How hard would it be to visualize reddit’s uptime from 2008 to 2016? Let’s do it here, while going through most of its history.

We’ll be looking at the number of comments per minute that reddit gets. From 1 in 2008 to more than 2300 comments per minute in 2016.

It’s pretty tight, as there are a lot of minutes during these 9 years. My favorite thing to look at are the dashes of white space (when reddit was down), plus how it keeps growing steadily and rhythmically.

2008 — getting started

I don’t know if reddit was up or down, but I can take a look at how many comments were posted per minute during that year (thanks /u/stuck_in_the_matrix for collecting these comments!).

Let’s look at how many comments were posted per minute during 2008 (all times are UTC):