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		giarc on Feb 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuatio... "No other expenses"??? I'm sure their hosting and server costs are huge considering the traffic they get everyday (#5 in US according to Alexa).

zanny on Feb 6, 2019 [–]

Until recently Reddit wasn't hosting any images or video on their own servers. That was a recent "innovation".

They could also feasibly curtail the custom styling on subreddits to reduce the space burned on hosted images there for backgrounds and headers.

Besides that all Reddit ever was was a lot of text.

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