What I’d really like to know is when Huffman removed the ‘custom user field” option, and if the founders artificially manipulated other area’s of Reddit to grow interest.

“We deployed a fix and are back up and running.” As of 2:16 p.m., Reddit’s status page was updated to show that the issue had been resolved after a fix was implemented.

In Reddit’s early days, Ohanian handled website design, business operations, user testing, and even created the company’s alien mascot, Snoo. Like Huffman, he left the company in 2009.

Digg – once known as “the homepage of the internet” – is making a come-back, after being bought by its co-founder Kevin Rose in partnership with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

I remember Alexis Ohanian saying during the interview that he hadn't had an executive assistant before and probably didn't need one. But I could tell that Reddit was a company where I could have a big ...