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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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