Timeline of Reddit

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.

Major events

class="wikitable sortable" ! Time period !! class="unsortable" \| Key developments at Reddit
2005	Reddit's creators help seed Reddit with numerous fake accounts to make Reddit seem more populated than it actually was.{{cite web \|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts--2/ \|title=How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts \|newspaper=Motherboard.vice.com \|date= June 21, 2012 \|author= Derek Mead \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
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, subreddit "science" gets launched and soon becomes the third most popular subreddit.{{cite web \|url=http://mic.com/articles/78735/here-s-the-cool-graph-reddit-fans-should-show-haters-who-still-claim-it-s-not-a-legit-news-site \|title=Here's the Cool Graph Reddit Fans Should Show Haters Who Still Claim It's Not a Legit News Site \|newspaper=Mic.com \|date= January 12, 2014\|author= Matt Essert \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
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.
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), not 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.
mid-2010	Due to a controversial redesign brought on by Digg, disgruntled users declared a "Quit Digg" day where they posted links to Reddit and left Digg behind to join Reddit. Reddit subsequently overtook 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.{{cite web \|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/evmek/2010_we_hardly_knew_ye/ \|title=2010, we hardly knew ye : blog \|newspaper=Reddit.com \|access-date= May 29, 2015}} By February 2011,{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2011/02/reddit-billions-served.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: reddit: billions served \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date= February 2, 2011 \|author=Mike Schiraldi \|access-date= May 29, 2015}} 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.{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2012/01/2-billion-beyond.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: 2 Billion & Beyond \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date=January 2, 2012 \|author=Erik Martin \|access-date=May 29, 2015 \|archive-date=June 5, 2015 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605150746/http://www.redditblog.com/2012/01/2-billion-beyond.html \|url-status=dead }}
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 resigned as CEO and was replaced by Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman.
2020 \|On June 5, 2020, Ohanian resigned from the board and planned to be replaced "by a Black candidate". The orange colour of the site emblem was changed to black for few months.{{Cite web\|title=r/announcements - Upcoming changes to our content policy, our board, and where we're going from here\|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/gxas21/upcoming_changes_to_our_content_policy_our_board/\|access-date=2020-06-05\|website=reddit\|language=en-US}}[https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/A-week-of-controversy-at-Reddit-co-founder-15320099.php Reddit changes logo and co-founder resigns in support of BLM – SF Gate, 2020-06-05]

Full timeline

class="wikitable sortable" border="1" ! Year !! Month and date !! Event type !! class="unsortable" \| Details
2005	June	Company	Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. It raises $100k in seed funding from Y Combinator.{{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 \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}
2005	Late year	Product	Reddit merges with Aaron Swartz's company Infogami.
2005	December	Product	Reddit adds commenting.{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2005/12/comments.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: comments! \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date= December 12, 2005 \|author= Steve Huffman \|author-link= Steve Huffman \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}
2006	{{dts\|October 18}}	Community	/r/science launches.{{Cite web \| title = /r/science \| work = Reddit \| access-date = February 8, 2017 \| url = https://www.reddit.com/r/science/}}
2006	October	Company	Condé Nast (the publisher) acquires Reddit for less than $20 million. Team moves to San Francisco.{{cite web \|url=https://techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/breaking-news-conde-nastwired-acquires-reddit/ \|title=Breaking News: Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Reddit \|newspaper=Techcrunch.com \|date= October 31, 2006 \|author= Michael Arrington \|author-link= Michael Arrington \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}
2006	November	Team	Aaron Swartz blogs complaining about the new corporate environment, criticizing its level of productivity.{{cite web \|author=Aaron Swartz \|author-link=Aaron Swartz \|title=Office Space \|url=http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/officespace \|website=Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought \|access-date=17 July 2020\| date= November 15, 2006}}
2007	January	Team	Aaron Swartz is fired.{{cite web \|url=http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html \|title=A Chat with Aaron Swartz \|newspaper=Blogoscoped.com \|date= May 7, 2007 \|author=Philipp Lenssen \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}
2008	January	Product	Reddit decides to let users create their own custom reddits, or subreddits.{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2008/03/make-your-own-reddit.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: make your own reddit \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date= March 2008 \|author= Alexis Ohanian \|author-link= Alexis Ohanian \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}{{cite web \|url=https://techcrunch.com/tag/reddit/page/5/ \|title=Reddit \|newspaper=Techcrunch.com \|date=June 22, 2008 \|author= Mark Hendrickson\|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
2008	June	Product	Reddit becomes open-source.{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2008/06/reddit-goes-open-source.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: reddit goes open source \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date= June 2008 \|author=Steve Huffman \|author-link=Steve Huffman \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}{{cite web \|url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/reddit-tries-to-compete-the-open-source-way/ \|title=Update: Reddit Tries To Compete the Open-Source Way \|newspaper=Techcrunch.com \|date= June 18, 2008 \|author= Erick Schonfeld \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
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.{{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 \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}
2009	October	Team	Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman leave reddit. Steve Huffman helps form Hipmunk, and Alexis helps form Breadpig.{{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 \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}{{cite web \|url=https://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\|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
2009	November	Product	Reddit decommissions its last physical servers and moves its hosting to Amazon Web Services.{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2009/11/moving-to-cloud.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: Moving to the cloud \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date=November 2009 \|author=Jeremy Edberg \|access-date=May 24, 2015 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520045208/http://www.redditblog.com/2009/11/moving-to-cloud.html \|archive-date=May 20, 2015 \|df=mdy-all }}
2009	late in year	Product	The online gift exchange RedditGifts runs for the first time.{{cite news \|url=https://qz.com/103166/how-redditgifts-is-monetizing-altruism/ \|author=Rachel Feltman \|title=How Redditgifts is making money on altruism \|work=Quartz \|access-date=March 2, 2017 \|date=July 12, 2013}}
2010	{{dts\|June 7}}	Product	Reddit launches a revamped mobile interface featuring rewritten CSS, a new color scheme, and a multitude of improvements.{{cite web\|url=https://redditblog.com/2010/06/better-mobile-reddit-for-all.html \|title=A better mobile Reddit for all \|work=Reddit \|date=June 9, 2010 \|access-date=July 29, 2010}}
2010	July	Product	Reddit introduces Reddit Gold, in order to help raise more money for the site.{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2010/07/reddit-needs-help.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: reddit needs help \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date= July 2010 \|author= Mike Schiraldi \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}
2010	{{dts\|July}}	Product	The Reddit Enhancement Suite is released.
2010	{{dts\|July 21}}	Product	Reddit outsourced the Reddit search engine to Flaptor, who used its search product IndexTank.{{cite web\|url=https://redditblog.com/2010/07/new-search.html \|title=Reddit Blog post announcing the use of IndexTank search engine}}
2011	{{dts\|June 20}}	Community	Alexander Rhodes creates the NoFap subreddit, r/NoFap.{{cite web \|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/about/moderators \|title=moderators – r/NoFap \|website=Reddit \|access-date=March 3, 2017 \|quote=created by Alexanderr: a community for 5 years (Mon Jun 20 23:46:08 2011 UTC)}}
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.{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2011/09/independence.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: Independence \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date= September 6, 2011 \|author= Erik Martin \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}{{cite web \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/business/media/reddit-thrives-after-advance-publications-let-it-sink-or-swim.html \|title=Reddit Thrives Under Hands-Off Policy of Advance Publications \|newspaper=The New York Times \|date= September 2, 2012 \|author= David Carr \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
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".{{cite web \|url=http://www.dailydot.com/society/reddit-r-jailbait-shutdown-controversy/ \|title=Reddit shuts down teen pics section \|newspaper=Dailydot.com \|date= October 10, 2011 \|author=Kevin Morris \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}
2011	October	Community	Reddit closes "/r/reddit.com" and expands its number of default subreddits to 20.{{cite web \|url=http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/10757/reddit-front-page-subreddit-history/ \|title=The war over Reddit's front page \|newspaper=Kernelmag.dailydot.com \|date=November 2, 2014 \|author=Fernando Alfonso III \|access-date=May 29, 2015 \|archive-date=May 30, 2015 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530050139/http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/10757/reddit-front-page-subreddit-history/ \|url-status=dead }}
2012	January	Community	Reddit announces that it will start a 12-hour sitewide blackout protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act.{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: Stopped they must be; on this all depends. \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date= January 2012 \|author= reddit admins\|access-date= May 24, 2015}}{{cite web \|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/11/reddits-sopa-blackout-admirable-but-google-and-facebook-must-follow/ \|title=Reddit's SOPA Blackout Admirable, But Google and Facebook Must Follow \|newspaper=Forbes \|date=January 11, 2012 \|author=Paul Tassi \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
2012	March	Team	Yishan Wong, a former Facebook employee and PayPal Mafia member, becomes Reddit CEO.{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2012/03/new-reddit-ceo-reporting-for-duty.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: New reddit CEO reporting for duty \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date= March 2012 \|author= Yishan Wong \|author-link= Yishan Wong \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}{{cite web \|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/new-reddit-ceo-yishan-wong/ \|title=Meet Reddit's New CEO: Facebook Alum / Quora Star Yishan 'Sparklepants' Wong \|newspaper=Techcrunch.com \|date= March 8, 2012 \|author= Rip Empson \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
2012	{{dts\|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{{snd}}about an alleged serial killer named Joseph Scafe{{snd}}is first debunked in just over an hour after being launched on Reddit.{{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=The Atlantic \|date=May 15, 2012 \|access-date=May 17, 2012}}{{cite web \| url=https://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 \|access-date=2012-07-20}}
2012	August	Community, Publicity	Barack Obama does an AmA on Reddit. The increased traffic shut down much of the site.{{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 \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}{{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 \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
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.{{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 \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}
2014	{{dts\|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.{{cite news\|last=Follman\|first=Mark\|title=How Reddit Became a Gun Market—and Authorized Its Logo on Assault Rifles\|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/reddit-guns-assault-rifle-ar15-logo-conde-nast\|access-date=9 January 2014\|newspaper=Mother Jones\|date=8 January 2014}} Nearly 100 AR-15s were engraved with the Reddit logo as part of licensing deal made with the page in 2011.{{cite news\|last=Nocera\|first=Joe\|title=The Gun Report: January 9, 2014\|url=http://nocera.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/the-gun-report-january-9-2014/?_r=2\|access-date=9 January 2014\|newspaper=New York Times\|date=9 January 2014}}
2014	{{dts\|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.{{cite journal\|last1=Owens\|first1=Simon\|title=The World's Largest 2-Way Dialogue between Scientists and the Public\|journal=Scientific American\|date=7 October 2014\|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-s-largest-2-way-dialogue-between-scientists-and-the-public/\|access-date=6 May 2016}}{{cite web\|last1=Allen\|first1=Nathan\|title=Announcing the /r/science AMA Series\|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1vqimu/announcing_the_rscience_ama_series/\|website=Reddit.com\|access-date=6 May 2016\|date=21 January 2014}}
2014	February	Company	Reddit announces it will donate 10% of its annual ad revenue to non-profits voted among by its users.{{cite web \|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/reddit-donations_n_4876589.html \|title=Reddit To Donate 10 Percent of Ad Revenue To Charity \|newspaper=The Huffington Post \|date= February 28, 2014 \|author=Eleanor Goldberg \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}
2014	{{dts\|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.{{cite web\|last1=Alfonso\|first1=Fernando\|title=Reddit bans infamous forum about beating women\|url=http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-beating-women-banned/\|website=The Daily Dot\|date=June 10, 2014 \|access-date=10 June 2014}}{{cite web\|last1=Ongley\|first1=Hannah\|title=Gross Reddit Forum Glorifying Beaten Women Finally Gets Shut Down\|url=http://www.styleite.com/news/gross-reddit-forum-glorifying-beaten-women-finally-gets-shut-down/\|website=Styleite\|publisher=Styleite LLC\|access-date=10 June 2014}}
2014 \|July 23 \|Product \|Reddit Live is launched.{{Cite news\|url=https://redditblog.com/2014/07/23/announcing-reddit-live/\|title=Announcing reddit live\|work=Upvoted\|access-date=2017-09-21\|language=en}} In 2016, users form the 'Volunteer Live Team' to provide live threads on ongoing news events.{{Cite web\|url=http://liveteam.org/\|title=index – VolunteerLiveTeam\|website=liveteam.org\|language=en\|access-date=2017-09-22}}
2014	{{dts\|July}} 31	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.{{cite journal \|last=Koebler \|first=Jason \|date=July 31, 2014 \|title=Reddit's Favorite Scientist Just Got Banned for Cheating the Site \|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/reddits-favorite-scientist-just-got-banned-for-cheating-the-site/ \|journal=Vice \|access-date=August 2, 2014}}{{cite news\|title=Reddit Bans One of Most Popular Users for Vote Manipulation \|first=Max \|last=Knoblauch \|url=http://mashable.com/2014/07/31/unidan-banned-reddit-permanent/ \|newspaper=Mashable \|date=July 31, 2014 \|access-date=August 2, 2014}}{{cite web\|url=https://np.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2c63wg/how_reddit_works/cjcc49i\|title=How reddit works • r/blog\|website=reddit\|access-date=October 19, 2017}}
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.{{cite web \|url=https://www.vox.com/2014/9/8/6121195/reddits-ban-of-thefappening-explained \|title=Why Reddit just banned a community devoted to sharing celebrity nudes – Vox \|newspaper=Vox.com \|date= September 8, 2014 \|author=Timothy B. Lee \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}
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").{{cite web \|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/fundraising-for-reddit.html \|title=blog.reddit – what's new on reddit: Fundraising for reddit \|newspaper=Redditblog.com \|date= September 2014 \|author=Yishan Wong \|author-link=Yishan Wong \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}{{cite web \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6874353/reddit-50-million-funding-give-users-10-percent-stock-equity \|title=Reddit gets $50 million in funding and will share 10 percent of that with its users \|newspaper=Theverge.com \|date= May 24, 2015\|author= Ben Popper\|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
2014	{{dts\|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.{{cite web\|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/announcing-official-reddit-ama-app_2.html\|title=Announcing the official reddit AMA app\|access-date=March 3, 2017\|archive-date=September 10, 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910213856/http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/announcing-official-reddit-ama-app_2.html\|url-status=dead}}
2014	October	Company	Reddit acquires Alien Blue as its first official mobile app.{{cite web \|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/reddit-debuts-its-first-official-mobile-app/ \|title=Reddit Debuts an Official Mobile App \|newspaper=The New York Times \|date= October 15, 2014 \|author=Mike Isaac \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
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.{{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= Alexis Ohanian \|author-link= Alexis Ohanian \|access-date= May 24, 2015}}{{cite web \|url=https://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= Alexia Tsotsis \|author-link= Alexia Tsotsis \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
2014	{{dts\|December 18}}	Community	Reddit takes the unusual step of banning a subreddit; it bans "SonyGOP", which was being used to distribute hacked Sony files.{{cite news\|last1=Goldman\|first1=David\|title=Reddit takes down Sony hack forum\|url=https://money.cnn.com/2014/12/17/technology/security/reddit-sony-hack-forum-ban/\|access-date=4 January 2015\|date=December 29, 2014}}
2015	{{dts\|April 1}}	Community	The Button, a social experiment, is introduced in a post to the official Reddit blog.{{cite web\|url=http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html\|title=Introduction of the button\|website=Reddit\|access-date=7 June 2015}}
2015	May	Community	Reddit introduces an anti-harassment policy. It intends to rely on users to report bad actors in the community.{{cite web \|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/reddit-introduces-anti-harassment-policy/ \|title=Reddit Introduces Anti-Harassment Policy \|newspaper=The New York Times \|date= May 14, 2015 \|author= Mike Isaac \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
2015	May	Product	Reddit announces Reddit Video.{{cite web \|url=https://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 \|access-date= May 29, 2015}}
2015	{{dts\|June 10}}	Community	Reddit bans five subreddits, citing an anti-harassment policy.{{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\|website=The Verge\|access-date=10 June 2015\|ref=verge}}{{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\|access-date=10 June 2015}} The largest of the banned subreddits, "fatpeoplehate," had an estimated 151,000 subscribers at the times of its banning. The other four subreddits are "hamplanethatred," "transfags," "neofag," and "shitniggerssay."
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.{{cite web \|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/07/reddit-amageddon/ \|title=Reddit Is Revolting \|newspaper=Wired.com \|author=Wired Staff \|access-date= July 3, 2015}} Subsequently, to these and other recent events a petition asking Pao to step down as CEO reaches over 160,000 signatures.{{cite magazine\|last1=Sifferlin\|first1=Alexandra\|title=More Than 160,000 Sign Petition for Reddit Chief's Ouster\|url=https://time.com/3946626/ellen-pao-reddit-petition/\|magazine=TIME\|access-date=July 6, 2015\|date=July 6, 2015}} On July 10, 2015, Pao resigns and is replaced by cofounder Steve Huffman as CEO.{{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\|access-date = 2015-07-10\|first = Eric\|last = Newcomer}}
2015	August 18	Team	Reddit hires Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer at Pinterest, as its first Chief Technology Officer.{{cite news\|url = https://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\|access-date = October 18, 2015\|work = TechCrunch}}
2015	September	Product	Reddit launches Upvoted, a news site that digs out interesting content from reddit, but without enabling commenting.{{cite web \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/6/9460025/reddit-news-site-upvoted-launch \|title=Reddit is launching its own news site called Upvoted \|newspaper=Theverge.com \|access-date= October 8, 2015}}
2015	{{dts\|December 15}}	Product	Reddit announces that it is shutting down reddit.tv.{{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 \|access-date=March 3, 2017}}
2016	April	Product	In April 2016, 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.{{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}} The option to block a redditor is done by clicking a button in the inbox.
2016	June	Product	Standalone image hosting service implemented. Previously, Reddit users primarily relied on Imgur for sharing pictures, screenshots, and graphics.{{cite web \|title=r/announcements - Image Hosting on Reddit \|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/ \|website=reddit \|date=2016-06-21 \|access-date=2022-01-27}}
2017	{{dts\|February}}	Community	Reddit bans the "altright" subreddit for violating its terms of service, more specifically for attempting to share personal information about the man who attacked alt-right figure Richard Spencer.{{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}}{{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}} The forum's users and moderators accuse Reddit administrators of having political motivations for the ban.{{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}}{{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}}
2017 \|April \|Community \|Place, another site-wide social experiment, is put into practice.{{Cite web\|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/62mesr/place/\|title=Place • r/announcements\|website=reddit\|language=en\|access-date=2017-04-04}}
2017 \| {{dts\|May 31}} \|Community \|Reddit stops using default subreddits, centering its new discovery-oriented r/popular landing page.{{Cite web\|title=r/announcements - Reddit's new signup experience\|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/6eh6ga/reddits_new_signup_experience/\|access-date=2020-11-20\|website=reddit\|language=en}}
2017 \| June \| Product \| Added ability to attach a video to a post.{{cite web \|title=r/changelog - [Reddit change] Introducing video uploading beta \|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6jo5it/reddit_change_introducing_video_uploading_beta/ \|website=reddit \|date=2017-06-26 \|access-date=2022-01-27}}
2017	{{dts\|September 13}}	Product	Reddit announces that its main code repositories, backing its desktop and mobile websites, are no longer open source.{{cite web\|title=An update on the state of the reddit/reddit and reddit/reddit-mobile repositories\|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/\|website=Reddit\|access-date=13 September 2017}}{{cite web\|title=Reddit is killing off access to its main source code, because open source is bad for competition\|url=https://betanews.com/2017/09/04/reddit-open-source-changes/\|website=BetaNews\|access-date=13 September 2017}}
2018 \|April \|Product \|Reddit announces the rollout of a new design for the site and its logo Snoo.{{Cite news\|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/2/17190244/reddit-redesign-begins-rolling-out\|title=Reddit begins rolling out first redesign in a decade\|work=The Verge\|access-date=2018-06-05}}{{Cite magazine\|url=https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-redesign/\|title=The Inside Story of Reddit's Redesign\|magazine=WIRED\|access-date=2019-10-07}}
2019 \|August \|Product \|Reddit announces RPAN (Reddit Public Access Network) in August. The official subreddit is r/pan.
2020 \|{{dts\|June 5}} \|Team \|In response to the George Floyd protests, Reddit announces a plan to revise its content policy to combat hate and racism on the site. Alexis Ohanian resigns from the Reddit board of directors and plans to be replaced "by a Black candidate".
2020 \|{{dts\|June 29}} \|Community \|Reddit updates its content policy to bar "hate based on identity or vulnerability" and bans some 2000 subreddits, including the long-controversial r/The_Donald.{{Cite web\|title=r/announcements - Update to Our Content Policy\|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/update_to_our_content_policy/\|access-date=2020-11-13\|website=reddit\|language=en-US}}
2020	December 13	Company	Reddit acquires Dubsmash. They intend to integrate its video creation tools into Reddit.{{cite web\|url=https://redditblog.com/2020/12/13/reddit-welcomes-video-platform-dubsmash-to-team/\|title=Reddit Welcomes Video Platform Dubsmash to Team\|website=Upvoted\|date=December 13, 2020\|author=Staff\|access-date=December 13, 2020}}
2023 \| \|Company \|Reddit moves its headquarters from 455 Market Street to 303 Second Street, both of which are located in San Francisco.{{Cite web \|last=Staff \|first=T. R. D. \|date=2023-03-20 \|title=Reddit to relocate HQ from SF’s Mid-Market to South of Market \|url=https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2023/03/20/reddit-to-relocate-hq-from-sfs-mid-market-to-south-of-market/ \|access-date=2024-08-24 \|website=The Real Deal \|language=en}}
2023	June–July	Product	Reddit announced new changes to its API pricing, effective July 1, that will force many third-party apps to shut down. In response, on June 12, thousands of subreddits went private in protest of the decision; some for two days, and others indefinitely.{{cite web\|url=https://www.neowin.net/news/reddit-to-go-dark-on-june-12-subreddits-protest-against-probable-death-of-third-party-apps/\|title=Reddit to go dark on June 12, subreddits protest against probable death of third-party apps\|website=Neowin\|date=June 5, 2023\|access-date=June 12, 2023}} After over 7,000 subreddits went private, Reddit experienced outages at approximately 07:58 Pacific Daylight Time on June 12 (14:58 UTC) credited to a "significant number of subreddits shifting to private".{{cite web\|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-down-private-blackout-goes-protest-took-subreddits-rcna88856\|title=Reddit says protesting communities crashed the site\|website=NBC News\|date=June 12, 2023\|access-date=June 12, 2023}}{{cite web\|url=https://clips.twitch.tv/SwissHealthyDoveM4xHeh-2gOVm6b8CxjCWVIb\|title=reddit is down\|website=Twitch\|date=June 12, 2023\|access-date=June 12, 2023}}{{cite web\|url=https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/1668271518059511810\|title=Identified: We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.\|website=Twitter\|date=June 12, 2023\|access-date=June 12, 2023}}{{cite web\|url=https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/ql81k3byj0rq?u=19w9g2xx9n2m\|title=Reddit Failing to Load\|website=reddit Status\|date=June 12, 2023\|access-date=June 12, 2023}}
2024	March 21	Company	Reddit begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker RDDT.
2025	January	Community	Over 100 subreddits ban links to X (formerly Twitter) over an alleged Nazi salute by Elon Musk at the second inauguration of Donald Trump.{{cite web \| last=Gerken \| first=Tom \| title=Over 100 Reddit groups ban X links in protest at Musk arm gesture \| website=BBC Home \| date=2025-01-23 \| url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77r1p887e5o \| access-date=2025-01-24}}
2025 \|February 4 \|Community \|One of Reddit's most popular subreddits, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, was banned for 72 hours for allegedly threatening to dox and murder DOGE developers.{{Cite web \|last=Den \|first=Sumanti \|date=February 4, 2025 \|title=Musk fires back after Reddit users call for public execution of DOGE staff in violent posts, ‘They have broken the law’ \|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/elon-musk-fires-back-after-reddit-users-call-for-public-execution-of-doge-staff-in-violent-posts-101738648187855.html \|website=Hindustan Times}}{{Cite web \|last=Butler \|first=Sinead \|date=February 4, 2025 \|title='They have broken the law': Reddit page banned after facing criticism from Elon Musk \|url=https://www.indy100.com/news/elon-musk-criticism-reddit-violent-posts-doge-staff \|website=Indy100}} FBI and other law enforcement agencies are investigating the threats.{{Cite web \|last=Knox \|first=Brady \|date=February 4, 2025 \|title=Authorities investigating threats against Musk and DOGE employees \|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3309602/authorities-investigating-threats-musk-doge-employees/ \|website=Washington Examiner}}

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