Article from October 2011 where the admins announced their locking of /r/reddit.com - the decision that paved the way for Reddit not having this central community, and instead having topical subreddits.

https://redditblog.com/2011/10/18/saying-goodbye-to-an-old-friend-and-revising-the-default-subreddits/

created by ShiningConcepts on 26/05/2019 at 07:24 UTC

1634 upvotes, 8 top-level comments (showing 8)

Comments

Comment by tasartir at 26/05/2019 at 09:39 UTC

347 upvotes, 6 direct replies

r/atheism was default sub? Things changed a lot when Reddit decided to grow.

Comment by greyjackal at 26/05/2019 at 15:41 UTC

83 upvotes, 2 direct replies

I always thought it would make an appropriate sub for discussing the site itself, ie bugs, suggestions etc.

Comment by FabianRo at 26/05/2019 at 11:14 UTC

58 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Oh wow, another post! I missed my opportunity to link r/museumofreddit at r/museumofreddit for having no posts in the last 6 months.

Comment by UnholyDemigod at 22/01/2022 at 16:05 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Archive link

Comment by [deleted] at 21/06/2019 at 06:30 UTC

7 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Wait. /r/WTF was a *default?* Wow, those were different times.

Comment by FutureDH1089 at 30/05/2019 at 07:52 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I appreciate a new post in this sub. Thank you!

Comment by OpT1mUs at 26/05/2019 at 14:08 UTC

12 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Yes I remember, it was basically like /r/all

Comment by DTaH_Flux at 22/01/2022 at 13:46 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Dang. Looks like the article is gone.