At the end of January, MG Siegler invited me to co-moderate the Elite Tech News Reddit with him, Steven Hodson, and Louis Gray (since then, Mark Hopkins, Tony Hung, Jason Kaneshiro have joined us as well).
It was this collaboration that also lead us to start the Elite Tech News podcast, which is still partly based on the stories with the most votes on the Elite Tech reddit.
We moderators of the Elite Tech reddit (the ‘Elite’ here is squarely meant tongue-in-cheek, of course) post the most interesting stories we find on the net there for your voting pleasure.
For a while, the subscriber rates climbed very quickly, but plateaued around 1900 subscribers for quite a while. Now, with reddit’s new design making subscribing to the sub-reddits even easier, we suddenly saw almost 500 new subscribers just during the last weekend, bringing us to just under 2500 members.
One of the cool things about this is that I’m quite sure the target audience on reddit is very different from that of FriendFeed and TechMeme and hence allows us to reach a completely different audience. However, the only problem with the sub-reddits right now (at least those with restricted moderation), is that only the moderators can comment on items, which is quite a shame. I’m sure that if our subscribers could comment, they would vote more often and feel more of a connection with our little sub-reddit.
Until then, though, the l33t reddit is still the largest moderated sub-reddit in the reddit ecosystem (and bigger than photography, Apple, and Christianity)
Frederic - Tuned in to the Elite Tech podcast. Was fun (and informative)