Afternoon r/uk’ers.

There comes a point in many large subreddits lives where they hit the big 1mil. Today is our turn, as just before 1500, our millionth ~~alt~~subscriber joined.

When I joined r/uk it was practically empty, and basically inhabited by a single submitter with <700 subscribers. Subreddits were barely a thing at the time of the Digg invasion, and r/uk was only one amongst 4 or so [UK Subs](https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/wiki/british_subreddits)! By the time we I joined the team just before COVID19, we were at 280k. [The growth since, has been insane](https://i.imgur.com/g0H8EKw.png), with 700,000 of you having joined in the last 24 months. People that didn’t see us cover Gordon Browns administration, leaving your kids in pubs, the London Olympics, Horse Meat, ScotIndy Season 32, ‘I agree with Nick’, or even the neverendum.

We’re on course to be the 2nd largest GeoSub/PlaceSub on Reddit within days. While we are unlikely to outdo Canada anytime soon given Americans give us scant interest, it isn’t impossible – Reddit is targeting the UK for growth and even has an office here with a handful of British Admins. We now entertain between 2-4k comments per _day_. What do you all even talk about?!

As a classic linksharing sub which has only recently re-enabled images, our growth is hard fought for relatively. So from the Jannie Junta, **thank you everyone** for being part of our journey on this little corner of the site. Especially to those who submit links (shoutouts to long timers u/ainbheartach, u/qpl23, u/esprit-de-lescalier, and u/topotaul) and provide interesting commentary. You lot make this place what it is, and the reason people continue to visit. And thank you mods, past and present, for tidying up after them.

We invite you below to provide your meta commentary in [whatever way you see fit](https://img.maximummedia.ie/joe_ie/eyJkYXRhIjoie1widXJsXCI6XCJodHRwOlxcXC9cXFwvbWVkaWEtam9lLm1heGltdW1tZWRpYS5pZS5zMy5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tXFxcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcXFwvdXBsb2Fkc1xcXC8yMDIwXFxcLzExXFxcLzE4MTQzMzQ1XFxcL2dpcGh5LmdpZlwiLFwid2lkdGhcIjo2NDcsXCJoZWlnaHRcIjozNDAsXCJkZWZhdWx0XCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL3d3dy5qb2UuaWVcXFwvYXNzZXRzXFxcL2ltYWdlc1xcXC9qb2VcXFwvbm8taW1hZ2UucG5nP2lkPTI2NGEyZGJlMzcwZjJjNjc1ZmNkXCIsXCJvcHRpb25zXCI6W119IiwiaGFzaCI6ImNjZDE0Yjg0OTE4NDU1MThkN2JhY2FiMzUwZDdlYzIxMTUxNGI2MjAifQ==/giphy.gif). Perhaps some of the funniest moments, archive.org captures, hottest user takes, or no doubt the usual ‘heartfelt’ criticism for things you’d like to see on our way to 2million! I know I for one, miss things like our old Wednesday megathreads and similar.

Stay tuned, as over the coming weeks we’ll be launching our very belated Subbie Survey and maybe a… couple of other things.

24 comments

  9. Would be good if that million could all discuss things here and not have anything with the slightest controversy limited to whatever +++ moderation is.

  10. more isnt better.

    How many of those subscribed accounts will be bot accounts or sockpuppet accounts? You want quality over quantity.

  11. My favourite moment from recently was the guy that didn’t understand that the only qualification for being an asylum seeker is seeking asylum. Making all asylum seekers genuine asylum seekers.

  13. Welcome to the depression pit, no positivity allowed at all and always no matter the article…make sure you make it about he Tories.

  14. At 1500 today I was in the midst of making cupcakes, so they’ll do. Yay celebration, lovely to be here with you all. They’re not quite red, white and blue though (more like pinkish, purplish and white-with-gold-sprinkles)…

  15. Just make sure your opinions fit in, or someone will ban you and the whole mod team will ignore any appeal

    As it should be

  16. This sub is an odd one, I’ll give it that. Because other UK subs exist this has ended up being obsessed with negativity and the Tories. There’s not a single non Tory obsessed post on here. But it makes me laugh. The number of times I’ve been called a Tory or had Reddit care message me…it’s absolutely hilarious.

    And yes, I get that this post is about the Tories.

  18. >When I joined r/uk it was practically empty, and basically inhabited by a single submitter with <700 subscribers.

    When I joined (2010 originally) it was a really fun (and serious) place. No vitriol, no spite, no hating. I’m only seeing this post because it was linked elsewhere.

    Anyone who remembers the “dog hurts nose” legendary post, or “United Kingdom Monopoly” post will concur.

    Feels bad that I can never come here now, except for this once, mayhap to get my head bitten off.

  22. As much as it’s a great thing people are subscribing here I feel as if there has been a sharper rise in personal attacks and echo-chamberism. The JSO posts are starting to really bring out the worst in people and there seems to be very little patience to actually talk through issues, just much easier to say ‘if you don’t support X you are on the wrong side of history, just like with MLKs protests’ (which isn’t me being hyperbolic, I’ve seen multiple repeated comments like this).

    It doesn’t really stop there and there are other subjects that being out hostility really quickly which is no wonder it’s becoming such an echo chamber. Who wants to stick around to be repeatedly insulted or tarred in the same brush as the far right. I feel like I’m wasting my time to be ultimately downvoted for not agreeing with some fairly extreme points.

    Christ even saying you like Starmer will see you downvoted sometimes.

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