reddit in 2014

2014 is wrapping up and today is the last day before we all have to start dressing like this. So let us clamber aboard a time machine and see what happened this past year on this crazy website we call reddit.

First, some deliciously incomprehensible numbers:

In 2014 reddit had:

• 71.25 billion pageviews
• Over 8 thousand active communities
• 54.9 million posts and submissions
• 535 million comments
• 3.73 billion comment votes ¹
• 2.01 billion link votes ¹
• 886,745 reddit live updates posted
• 89,602 redditors gifted reddit gold ²
• 386,803 redditgifts exchange signups
• 1.6 million official reddit app installs
• 1 lambeosaurus

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However, numbers mean nothing without the redditors and communities that make reddit amazing.

As always, /r/AskReddit has some great end of year threads:

• /u/polished_iconoclast asks What are the best subreddits that you discovered in 2014?
• /u/crazya_2001 wants to know What's the TL;DR for 2014?
• ...and many more

Subreddit Best Ofs!

See more at /r/bestof2014

• /r/woahdude
• /r/BehindTheGifs
• /r/WritingPrompts
• /r/WhereDidTheSodaGo
• /r/TrollXChromosomes
• /r/ReactionGifs
• /r/DeepIntoYouTube
• /r/SWTOR
• /r/educationalgifs
• /r/twitchplayspokemon
• /r/Iowa
• /r/Beekeeping
• /r/KerbalSpaceProgram
• /r/badhistory
• /r/RedditDayOf
• /r/AskReddit
• /r/nottheonion

A selection of the top gilded posts and comments of 2014:

• /u/jeffp12 comments on the Ferguson riots
• /u/Arebel comments on TSM Bjergsen - AMA and /u/3hoho5 delivers
• A sad day indeed - the original Rick Roll video has finally been taken down from YouTube from a copyright claim.
• /u/Army0fMe on movie theatre etiquette
• "Don't bother sending a tech, I'll be dead by then"
• /u/mboyle has perhaps the greatest superpower...
• TIFU my whole life. My regrets as a 46 year old, and advice to others at a crossroad
• /u/wanderingbishop is Garg.  He is Strong.
• /u/corpuscle634 comments in ELI5: Why does light travel?
• /u/2days and /u/geryorama help redditors find their missing relatives via /r/LosAngeles and /r/nyc respectively.
• The 8 year old girl next door just broke my heart

And not forgetting the best of the redditgifts secret santa

So let’s raise our glasses and celebrate another year gone by, while we roll in 2015 not with a bang, but an upvote!

¹ Total comment and link votes were incorrectly labelled when this post was published.
² This figure was incorrectly calculated when this blogpost was published and has been updated to reflect the actual total.