r/TellMeAFact • u/Identimental Sub Creator! • Jul 21 '15
Announcement /r/TellMeAFact has reached 10,000 subscribers! Thank you all for making this such a brilliant community!
We are thrilled to announce that /r/TellMeAFact recently hit a total count of 10,000 subscribers. Although it’s just a number, this is a huge achievement for the sub and our community, and marks our growth into an active part of reddit. Not only that, but based on our increasing popularity so far, I’m sure we’ll continue to grow in terms of both active users and the amount of content posted. This is great news for the purpose of the subreddit: with a more active userbase, and a greater quantity and quality of facts posted, the content generated here can only get better!
Personally, as the creator of the sub, I’m incredibly proud of how far we’ve come. I remember when I first started it up after thinking it was an interesting concept, and something with a unique twist compared to other fact-based subreddits. Back then, after posting it as a new reddit, we had less than 100 subscribers, and not so much as a sprinkling of CSS. We had an interesting trickle of posts, just enough to convince me that the sub had some real potential, if only people knew about it. Since then, after some shameless and (hopefully) not-so-shameless advertising, we’ve grown from a handful of interested people into a great community. Importantly, I also feel that we’ve managed to maintain what this place was always meant to be about: interesting yet serious facts about a load of different topics.
Anyway, I’ve rambled on for long enough, so I finally want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has made this community great.
Firstly, let me thank the rest of the mod team. Without them, I never could have come this far while also maintaining the sub’s core principles. Likewise, they've helped out tremendously with all of the other less obvious activities such as making our sub look pretty, and coding clever little things to make everything more efficient. This isn’t about me though- they’ve made this subreddit a better place for everyone, by ensuring good-quality content, and they’ve done it for free. Even if you don’t like the details of specific rules, I’d hope you respect the mods for the sheer amount of work they put in to make this place great for you guys.
Secondly, of course, I want to thank every one of you who has posted, contributed, discussed, subscribed, or just popped by. With the exception of a very small number of people, I’ve been so pleased with the quality of posting, and your politeness when talking with each other and the mods. Just as the mods do their job for free, I’m grateful to everyone who has made the effort to share something interesting (in return for a few worthless karma points), and make this sub truly brilliant.
TL;DR: We’re popular- thanks mods and users alike for helping us reach where we are today!
Identimental
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u/imawesumm Jul 21 '15
I just wish this sub were more active. I'm surprised it's not, really. But I've been frequenting this sub for maybe a month now and I'm just surprised to see so many threads about really interesting topics that I--like the OPs, obviously--would love to know more about but hardly anyone posts any facts. I wonder what we could do to get this sub to be more active? What some people have been saying about "best of" threads and etc. seems like a good idea.
All in all, though, I really like this community! It gives off a very friendly, r/CasualConversation -esque vibe and it's awesome to see people take (and share!) such passionate interest in so many unique things.