When I set up the Elite Tech News Reddit back in the end of January, it was more of an experiment – I wasn’t sure if anyone would ever see it, let alone use it. A few days later there were a dozen or so subscribers, so I invited my friends Steven Hodson, Frederic Lardinois and Louis Gray to join in submitting sites to it.

By the time of the podcast I did with Mashable just two weeks later we had over 300 subscribers. I asked Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins to help out after the show and invited Jason Kaneshiro as well. Since then we’ve added Tony Hung to the mix as well (though he’s a slacker).

So here we are not quite two months later and we now stand at over 1,250 subscribers! The thing is growing faster than ever now – we had just crossed 1,000 when I was at SXSW last week. Both Frederic and Mark note why this likely is: It’s something that another friend of mine Muhammad Saleem wrote about a few days ago, Reddit’s changing of the way its main page is displayed based on what ‘Other Reddits‘ (those that aren’t the main one) you subscribe to.

When I go to the main page of Reddit now I see a ton of content from the Elite Tech Reddit on the page. I also see content from the other ‘Other Reddits’ I belong to. This makes these sub-Reddits much more useful as I don’t specifically have to go to them for their content.

Check out the Elite Tech Reddit here.

Now if only we could get a custom little alien guy…

On a related note, LinkRiver was kind enough to make a L33t Tech News area of the site which offers even more useful results based on what all of us share – if l33t Reddit just isn’t enough for you.