What could these 2,000 people possibly be doing behind the scenes? Reddit essentially never releases new user facing features, so what is everyone up to?
They seem to be constantly redesigning the website. For me, there are two versions of the "new design": one for listing, another for the post itself... one is black and the other blue. Every other week there's something slightly different or a bit broken. The latest change for me was that I can't collapse posts anymore in the new version. Since I don't really use much, I just end up in reddit.com instead of old.reddit.com...
(EDIT: Scratch that, when I actually log in there seems to be a THIRD layout!!!)
There's also the mobile apps that still seem to get weekly (?) releases, all with the same copy-paste changelog (at least in my language). Don't know if something really changed, I don't use it.
The overall quality of course is terrible (at least for the site).
But that's completely expected when the number of developers is that large. Developer headcount doesn't scale linearly to delivered work. At some point you can keep adding people and it will only make things slower. :/
(EDIT: Scratch that, when I actually log in there seems to be a THIRD layout!!!)
There's also the mobile apps that still seem to get weekly (?) releases, all with the same copy-paste changelog (at least in my language). Don't know if something really changed, I don't use it.
The overall quality of course is terrible (at least for the site).
But that's completely expected when the number of developers is that large. Developer headcount doesn't scale linearly to delivered work. At some point you can keep adding people and it will only make things slower. :/