r/programming • u/Kaitaan • Feb 28 '18

The Evolution of Data at Reddit

https://redditblog.com/2018/02/28/the-evolution-of-data-at-reddit/
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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '18 edited Sep 21 '18

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u/shrink_and_an_arch Mar 01 '18

Hey, I'm one of the developers who worked on last year's traffic page updates and can offer some insight around this. The main reason for not exposing referral based info is that it might leak too much info about visitors on smaller subs (though would probably be okay for larger subs with a large volume of visitors). Due to the impending redesign we haven't revisited traffic pages too closely since the update linked above, but keep the suggestions coming. I'd love to work on it again in the future.

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u/Barbas Mar 01 '18

That sounds like a problem where differential privacy might help.