows-your-dark-secrets/|publisher=The Next Web (TNW)|date=30 May 2016|title=Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: ‘We know your dark secrets. We know everything.’|author=Boris van Zanten}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/reddit-ceo-tells-users-we-8082550|title=Reddit CEO tells users 'we know your dark secrets' as he strikes fear into web surfers|publisher=Mirror|date=30 May 2016|author=Jessica Haworth}}</ref><ref name="dna">{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-says-we-know-your-dark-secrets-2218420|publisher=Daily News and Analysis|date=31 May 2016|title=Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says, "We know your dark secrets"}}</ref> at the same time that the website's "values" page is updated in regards to its "privacy" section. The video reaches the top of the website's main feed.<ref name="dna"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4lmfmj/ceo_of_reddit_steve_huffman_about_advertising_on/|title=CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, about advertising on Reddit: "We know all of your interests. Not only just your interests you are willing to declare publicly on Facebook - we know your dark secrets, we know everything" (TNW Conference, 26 May) (27,500 votes)|date=29 May 2016|publisher=Reddit}}</ref> Shortly thereafter, announcements concerning new advertisement content would draw criticism on the website.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4upf11/new_ad_type_promoted_user_posts/|title=New Ad Type: Promoted User Posts|publisher=Reddit (official announcement)|date=26 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4phzsi/sponsored_headline_tests_placement_and_design/|title=Sponsored headline tests: placement and design|publisher=Reddit (official announcement)}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|November 23}} || || A member of a subreddit dedicated to [[wikipedia:Donald Trump|Donald Trump]], [[wikipedia:/r/The_Donald|/r/The_Donald]], posts evidence indicating that Reddit administrators had modified multiple user comments inside the subreddit.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Menegus|first1=Bryan|title=Reddit CEO Caught Secretly Editing User Comments, Chatlogs Leaked [Update]|url=http://gizmodo.com/reddit-ceo-caught-secretly-editing-user-comments-chatl-1789342358|accessdate=24 November 2016|work=Gizmodo|date=24 November 2016}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|May 25}} || Product || Reddit launches an image host for submissions to the site, allowing users for the first time to upload images. The release would cause {{w|Imgur}} submission activity to abruptly drop, as the latter was used by Reddit users as an image hosting website.<ref name="The Decline of Imgur on Reddit"/>
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| 2016 || {{dts|November 23}} || Community || A member of a subreddit dedicated to [[wikipedia:Donald Trump|Donald Trump]], [[wikipedia:/r/The_Donald|/r/The_Donald]] posts evidence indicating that Reddit administrators had modified multiple user comments inside the subreddit.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Menegus|first1=Bryan|title=Reddit CEO Caught Secretly Editing User Comments, Chatlogs Leaked [Update]|url=http://gizmodo.com/reddit-ceo-caught-secretly-editing-user-comments-chatl-1789342358|accessdate=24 November 2016|work=Gizmodo|date=24 November 2016}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|November 24}} || Censorship || ''[[wikipedia:The Washington Post|The Washington Post]]'' reports Reddit has banned the "[[wikipedia:Pizzagate conspiracy theory|Pizzagate]]" conspiracy board from their site stating it violated their policy of posting personal information of others, triggering a wave of criticism from users on [[wikipedia:r/The_Donald|r/The_Donald]], a popular pro-[[wikipedia:Donald Trump|Trump]] subreddit, who felt the ban amounted to censorship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/23/fearing-yet-another-witch-hunt-reddit-bans-pizzagate/|title=Fearing yet another witch hunt, Reddit bans ‘Pizzagate’|last=Ohlheiser|first=Abby|date=November 24, 2016|website=Washington Post|access-date=November 24, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|February}} || Censorship || Reddit bans the [[wikipedia:altright|altright]] forum for violating its terms of service, more specifically for attempting to share personal information about the man who attacked alt-right figure Richard Spencer.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/reddit-bans-alt-right-subreddit/|title=Reddit shuts down 'alt-right' subreddit|newspaper=CNET|access-date=2017-02-15|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/01/reddit-bans-alt-right-group.html|title=Reddit Bans Alt-Right Group|last=Resnick|first=Gideon|date=2017-02-02|website=The Daily Beast|access-date=2017-02-15}}</ref> The forum's users and moderators accuse Reddit administrators of having political motivations for the ban.<ref>{{cite news|title=Reddit bans a major alt-right community — and there may be a very good reason|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/why-reddit-banned-alt-right-2017-2|newspaper=Business Insider}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/02/reddit-bans-far-right-groups-altright-alternativeright|title=Reddit bans far-right groups altright and alternativeright|last=Hern|first=Alex|date=2017-02-02|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2017-02-15|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|March 22}} || Product || Reddit introduces profile pages for content creators, enabling users to start threads directly on their profile, which they can moderate themselves. Other users can follow the profiles as they would a subreddit.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit adds user profiles to morph into a real social network |url=https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2017/03/21/reddit-adds-user-profiles-morph-real-social-network/ |website=thenextweb.com |accessdate=24 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Parrack |first1=Dave |title=Reddit Adds Profile Pages to Be More Like Facebook |url=https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reddit-adds-profile-pages/ |website=makeuseof.com |accessdate=24 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit hopes new social features will keep the trolls in line |url=https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/21/reddit-new-social-features-profile-redesign/ |website=engadget.com |accessdate=24 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Introduces Profile Pages for Content Creators |url=https://www.inverse.com/article/29358-reddit-introduces-profile-pages-for-content-creators |website=inverse.com |accessdate=24 August 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|November 24}} || Community || ''[[wikipedia:The Washington Post|The Washington Post]]'' reports Reddit has banned the "[[wikipedia:Pizzagate conspiracy theory|Pizzagate]]" conspiracy board from their site stating it violated their policy of posting personal information of others, triggering a wave of criticism from users on [[wikipedia:r/The_Donald|r/The_Donald]], a popular pro-[[wikipedia:Donald Trump|Trump]] subreddit, who felt the ban amounted to censorship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/23/fearing-yet-another-witch-hunt-reddit-bans-pizzagate/|title=Fearing yet another witch hunt, Reddit bans ‘Pizzagate’|last=Ohlheiser|first=Abby|date=November 24, 2016|website=Washington Post|access-date=November 24, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|June 16}} || Company || {{w|Bloomberg}} reports on Reddit looking for more funding, and aiming for a US$1.7 billion valuation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Reportedly Looking to Raise $150 Million at a $1.7 Billion Valuation |url=https://www.inc.com/business-insider/reddit-wants-to-raise-150-million-at-17-billion-valuation.html |website=inc.com |accessdate=24 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Chapman |first1=Lizette |title=Reddit Is Raising Funds Valuing Startup at $1.7 Billion |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-17/reddit-said-to-be-raising-funds-valuing-startup-at-1-7-billion |website=bloomberg.com |accessdate=24 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|August 18}} || Product || Reddit launches its own native video hosting across both desktop and mobile, allowing users to upload videos directly to Reddit instead of relying on third-party services (such as {{w|Youtube}}).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Perez |first1=Sarah |title=Reddit rolls out its own video platform |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/17/reddit-rolls-out-its-own-video-platform/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Parrack |first1=Dave |title=TECH NEWS  SOCIAL MEDIA You Can Now Upload Videos Directly to Reddit |url=https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/upload-videos-directly-reddit/ |website=makeuseof.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Shaul |first1=Brandy |title=Reddit Rolls Out Native Video on Desktop, Mobile |url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/reddit-rolls-out-native-video-on-desktop-mobile/ |website=adweek.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|October 26}} || Policy || Reddit announces a new policy banning content that incites violence. Several extremist forums are closed down after the update, including r/NationalSocialism, r/Nazi, r/whitesarecriminals and r/far_right. Reddit's new policy says: "Do not post content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people."<ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit conducts wide-ranging purge of offensive subreddits |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/reddit-conducts-wide-ranging-purge-of-offensive-subreddits/ |website=arstechnica.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=REDDIT BANS NEO-NAZI AND EUROPEAN NATIONALIST SUBREDDITS (AGAIN) |url=https://www.newsweek.com/reddit-subreddit-ban-neo-nazi-693225 |website=newsweek.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Nazi forums closed as Reddit purges 'violent content' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41760968 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Nazi Groups Kicked Off Reddit as Next Wave of Community Bans Begins [Update] |url=https://gizmodo.com/reddits-next-wave-of-community-bans-starts-today-1819849813 |website=gizmodo.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|November 9}} || Censorship || Reddit bans a controversial message board dedicated to "involuntarily celibate" men, known as "incels", a 41,000-strong community. Several posts in the board have previously condoned, advocated, or downplayed raping women, who were called "femoids" by Incel’s users.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bell |first1=Chris |title=Reddit bans 'involuntarily celibate' community |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41926687 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Vanian |first1=Jonathan |title=Reddit Bans Controversial and Misogynistic ‘Incel’ Forum |url=https://fortune.com/2017/11/09/reddit-incel-misogyny-forum/ |website=fortune.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="telegraph.co.uk">{{cite web |title=Reddit bans message board where men blame women for their celibacy |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/09/reddit-bans-message-board-men-blame-women-celibacy/ |website=telegraph.co.uk |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|December 13}} || Partnership || Microsoft partners with Reddit in order to make subreddits more searchable with [[w:Bing (search engine)|Bing]]. The partnership is also expected open up opportunities for brands and marketers to take advantage of new business intelligence tools.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Peterson |first1=Tim |title=Microsoft adds Reddit data to Bing search results, Power BI analytics tool |url=https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-adds-reddit-data-bing-search-results-power-bi-analytics-tool-288306 |website=searchengineland.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Statt |first1=Nick |title=Microsoft is making subreddits more searchable with Bing |url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/13/16773822/microsoft-bing-reddit-search-engine-partnership-ama-subreddit-content |website=theverge.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bing joins Reddit in launching AI-powered search |url=https://www.gsmarena.com/bing_joins_hands_with_reddit_in_launching_aipowered_search-news-28723.php |website=gsmarena.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bing to Offer Unique Search Experiences for Reddit Content |url=https://www.searchenginejournal.com/bing-offer-unique-search-experiences-reddit-content/227855/#close |website=searchenginejournal.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|December 18}} || Product || Reddit announces a number of changes to its {{w|iOS}} and Android apps, including a new user-to-user chat function. Media consumption-focused app updates include how it handles photos, videos and GIFs, plus the addition of things like live comment feeds, in-app chat, and tools for moderators.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Statt |first1=Nick |title=Reddit overhauls mobile app with chat function and new moderation tools |url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/18/16788908/reddit-mobile-app-update-chat-mod-tools |website=theverge.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Perez |first1=Sarah |title=Reddit launches new mobile apps with support for real-time comments, chat, mod tools and more |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/18/reddit-launches-new-mobile-apps-with-support-for-real-time-comments-chat-mod-tools-and-more/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Peterson |first1=Tim |title=Reddit’s mobile apps now let people view only visual posts, block ads through in-app browser |url=https://marketingland.com/reddits-mobile-apps-now-let-people-view-visual-posts-block-ads-thru-app-browser-230505 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit app update brings more of the website to mobile |url=https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/18/reddit-app-update-more-website-to-mobile/ |website=engadget.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|January 25}} || Security || Reddit enables two-factor authentication (2FA), adding a second layer of security by prompting users to enter a 6-digit verification code generated by their phone after entering their password. The security tool works across desktop, mobile, and third-party apps.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ong |first1=Thuy |title=Reddit now offers two-factor authentication to all |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/25/16931572/reddit-two-factor-authentication |website=theverge.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Reddit |url=https://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-reddit-2fa,news-26522.html |website=tomsguide.com |accessdate=25 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|February 7}} || Censorship || Reddit shuts down r/deepfakes, a subreddit dedicated to creating fake porn videos using a {{w|machine learning}} algorithm.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Menegus |first1=Bryan |title=Reddit Bans AI-Powered Fake Porn |url=https://gizmodo.com/reddit-bans-ai-powered-fake-porn-1822808136 |website=gizmodo.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit finally banned the 'Deepfakes' subreddit, where face-swap porn thrived |url=https://mashable.com/2018/02/07/deep-fakes-reddit-ban/ |website=mashable.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Menegus |first1=Bryan |title=Reddit Bans AI-Powered Fake Porn |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neqb98/reddit-shuts-down-deepfakes |website=gizmodo.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kharpal |first1=Arjun |title=Reddit, Pornhub ban videos that use A.I. to superimpose a person’s face over an X-rated actor |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/reddit-pornhub-ban-deepfake-porn-videos.html |website=cnbc.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|March 5}} || Publicity || Reddit admits that Russian propaganda was used on its site during the {{w|2016 United States presidential election}} and removes suspicious accounts from its site.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit removes 'few hundred' Russian propaganda accounts from its site |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/reddit-removed-russian-propaganda-accounts-article-1.3857165 |website=nydailynews.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit admits hosting Russian propaganda |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43301643 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit admits it had a Russian troll problem during the election |url=https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/j5b3qy/reddit-admits-it-had-a-russian-troll-problem-during-the-election |website=vice.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit infiltrated by Russian propaganda in run-up to US election |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/06/reddit-russian-propaganda-us-election |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|March 14}} || Product || Reddit announces that it would be offering promoted posts in its native mobile apps, a feature similar to Facebook's. The company says its {{w|iOS}} and [[w:Android (operating system)|Android]] apps are now the most popular way for users to access Reddit content on mobile.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Csutoras |first1=Brent |title=Reddit Launches New Promoted Posts for Mobile |url=https://www.searchenginejournal.com/reddit-launches-promoted-posts-mobile/242757/#close |website=searchenginejournal.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Marvin |first1=Ginny |title=Reddit introduces native promoted post ads in its mobile apps |url=https://marketingland.com/reddit-introduces-native-promoted-post-ads-mobile-apps-235995 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Deahl |first1=Dani |title=Reddit is bringing promoted posts to its mobile apps |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/14/17121066/reddit-promoted-posts-mobile-app |website=theverge.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|March 21}} || Censorship || As part of an update to the company's content policies that prohibit transactions involving some goods and services, Reddit bans subreddits dedicated to dark web drug markets and selling guns, including r/GunDeals, r/GunsForSale and r/AKMarketplace.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Bans Subreddits Dedicated to Dark Web Drug Markets and Selling Guns |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne9v5k/reddit-bans-subreddits-dark-web-drug-markets-and-guns |website=vice.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit removes several firearms-related forums |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/reddit-removes-several-firearms-related-forums/ |website=cnet.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Bans Slew of Communities Amid New Rule Targeting Sales, Trades, and Giveaways |url=https://gizmodo.com/reddit-bans-slew-of-communities-amid-new-rule-targeting-1823961868 |website=gizmodo.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit user claims to be Austin bomber, compares himself to 'Zodiac Killer' and says he wants world to 'burn' |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/reddit-user-claims-austin-bomber-compares-zodiac-article-1.3886094 |website=nydailynews.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|April 11}} || Policy || Reddit co-founder and chief executive Steve Huffman says that racism is permitted on the platform and states: “On Reddit, the way in which we think about speech is to separate behavior from beliefs. This means on Reddit there will be people with beliefs different from your own, sometimes extremely so. When users actions conflict with our content policies, we take action.” Many users respond by pointing out that hate speech does constitute behavior in a way, and that communities like r/The_Donald directly participated in the conversation and organizing of events like the white supremacist rally that resulted in the {{w|Charlottesville car attack}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Statt |first1=Nick |title=Reddit CEO says racism is permitted on the platform, and users are up in arms |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17226416/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-racism-racist-slurs-are-okay |website=theverge.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title='Racism is fine on our site,' says Reddit's chief executive |url=https://news.sky.com/story/racism-is-fine-on-our-site-says-reddits-chief-executive-11327584 |website=news.sky.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Open racism and slurs are fine to post on Reddit, says CEO |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/12/racism-slurs-reddit-post-ceo-steve-huffman |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit CEO Admits He's Glad Not to Be in Mark Zuckerberg's Shoes |url=https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/reddit-ceo-says-hes-glad-not-to-be-mark-zuckerberg.html |website=inc.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref> 
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| 2018 || {{dts|April 30}} || Competition || {{w|Facebook}} announces testing for a new Reddit-like feature that lets users "upvote" or "downvote" comments, so results are based on popularity. The new feature is noted by Reddit co-founder {{w|Alexis Ohanian}}, who comments on the first round of testing in February, calling it the "sincerest form of flattery".<ref>{{cite web |title=FACEBOOK IS TESTING A REDDIT-LIKE FEATURE THAT WILL RADICALLY CHANGE COMMENTS |url=https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-testing-reddit-voting-feature-will-change-comments-forever-905573 |website=newsweek.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Facebook is testing out a new feature that feels very, very Reddit |url=https://mashable.com/2018/04/30/facebook-downvote/ |website=mashable.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Facebook rips off Reddit as it starts testing 'downvote' feature |url=https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3031338/facebook-rips-off-reddit-as-it-starts-testing-downvote-feature |website=theinquirer.net |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Facebook begins the rollout of its Reddit-like downvote button |url=https://www.techradar.com/news/facebook-begins-the-rollout-of-its-reddit-like-downvote-button |website=techradar.com |accessdate=27 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|May 30}} || Competition || Reddit overtakes {{w|Facebook}} as the third most popular website in the United States, behind {{w|Google}} and {{w|YouTube}}. It is reported that, on an average, users spend 15 minutes and 10 seconds on Reddit daily, in comparison to 10 minutes and 50 seconds on Facebook.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit just overtook Facebook as the third most popular website in the U.S. |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywebqj/reddit-just-overtook-facebook-as-the-third-most-popular-website-in-the-us |website=vice.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit beats Facebook to become third most popular platform in US |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/world/reddit-beats-facebook-third-popular-platform-us-1502642809.html |website=thestatesman.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Passes Facebook To Become Sixth-Most Visited Site in the World, Third in US |url=https://beebom.com/reddit-overtakes-facebook-as-the-third-most-visited-site-in-us-ranks-sixth-globally/ |website=beebom.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|June 6}} || Research || MIT researchers unveil "Norman", an {{w|artificial intelligence}} labeled a "psychopath," using disturbing image captions found on Reddit.' The project is reported to be a "case study on the dangers of artificial intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms." Researchers state that “Norman suffered from extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit, (...) and represents a case study on the dangers of artificial intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms.”<ref>{{cite web |title=MIT researchers use Reddit to create the first 'psychopath AI' |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/mit-researchers-use-reddit-to-create-the-first-psychopath-ai/ |website=cnet.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Terrifying: an artificial intelligence was fed Reddit captions. Now it's a 'psychopath' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/06/07/artificial-intelligence-fed-reddit-captions-became-psychopath/681888002/ |website=usatoday.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bad things happen when you train AI using ‘the darkest corners of Reddit’ |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/07/bad-things-happen-when-you-train-ai-using-the-darkest-corners-of-reddit/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=MIT scientists created a “psychopath” AI by feeding it violent content from Reddit |url=https://news.avclub.com/mit-scientists-created-a-psychopath-ai-by-feeding-it-1826623094 |website=news.avclub.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|June 12}} || Product || Reddit rolls out native autoplaying video ads across the site on mobile and desktop, further deepening the platform’s ways of putting brands in front of its audience. The new video ads are expected to look much like any video that is hosted on Reddit itself, including all the usual Reddit engagements like shares, comments, and saves.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Matney |first1=Lucas |title=Reddit brings autoplay native video ads to desktop and mobile |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/12/reddit-brings-autoplay-native-video-ads-to-desktop-and-mobile/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit and Twitter Are Creating New Video Ad Formats |url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/reddit-and-twitter-are-creating-new-video-ad-formats/ |website=adweek.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Grigonis |first1=Hillary K. |title=Reddit is rolling out video ads — and yes, they autoplay |url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/reddit-video-ads-announced/ |website=digitaltrends.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Gets Auto-Play Video Ads on Web and Mobile |url=https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/reddit-native-autoplay-ads-1202842212/ |website=variety.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|July 18}} || Product || Reddit launches real-time chatrooms for a handful of subreddits, letting moderators create channels for discussing topics that are as broad or specific as they like.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hatmaker |first1=Taylor |title=Reddit expands chat rooms to more subreddits |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/reddit-chat-rooms/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fingas |first1=Jon |title=Reddit steps back in time with live chat rooms |url=https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/18/reddit-real-time-chat-beta/ |website=engadget.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Reinvents the Chat Room With Community Chat |url=https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-introduces-subreddit-chat/ |website=wired.com |accessdate=28 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|August 1}} || Security || Reddit informs its users that a hacker broke into some of its systems and gained access to a variety of data, including user emails, source code, internal files, and “all Reddit data from 2007 and before.”  The hack is later known to be accomplished by circumventing the two-factor authentication Reddit had in place via SMS interception.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Liao |first1=Shannon |title=Reddit says hackers stole user data from 2007 and earlier in security breach |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/1/17639930/reddit-hack-security-breach-stole-user-data-2007-earlier |website=theverge.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Got Hacked Thanks to a Woefully Insecure Two-Factor Setup |url=https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-hacked-thanks-to-woefully-insecure-two-factor-setup/ |website=wired.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Breach Highlights Limits of SMS-Based Authentication |url=https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/reddit-breach-highlights-limits-of-sms-based-authentication/ |website=krebsonsecurity.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit hack – what was stolen, is your account safe and what should you do now? |url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/6922354/reddit-hack-stolen-data-unsafe-account-protect-yourself/ |website=thesun.co.uk |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{dts|September 12}} || Censorship || Reddit shoots down r/GreatAwakening, one of the most active online hubs for the {{w|QAnon}} conspiracy theory, which details a supposed secret plot by an alleged "deep state" against {{w|United States President}} {{w|Donald Trump}} and his supporters.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit bans popular QAnon forum Great Awakening |url=https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/reddit-bans-qanon-forum-great-awakening/ |website=dailydot.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Just Banned The Biggest QAnon Subreddit After Users Called For Hillary Clinton's Death |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ishmaeldaro/reddit-just-banned-the-biggest-qanon-subreddit |website=buzzfeednews.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Jacobs |first1=Emily |title=Reddit bans QAnon conspiracy theory forums |url=https://www.foxnews.com/tech/reddit-bans-qanon-conspiracy-theory-forums |website=foxnews.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ohlheiser |first1=Abby |title=Reddit bans r/greatawakening, the main subreddit for QAnon conspiracy theorists |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/09/12/reddit-bans-r-greatawakening-the-main-subreddit-for-qanon-conspiracy-theorists/ |website=washingtonpost.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|January 11}} || Security || In response to a security concern, Reddit blocks access to a large group of accounts, locking some users out and forcing password resets after sighting "unusual activity" on the website.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Locks Accounts, Issues Password Warning |url=https://www.cbronline.com/news/reddit-account-locked |website=cbronline.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit locks down accounts following 'unusual' security concern |url=https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3069154/reddit-locks-down-accounts-following-unusual-security-concern |website=theinquirer.net |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|January 30}} || Product || Reddit launches cost-per-click (CPC) ads, the platform’s first performance-based ad unit, making what it calls its first foray into performance-driven ad bidding. The ads can be bought through the Reddit ad dashboard and are expected to “complete the suite” of Reddit’s ad offerings, along with cost-per-impression (CPM) and cost-per-view (CPV) ads.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gesenhues |first1=Amy |title=Reddit launches cost-per-click ads |url=https://marketingland.com/reddit-launches-cost-per-click-ads-256133 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=David |title=Reddit to Provide Cost-Per-Click Ads on Platform, Receiving Mixed Reviews From Agencies |url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/reddit-to-provide-cost-per-click-ads-on-platform-receiving-mixed-reviews-from-agencies/ |website=adweek.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit to Provide Cost-Per-Click Ads on Platform, Receiving Mixed Reviews From Agencies |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/PPC/comments/algisg/reddit_to_provide_costperclick_ads_on_platform/ |website=reddit.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit Advertising Could Be On The Rise Thanks to New CPC Ads |url=https://www.impactbnd.com/blog/reddit-advertising-cpc-ads |website=impactbnd.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|February 11}} || Company || Reddit receives US$300 million Series D investment, led by US$ $150 million from Chinese conglomerate {{w|Tencent}}. The deal gives Reddit a market valuation of US$3 billion.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Liao |first1=Shannon |title=Reddit gets a $150 million investment from Tencent and users are posting memes to mock the deal |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18216134/reddit-tencent-investment-deal-memes-amount-winnie-the-pooh-tank-man-china |website=theverge.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Constine |first1=Josh |title=Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/reddit-300-million/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit: Censorship fears spark criticism of Tencent funding reports |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47194096 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Redditors Not Happy About a China-Based Investment in Reddit |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-12/tencent-s-investment-in-reddit-won-t-muzzle-free-speech |website=bloomberg.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|March 15}} || Censorship || Following the {{w|Christchurch mosque shootings}} in {{w|New Zeland}}, Reddit bans /r/watchpeopledie and /r/gore in order to prevent sharing videos of the tragedy, an action that violates Reddit’s terms of service.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stephen |first1=Bijan |title=Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacres |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/15/18267645/reddit-watchpeopledie-ban-new-zealand-mosque-massacre-christchurch |website=theverge.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Bryan |title=Reddit operates exactly as it was designed — and that’s a problem |url=https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2019/03/15/reddit-operates-exactly-as-it-was-designed-and-thats-a-problem/ |website=thenextweb.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=After The Proliferation Of The New Zealand Shooting Video, Reddit Has Banned Two Channels Showing Human Death |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/reddit-bans-groups-death-gore-new-zealand-massacre-video |website=buzzfeednews.co |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=After Christchurch, Reddit bans communities infamous for sharing graphic videos of death |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/reddit-watchpeopledie-subreddit-gore/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|June 26}} || Censorship || Reddit quarantines subreddit r/The_Donald, a 750,000 subscribers strong online forum, popular among President Donald Trump supporters, as a response to some users having apparently encouraged violence against law enforcement. The quarantine restricts the board from generating revenue and limits its popular posts from reaching an audience in other parts of Reddit.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leskin |first1=Paige |title=Reddit has 'quarantined' one of the biggest communities of Trump supporters on the internet, citing 'threats of violence against police and public officials' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-the-donald-quarantined-subreddit-violent-threats-against-police-2019-6 |website=businessinsider.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Matney |first1=Lucas |title=Reddit quarantines its biggest headache |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/26/reddit-quarantines-its-biggest-headache/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Trump supporters claim conspiracy after Reddit 'quarantines' their biggest message board, The_Donald |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/the-donald-subreddit-trump-reddit-forum-shut-down-threats-a8976646.html |website=independent.co.uk |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wong |first1=Julia Carrie |title=Reddit 'quarantines' its biggest pro-Trump message board |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/26/reddit-the-donald-trump-quarantined-subreddit |website=theguardian.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref> 
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| 2019 || {{dts|July 11}} || Community || Reddit stops working for thousands of users, with some of them receiving an error message that says "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers" and others failing to load and receiving a 503 gateway error.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cranz |first1=Alex |title=Reddit Is Down as the Summer of Outages Continues |url=https://gizmodo.com/reddit-is-down-as-the-summer-of-outages-continues-1836274829 |website=gizmodo.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Webb |first1=Kevin |title=Reddit went down for thousands of users on Thursday morning |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-down-error-message-downdetector-2019-7 |website=businessinsider.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Khan |first1=Haider Ali |title=Reddit down worldwide with “Our CDN was unable to reach our servers” error |url=https://www.ilounge.com/news/reddit-down-worldwide-with-our-cdn-was-unable-to-reach-our-servers-error |website=ilounge.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|July 24}} || Product || Reddit launches a new feature called Community Awards, which consists of new Reddit Gold-style medals that subreddits can design for themselves, and can be awarded to users and displayed next to their username on the subreddit. The new feature aims to encourage healthier conversation.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Porter |first1=Jon |title=Reddit now lets subreddits design and hand out their own awards |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20707138/reddit-community-awards-gold-silver-subreddit-coins |website=theverge.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Grigonis |first1=Hillary K. |title=Mic drop, please: Reddit’s newest awards highlight specific communities |url=https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/reddit-community-awards-announced/ |website=digitaltrends.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit subreddits can now create their own community rewards |url=https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/24/reddit-community-awards/ |website=engadget.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit introduces 'community awards' to encourage healthier conversation |url=https://mashable.com/article/reddit-community-awards/ |website=mashable.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|August 19}} || Product || Reddit announces Reddit Public Access Network (r/pan), a weeklong experiment, in which users can post livestream videos as well as vote them up or down.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fisher |first1=Christine |title=Reddit experiments with livesteaming |url=https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/19/reddit-livestreaming-trial-rpan/ |website=engadget.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit tests out livestreaming feature called Public Access Network |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/reddit-offers-temporary-livestreaming-feature-with-public-access-network/ |website=cnet.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit launches five-day live-streaming test |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812887/reddit-live-streaming-test-public-access-network-rpan-subreddit-tool |website=theverge.com |accessdate=29 August 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || September || Statistics || As of date, Reddit is the 5th most visited site in the United States. It has 330 million monthly users, over 130,000 active communities, and 21 billion average screenviews per month.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reddit by the Numbers |url=https://www.redditinc.com/#history |website=redditinc.com |accessdate=23 September 2019}}</ref>
 
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| 2017 || {{dts|February}} || Community || Reddit bans the [[wikipedia:altright|altright]] forum for violating its terms of service, more specifically for attempting to share personal information about the man who attacked alt-right figure Richard Spencer.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/reddit-bans-alt-right-subreddit/|title=Reddit shuts down 'alt-right' subreddit|newspaper=CNET|access-date=2017-02-15|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/01/reddit-bans-alt-right-group.html|title=Reddit Bans Alt-Right Group|last=Resnick|first=Gideon|date=2017-02-02|website=The Daily Beast|access-date=2017-02-15}}</ref> The forum's users and moderators accuse Reddit administrators of having political motivations for the ban.<ref>{{cite news|title=Reddit bans a major alt-right community — and there may be a very good reason|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/why-reddit-banned-alt-right-2017-2|newspaper=Business Insider}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/02/reddit-bans-far-right-groups-altright-alternativeright|title=Reddit bans far-right groups altright and alternativeright|last=Hern|first=Alex|date=2017-02-02|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2017-02-15|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
 
 
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== Numerical and visual data  ==
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=== Google Scholar ===
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The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of October 26, 2021.
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{| class="sortable wikitable"
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! Year
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! Reddit
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|-
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| 2005 || 325,000
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|-
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| 2006 || 338,000
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|-
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| 2007 || 336,000
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|-
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| 2008 || 333,000
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|-
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| 2009 || 329,000
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|-
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| 2010 || 334,000
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|-
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| 2011 || 332,000
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|-
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| 2012 || 318,000
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|-
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| 2013 || 297,000
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|-
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| 2014 || 267,000
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|-
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| 2015 || 233,000
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|-
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| 2016 || 187,000
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|-
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| 2017 || 160,000
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|-
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| 2018 || 128,000
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|-
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| 2019 || 70,000
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|-
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| 2020 || 49,800 
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|-
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|}
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[[File:Reddit gscho.png|thumb|center|700px]]
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=== Google Trends ===
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The comparative chart below shows {{w|Google Trends}} data for Quora (Website), Reddit (Website) and Yahoo! Answers (Website), from June 2005 to April 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora, Reddit and Yahoo! Answers |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-06-23%202021-04-14&q=%2Fm%2F0bm8t1r,%2Fm%2F0b2334,%2Fm%2F098wjp |website=Google Trends |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref>
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This is a timeline of Reddit, an entertainment, social networking, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board system.

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Time period Key developments at Reddit
2005 In the beginning, Reddit's creators help seed Reddit with numerous fake accounts.[1]
2006 Apart from "reddit.com", "NSFW" is the most popular subreddit at the beginning of 2006. "Programming" becomes the second most popular subreddit for most of the year. Then by the end of the year, "science" gets launched and soon becomes the third most popular subreddit.[2]
2007 For most of the year, "science" and "programming" are the most popular subreddits (apart from "reddit.com"). They then get displaced by "politics" as the most popular non-"reddit.com" subreddit towards the end of the year.[2]
2008 This year is dominated by the launch of numerous new subreddits. By the end of the year (except for a short-lived blip following the 2008 Presidential election), no one subreddit (not even "reddit.com") would capture more than 50% of Reddit's attention. From the beginning of 2008 (to at least the end of 2012), there is a continual exponential increase in the number of unique subreddits people submitted to each week.[2][3]
mid-2010 Reddit overtakes Digg in search popularity.
2010–2012 From the beginning to the end of 2010 (and following Reddit's move to Amazon AWS servers in November 2009), Reddit more than triples in pageviews and bandwidth count.[4] By February 2011,[5] reddit reached 1 billion page-views per month. Within a year (by January 2012), Reddit again doubled in pageviews and reached 2 billion pageviews per month.[6]
2010–2012 Top-level content on Reddit transitions from majority text-based to majority image-based. On January 1, 2010, 27/100 of the top posts were images. By January 1, 2012, 77/100 of the top posts were images.[3]
2012–2014 Reddit achieves 37 billion pageviews in 2012, 56 billion pageviews in 2013, and 71.25 billion pageviews in 2014. Yishan Wong serves as Reddit's CEO from March 2012 to November 2014. Wong is replaced by Ellen Pao in November 2014. By September 2014, Reddit raises $50 million in funding in a Series B round, and makes its first app acquisition in October 2014.
2014–2016 On July 10, 2015 Pao resignes as CEO and is replaced by Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman.
2017 Reddit adds more social network features to go with user profile pages, including the ability to follow other users and location tagging.[7] Throughout the year, the site receives approximately 542 million monthly visitors, including 234 million unique visitors, which makes Reddit it the 7th most visited website in the United States, and 22nd in the world.[8]
2018 Reddit surpasses Facebook to become the 3rd most visited website in the United States for a few months.[9]


Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
2001 November Competition StumbleUpon is founded as a discovery and advertisement engine that pushes web content recommendations to its users.[10] It would be shut down in June 2018, and Reddit would be considered its best successor.[11]
2003 October 1 Competition imageboard website 4chan is launched.[12]
2004 November Competition Digg is founded as a news aggregator. Its popularity would prompt the creation of similar social networking sites with story submission and voting systems such as Reddit.[13]
2005 June Company Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. It raises $100k in seed funding from Y Combinator.[14]
2005 Late year Product Reddit merges with Aaron Swartz's company Infogami.[14]
2005 December Product Reddit adds commenting.[15]
2006 October 18 Community /r/science launches.[16]
2006 October Company Condé Nast (the publisher) acquires Reddit for less than $20 million. Team moves to San Francisco.[17]
2007 January Team Aaron Swartz is fired.[18]
2008 January Product Reddit decides to let users create their own custom reddits, or subreddits.[19][20]
2008 March 19 Community r/MensRights is created.[21]
2008 June Product Reddit becomes open-source.[22][23]
2009 January Community One of the most popular subreddits, "IAmA" (I am a), is created. Many famous people would proceed to participate in AmAs (Ask me Anything) from the community.[24]
2009 February 23 Competition Imgur is launched as an image-host by a Redditor seeking an easy way to share photos to Reddit. Imgur is developed to be the de facto image hosting service for Reddit.[25]

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2009 October Team Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman leave reddit. Steve Huffman helps form Hipmunk, and Alexis helps form Breadpig.[27][28]
2009 November Product Reddit decommissions its last physical servers and moves its hosting to Amazon Web Services.[29]
2009 late in year Product The online gift exchange Redditgifts runs for the first time.[30]
2010 June 7 Product Reddit launches a revamped mobile interface featuring rewritten CSS, a new color scheme, and a multitude of improvements.[31]
2010 July Product Reddit introduces Reddit Gold, in order to help raise more money for the site.[32][33]
2010 July Product The Reddit Enhancement Suite is released.
2010 July 21 Product Reddit outsourced the Reddit search engine to Flaptor, who used its search product IndexTank.[34]
2011 June 20 Community Alexander Rhodes creates the NoFap subreddit, r/NoFap.[35]
2011 September Company Reddit becomes operationally independent of Condé Nast. Reddit is now free to hire a CEO, pick out an ad sales team and figure out its own route to profitability.[36][37]
2011 October Community The jailbait subreddit comes to wider attention outside Reddit when Anderson Cooper condemned the subreddit and criticizes Reddit for hosting it. Following this negative news coverage (and the actual posting of the image of an underage girl), Reddit closes "jailbait".[38]
2011 October Community Reddit closes "reddit.com" and expands its number of default subreddits to 20.[39]
2012 January Community Reddit announces that it will start a 12-hour sitewide blackout protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act.[40][41]
2012 March Team Yishan Wong, a former Facebook employee and PayPal Mafia member, becomes Reddit CEO.[42][43]
2012 April 28 The Reddit serial killer hoax is perpetrated by class members of "Lying about the past", a course taught at George Mason University by T. Mills Kelly. The hoax – about an alleged serial killer named Joseph Scafe – is first debunked in just over an hour after being launched on Reddit.[44][45]
2012 August Community, Publicity Barack Obama does an AmA on Reddit. The increased traffic shut down much of the site.[46][47]
2012 October Censorship Reddit shuts down "CreepShots", a subreddit dedicated to photos of women taken without their permission in public places, including so-called ‘upskirt’ shots.[48]
2013 February Competition Online database and search engine Giphy is founded. The site is source of many GIFs shared on Reddit.[49][50][51]
2013 March Product (advertising) Reddit starts using Adzerk for ad serving. This replaces DFP for serving external ads, and replaces Reddit's in-house ad management system for native advertising.[52][53][54][55]
2013 April Community, Publicity Members of subreddit "findbostonbombers" wrongly identify a number of people as suspects in the Boston Bombings, including a missing Brown University student.[56]
2014 January 8 Community Mother Jones publishes a story describing the sale of guns on the site. The report suggests that sellers are doing so to exploit a loophole in U.S. federal law.[57] Nearly 100 AR-15s were engraved with the Reddit logo as part of licensing deal made with the page in 2011.[58]
2014 January Community American chemist Nathan Allen begins the /r/science AMA series with the goal of raising the visibility of scientists who are producing groundbreaking work in their fields but who are not well known outside of their fields.[59][60]
2014 February Company Reddit announces it will donate 10% of its annual ad revenue to non-profits voted among by its users.[61]
2014 June Community The "beatingwomen" subreddit is closed by Reddit administrators. The community, which featured graphic depictions of violence against women, is banned after its moderators are found to be sharing users' personal information online, and collaborating to protect one another from sitewide bans. Following the ban, the community's founder would reboot the subreddit under the name "beatingwomen2" in an attempt to circumvent the ban.[62][63]
2014 July Community Ben Eisenkop's Reddit account Unidan is banned from Reddit for using alternate (or "sockpuppet") accounts to upvote his own posts and downvote posts by other users that were either attracting attention away from his own or downvote posts from people he was arguing with.[64][65][66]
2014 August Publicity Reddit users begin sharing a large number of naked celebrity photos on the subreddit "TheFappening" in the 2014 celebrity pictures hack. Reddit closes TheFappening a month later.[67]
2014 September Company Reddit raises $50 million in funding in a Series B round, led by Sam Altman. Also participating in the round: Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit, Jared Leto, Jessica Livingston, Kevin and Julia Hartz, Mariam Naficy, Josh Kushner, Snoop Dogg, and Yishan Wong. Reddit plans its own cryptocurrency to give back to the community (later known as "reddit notes").[68][69]
2014 September Product An official mobile application for browsing AMA (Ask Me Anything) threads is released for the iOS and Android platforms under the name Ask me Anything.[70]
2014 October Company Reddit acquires Alien Blue as its first official mobile app.[71]
2014 November Team Yishan Wong resigns as Reddit CEO. Ellen Pao becomes interim CEO and cofounder Alexis Ohanian returns to Reddit and becomes executive chairman.[72][73]
2014 December 18 Censorship Reddit takes the unusual step of banning a subreddit; it bans "SonyGOP", which was being used to distribute hacked Sony files.[74]
2015 April 1 Community The Button, a social experiment, is introduced in a post to the official Reddit blog.[75]
2015 May Community Reddit introduces an anti-harassment policy. It intends to rely on users to report bad actors in the community.[76]
2015 May Product Reddit announces Reddit Video.[77]
2015 June 10 Censorship Reddit bans five subreddits, citing an anti-harassment policy.[78][79] The largest of the banned subreddits, "fatpeoplehate," had an estimated 151,000 subscribers at the times of its banning.[78] The other four subreddits are "hamplanethatred," "transfags," "neofag," and "shitniggerssay."[78]
2015 June 27 Community /r/The_Donald is created.
2015 June–July Censorship Reddit bans multiple subreddits and fires Victoria Taylor, the site's director of talent, who has served on the Reddit team since 2013. Taylor served as a liaison between the moderators of specific subreddits (such as IAmA) and Reddit itself, helping organize and verify interviewees for Reddit's user-led "AmA" sessions. As a result of this and other frustrations with Reddit—such as its moderation tools and its new conduct under Pao—numerous subreddits (such as IAmA, todayilearned, pics and science) temporarily shut themselves down in protest.[80] Subsequently to these and other recent events a petition asking Pao to step down as CEO reaches over 160,000 signatures.[81] On July 10, 2015, Pao resigns and is replaced by cofounder Steve Huffman as CEO.[82]
2015 August 18 Team Reddit hires Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer at Pinterest, as its first Chief Technology Officer.[83]
2015 September Product Reddit launches Upvoted, a news site that digs out interesting content from reddit, but without enabling commenting.[84]
2015 December 15 Product Reddit announces that it is shutting down reddit.tv.[85]
2016 April Product Reddit launches a new blocking tool in an attempt to curb online harassment. The tool allows a user to hide posts and comments from selected redditors in addition to blocking private messages from those redditors.[86] The option to block a redditor is done by clicking a button in the inbox.
2016 May Controversy Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says on an interview at the TNW Conference that, unlike Facebook, which "only knows what [its users are] willing to declare publicly", Reddit knows its users' "dark secrets"[87][88][89] at the same time that the website's "values" page is updated in regards to its "privacy" section. The video reaches the top of the website's main feed.[89][90] Shortly thereafter, announcements concerning new advertisement content would draw criticism on the website.[91][92]
2016 May 25 Product Reddit launches an image host for submissions to the site, allowing users for the first time to upload images. The release would cause Imgur submission activity to abruptly drop, as the latter was used by Reddit users as an image hosting website.[25]
2016 November 23 Community A member of a subreddit dedicated to Donald Trump, /r/The_Donald posts evidence indicating that Reddit administrators had modified multiple user comments inside the subreddit.[93]
2016 November 24 Censorship The Washington Post reports Reddit has banned the "Pizzagate" conspiracy board from their site stating it violated their policy of posting personal information of others, triggering a wave of criticism from users on r/The_Donald, a popular pro-Trump subreddit, who felt the ban amounted to censorship.[94]
2017 February Censorship Reddit bans the altright forum for violating its terms of service, more specifically for attempting to share personal information about the man who attacked alt-right figure Richard Spencer.[95][96] The forum's users and moderators accuse Reddit administrators of having political motivations for the ban.[97][98]
2017 March 22 Product Reddit introduces profile pages for content creators, enabling users to start threads directly on their profile, which they can moderate themselves. Other users can follow the profiles as they would a subreddit.[99][100][101][102]
2017 June 16 Company Bloomberg reports on Reddit looking for more funding, and aiming for a US$1.7 billion valuation.[103][104]
2017 August 18 Product Reddit launches its own native video hosting across both desktop and mobile, allowing users to upload videos directly to Reddit instead of relying on third-party services (such as Youtube).[105][106][107]
2017 October 26 Policy Reddit announces a new policy banning content that incites violence. Several extremist forums are closed down after the update, including r/NationalSocialism, r/Nazi, r/whitesarecriminals and r/far_right. Reddit's new policy says: "Do not post content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people."[108][109][110][111]
2017 November 9 Censorship Reddit bans a controversial message board dedicated to "involuntarily celibate" men, known as "incels", a 41,000-strong community. Several posts in the board have previously condoned, advocated, or downplayed raping women, who were called "femoids" by Incel’s users.[112][113][48]
2017 December 13 Partnership Microsoft partners with Reddit in order to make subreddits more searchable with Bing. The partnership is also expected open up opportunities for brands and marketers to take advantage of new business intelligence tools.[114][115][116][117]
2017 December 18 Product Reddit announces a number of changes to its iOS and Android apps, including a new user-to-user chat function. Media consumption-focused app updates include how it handles photos, videos and GIFs, plus the addition of things like live comment feeds, in-app chat, and tools for moderators.[118][119][120][121]
2018 January 25 Security Reddit enables two-factor authentication (2FA), adding a second layer of security by prompting users to enter a 6-digit verification code generated by their phone after entering their password. The security tool works across desktop, mobile, and third-party apps.[122][123]
2018 February 7 Censorship Reddit shuts down r/deepfakes, a subreddit dedicated to creating fake porn videos using a machine learning algorithm.[124][125][126][127]
2018 March 5 Publicity Reddit admits that Russian propaganda was used on its site during the 2016 United States presidential election and removes suspicious accounts from its site.[128][129][130][131]
2018 March 14 Product Reddit announces that it would be offering promoted posts in its native mobile apps, a feature similar to Facebook's. The company says its iOS and Android apps are now the most popular way for users to access Reddit content on mobile.[132][133][134]
2018 March 21 Censorship As part of an update to the company's content policies that prohibit transactions involving some goods and services, Reddit bans subreddits dedicated to dark web drug markets and selling guns, including r/GunDeals, r/GunsForSale and r/AKMarketplace.[135][136][137][138]
2018 April 11 Policy Reddit co-founder and chief executive Steve Huffman says that racism is permitted on the platform and states: “On Reddit, the way in which we think about speech is to separate behavior from beliefs. This means on Reddit there will be people with beliefs different from your own, sometimes extremely so. When users actions conflict with our content policies, we take action.” Many users respond by pointing out that hate speech does constitute behavior in a way, and that communities like r/The_Donald directly participated in the conversation and organizing of events like the white supremacist rally that resulted in the Charlottesville car attack.[139][140][141][142]
2018 April 30 Competition Facebook announces testing for a new Reddit-like feature that lets users "upvote" or "downvote" comments, so results are based on popularity. The new feature is noted by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who comments on the first round of testing in February, calling it the "sincerest form of flattery".[143][144][145][146]
2018 May 30 Competition Reddit overtakes Facebook as the third most popular website in the United States, behind Google and YouTube. It is reported that, on an average, users spend 15 minutes and 10 seconds on Reddit daily, in comparison to 10 minutes and 50 seconds on Facebook.[147][148][149]
2018 June 6 Research MIT researchers unveil "Norman", an artificial intelligence labeled a "psychopath," using disturbing image captions found on Reddit.' The project is reported to be a "case study on the dangers of artificial intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms." Researchers state that “Norman suffered from extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit, (...) and represents a case study on the dangers of artificial intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms.”[150][151][152][153]
2018 June 12 Product Reddit rolls out native autoplaying video ads across the site on mobile and desktop, further deepening the platform’s ways of putting brands in front of its audience. The new video ads are expected to look much like any video that is hosted on Reddit itself, including all the usual Reddit engagements like shares, comments, and saves.[154][155][156][157]
2018 July 18 Product Reddit launches real-time chatrooms for a handful of subreddits, letting moderators create channels for discussing topics that are as broad or specific as they like.[158][159][160]
2018 August 1 Security Reddit informs its users that a hacker broke into some of its systems and gained access to a variety of data, including user emails, source code, internal files, and “all Reddit data from 2007 and before.” The hack is later known to be accomplished by circumventing the two-factor authentication Reddit had in place via SMS interception.[161][162][163][164]
2018 September 12 Censorship Reddit shoots down r/GreatAwakening, one of the most active online hubs for the QAnon conspiracy theory, which details a supposed secret plot by an alleged "deep state" against United States President Donald Trump and his supporters.[165][166][167][168]
2019 January 11 Security In response to a security concern, Reddit blocks access to a large group of accounts, locking some users out and forcing password resets after sighting "unusual activity" on the website.[169][170]
2019 January 30 Product Reddit launches cost-per-click (CPC) ads, the platform’s first performance-based ad unit, making what it calls its first foray into performance-driven ad bidding. The ads can be bought through the Reddit ad dashboard and are expected to “complete the suite” of Reddit’s ad offerings, along with cost-per-impression (CPM) and cost-per-view (CPV) ads.[171][172][173][174]
2019 February 11 Company Reddit receives US$300 million Series D investment, led by US$ $150 million from Chinese conglomerate Tencent. The deal gives Reddit a market valuation of US$3 billion.[175][176][177][178]
2019 March 15 Censorship Following the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zeland, Reddit bans /r/watchpeopledie and /r/gore in order to prevent sharing videos of the tragedy, an action that violates Reddit’s terms of service.[179][180][181][182]
2019 June 26 Censorship Reddit quarantines subreddit r/The_Donald, a 750,000 subscribers strong online forum, popular among President Donald Trump supporters, as a response to some users having apparently encouraged violence against law enforcement. The quarantine restricts the board from generating revenue and limits its popular posts from reaching an audience in other parts of Reddit.[183][184][185][186]
2019 July 11 Community Reddit stops working for thousands of users, with some of them receiving an error message that says "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers" and others failing to load and receiving a 503 gateway error.[187][188][189]
2019 July 24 Product Reddit launches a new feature called Community Awards, which consists of new Reddit Gold-style medals that subreddits can design for themselves, and can be awarded to users and displayed next to their username on the subreddit. The new feature aims to encourage healthier conversation.[190][191][192][193]
2019 August 19 Product Reddit announces Reddit Public Access Network (r/pan), a weeklong experiment, in which users can post livestream videos as well as vote them up or down.[194][195][196]
2019 September Statistics As of date, Reddit is the 5th most visited site in the United States. It has 330 million monthly users, over 130,000 active communities, and 21 billion average screenviews per month.[197]

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Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of October 26, 2021.

Year Reddit
2005 325,000
2006 338,000
2007 336,000
2008 333,000
2009 329,000
2010 334,000
2011 332,000
2012 318,000
2013 297,000
2014 267,000
2015 233,000
2016 187,000
2017 160,000
2018 128,000
2019 70,000
2020 49,800


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Google Trends

The comparative chart below shows Google Trends data for Quora (Website), Reddit (Website) and Yahoo! Answers (Website), from June 2005 to April 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.[198]

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Google Ngram Viewer

The chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for Reddit, from 2005 to 2019.[199]

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Wikipedia Views

The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article Reddit, on desktop from December 2007, and on mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015; to March 2021.[200]

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