r/cars • u/mikasaur E85 Z4 M, Dinan 4.6L E92 M3, 458 Italia • Jan 15 '19
WE'VE REACHED ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!
/r/cars is officially a one million subscriber community!
It’s been an amazing journey almost exactly 10 years in the making. /u/teckademics created a great visual history of /r/cars that you can check out here. And for those curious, you can see all of the /r/cars banners over the years here.
The mod team wanted to share their gratitude on this milestone. Read on for our thoughts:
Over the course of nearly 8 years I’ve seen /r/cars grow from a small community in the corner of the internet -- with barely 10,000 subscribers — to an absolute behemoth with over a million. I want to thank all of our moderators who curate content, help community members, and work tirelessly to ensure /r/cars is a community with quality content. I want to give a special thanks to /u/verdegrrl who has done a huge amount of work over the years; without her care and commitment /r/cars could never have been the community that it is today. And of course, I want to thank all of you. To all of you who post links, ask questions, share stories, poke fun, engage in debate, make conjecture, give advice, bloviate, commiserate, and celebrate... thank you from the bottom of my heart. You’ve made this the amazing community that it is and the amazing community that it will continue to be. Thank you.
Unlike some of our more eloquent mods, mine is a simple message. Thanks to /u/Mikasaur for inviting me on this journey. I want to thank each of the mods from the bottom of my heart. Before you were mods, you were contributors to /r/cars in ways that stood out. You are us, and we are you. Positive contributors who each have a unique style and talent. There are many more subscribers who stand out for your inspired threads and insightful responses that we as a community don’t always acknowledge. Thank You. We hope to see you around here in the years to come. And as always, our door in mod mail is always open.
I just change banners, keep the old reddit CSS alive, recommend terrible choices in the weekly "what car should I buy" and above all accept bribe money from FCA to delete posts about reliability concerns. Maybe now that we have a million subscribers, Tyler Hoover will make a reddit account and host an AMA.
I appreciate being y'all's internet janitor and under-the-hood code person. I've learned a hell of a lot more from everyone here than vice versa. Thanks for some good years, and I look forward to a lot more.
I came on board when r/cars had roughly 350k subscribers. I’m glad to have been a part of it as it trebled in size and happy to be given the opportunity to help it grow. Here’s to the next million!
In the early 19th century, transportation was a dirty and haphazard affair. The streets of New York, for instance, were layered in detritus so high that new buildings would simply be built atop the buried foundations of the old ones once the refuse grew too deep to be workable. Railways were inconsistent, with iron alloys having to be reworked constantly to maintain structure. Steel, while not a new thing, was prized but inconsistent: The manufacturing process was very slow, it had a low yield, and batch properties would differ constantly due to impurities in the ores sourced. This remained the status quo until the middle of the century, when Henry Bessemer built on the works of William Kelly and developed a means of air-blasting iron as it was being smelted. The Bessemer Process dropped the time to make a batch of steel from hours or days down to mere minutes. Ultimately this work led to the ability of inventors, fabricators, makers, and architects all over the world to radically reconsider how the modern world was built; steel absolutely revolutionized how the world worked. The ability to produce high-quality and low-cost steel meant that transportation could also undergo such a sea change, and that led directly to the proliferation of the internal combustion engine and automobile. Now, nearly two hundred years later, cars are indispensible for transportation, economy, industry, and personal pursuits. In fact, r/cars has become the largest automotive enthusiast platform on the Internet: There are now a million of us subscribed here, all thanks to the car. As much as the first million of us owe a debt of gratitude to the inventors of the 19th century, we also owe a “thank you” to those members who contribute, engage, assist, and participate in making this the best community for automotive enthusiasts. Cheers!
I was asleep so to add my brief note, I just wanna say thanks to almost all of the other 999,999 of you for making this a cool place to hang out and discuss cars for the nearly 5 years I've been here, and for being generally well-mannered for us to moderate for the 5 months I've been a moderator.
I came on board like a few months ago so congrats on the subreddit getting to one million with no thanks to me but here’s hoping we can get it to two!
Finally, we’d like to show our appreciation to a few users who we think have gone above and beyond to consistently contribute quality content to /r/cars. These users will receive a small something as a token of our appreciation.
Once again, from the entire moderation team, thank you and congratulations! Here’s to the next 1,000,000!
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Jan 15 '19
/u/verdegrrl is the best mod on any subreddit.
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u/ChrisOfTheReddit E70 X5 | '24 Forester Limited Jan 15 '19
Seconding this. She deals with such a huge volume of posts, and keeps this place high-quality and awesome.
I've been around since 2012 and have constantly held the feeling that this is my favorite place on the internet. Here's to another million!
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u/verdegrrl Axles of Evil - German & Italian junk Jan 16 '19
Thanks for being here and making the place awesome!
More recently I'm grateful to enjoy the company of some very capable additions to the mod team. The jump from 500K users and up was getting to much for the original team.
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u/InsertBluescreenHere Jan 15 '19
wheres my celebration cookie and foam cup of juicy juice then!
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u/mikasaur E85 Z4 M, Dinan 4.6L E92 M3, 458 Italia Jan 15 '19
It's in the mail. You'll receive it in one million days. You all will.
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u/Smitty_Oom I run on dreams and gasoline, that old highway holds the key Jan 15 '19
Appreciate the shout-out, completely unnecessary! This has been one of my favorite subreddits for quite some time; there's a wide range of contributors, a good mix of topics covered, and most people are fairly civil even in disagreement. The moderation team does a great job of responding to user feedback as well.
Can't wait to see what the future holds!
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Jan 15 '19
I was asleep so to add my brief note, I just wanna say thanks to almost all of the other 999,999 of you for making this a cool place to hang out and discuss cars for the nearly 5 years I've been here, and for being generally well-mannered for us to moderate for the 5 months I've been a moderator.
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Jan 15 '19
Your comment is in the thread, now. Stickying this comment is lame
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Jan 15 '19
Whoops, didn't realise I hit distinguish & sticky. Something something morning coffee. I've unstickied it.
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u/dont_wear_a_C Jan 15 '19
No shout for /u/Doug-DeMuro?! The disrespek /s
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u/teckademics 17 Jaguar XES | 20 Gladiator Rubicon Jan 15 '19
When Doug gets Tyler Hoover in here for an AMA then we can talk
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u/Doug-DeMuro Porsche Carrera GT, Lamborghini Countach, Ford GT Jan 15 '19
hahaha
Hoovie currently on his honeymoon in Vietnam, livin it up.
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u/teckademics 17 Jaguar XES | 20 Gladiator Rubicon Jan 15 '19
Plot twist, he comes home with a cargo container full of Vietnamese tuk tuks and rickshaws
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u/brandonsmash Scooty-Puff, Sr. Jan 15 '19
Well, Vietnam is a great place to buy THE CHEAPEST HONEYMOON ON CRAIGSLIST! But seriously though, I love Vietnam. Pho for the equivalent of 25 cents on a street corner in Saigon? Oh hell yes.
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u/Doug-DeMuro Porsche Carrera GT, Lamborghini Countach, Ford GT Jan 15 '19
Indeed! His wife is Vietnamese, too, so that's what spurred the trip.
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u/ahaaracer '13 Subaru Impreza Sport Hatch Jan 16 '19
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u/Fugner 🏁🚩 C6Z / RS3 / K24 Civic / GT-R/ Saabaru / GTI / MR2/ Jan 15 '19
Ay, I got a shoutout! I guess my shitposting hasn't gone unnoticed.
Thanks to all of the mods for keeping her running so smoothly all these years.
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u/MuffinRacing Too many Civics, but a Cayenne ain't one Jan 15 '19
Thanks for the shoutout, and to all the mods that keep the place running!
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Jan 16 '19
I wonder rhow many of those are our long lost alts? I have a dozen I've forgotten passwords to. Most were subbed to /r/autos before the merger, however.
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u/Team-Redundancy-Team '17 Accord Coupe 6-6, '08 Civic Si Sedan Jan 15 '19
Good shit, r/cars.
good shit indeed
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u/kazumarukuwabara Jan 15 '19
Hey r/cars and r/pewdiepiesubmissions hit 1m in the same week, awesome.
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u/mikasaur E85 Z4 M, Dinan 4.6L E92 M3, 458 Italia Jan 15 '19
You're the second person to reference that sub. What the fuck is it?
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u/kazumarukuwabara Jan 18 '19
The biggest youtuber on youtube (pewdiepie) has a subreddit strickly for submitting content (usually memes) that he reviews every week. Despite the memes by the community and construed press he get sometimes, he raises a ton of money for all different chairties and helps out other content creators. A great dude but misunderstood by those too literal. Subscribe for all our sakes lol
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Jan 15 '19
Do a survey now, let’s find out what people drive, what they want to drive, what they regret owning etc, what makes them attracted to a brand.
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u/Logpile98 '03 BMW 540i | '06 Corvette Convertible Jan 16 '19
Wow, hard to believe we're now the largest online community for enthusiasts.
In light of that, and the general decline of forums, do we as a community have some sort of responsibility or desire to be a resource and fill that void? Many forums, if they're not already dead, often meet requests for info with "use the search function, idiot!" and links to guides where all the pictures are gone. Forums have suffered in recent years, so should/could we make this subreddit a more valuable technical resource for car owners in addition to the discussion we already have?
I'm not sure what all that would entail, but how feasible would it be for us to do that?
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u/verdegrrl Axles of Evil - German & Italian junk Jan 17 '19
I like to say that the range of knowledge in /r/cars is a mile wide, but only an inch deep. If we can get people started down a path and maybe help them find the niche community (be it a fb page, subreddit or forum) that can dive really indepth, we're doing well.
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u/mikasaur E85 Z4 M, Dinan 4.6L E92 M3, 458 Italia Jan 16 '19
We already kind of do that. We have a wiki and a sidebar with links to commonly asked questions. That said we can always improve.
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u/lostboyz Abarth 500 | Elantra N Jan 16 '19
Thanks for the callout, I'm really happy to be here and you guys have made a lot of tough calls that have made the community what it is. Congrats on the milestone!
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u/DaMmOn '07 BMW 325xi N52 | RIP '87 VW Golf II GL Jan 16 '19
Easily one of my favourite subreddits, with an absolutely amazing community. Thank you to all the mods, and everyone else for making this such an awesome place!
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u/Theantsrtakingover my Mazda Cx-3 is my baby Jan 15 '19
Just as r/pewdiepiesubmissions reaches it as well. Go 9/14 year olds!
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u/nukelauncher95 2025 Lambrogenie Timbermario Jan 15 '19
Oh wow! Thanks for the shout-out! I didn't know I was that appreciated.
I want to thank all of the mods, both past and present, for doing such a great job of running this sub. Dealing with a million people is no small task, you all manage to do so better than some of the other subs I frequent. This is basically the only one I actively participate in.
Keep up the great work.