reddit hiring explosion! we're up to 5

The ketralnis alien is born. This was really overdue; sorry it took so long, David. He's actually been here kicking our ass at the office, kicking our asses in StarCraft, for a while now.

Folks are often quite surprised when I tell them that reddit only has five people working on it. I'm not quite sure how to take it ("Have we become that mammoth and soulless or do we just tend to assume that large websites must necessarily have a large staff?")

Craiglist is the perfect example of a dynamite employee-to-user ratio. Someone has already calculated it, I'm sure, but I'm going to guess that it's something like 1 employee for every 1 trillion users. There, you can quote me on that. That's what we're aspiring to.

We're still nowhere near that ratio, but hopefully this will help people understand why we haven't implemented tagging yet.

nyc reddit alien-napping remains unsolved mystery

We just landed in Toronto. There's a slight drizzle and a brisk wind. Still no sign of mounties or moose.

Or our reddit alien bobblehead (but I did already find a Tim Hortons!)

My Craigslist post and reddit blog entry still haven't truned up anything. But we're not giving up hope just yet.

We'll have to push on with drankkit, it's what the alien would have wanted.

Hope you can make it. We'll be the ones pouring 40s on the bar floor for our little futuristic homie.

Remember: if you see something, say something.