Ask HN: Would you pay to use Reddit?

#1

Post by workerdee » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 9:04 PM UTC

If reddit had fees, how much would you realistically be willing to pay before going elsewhere?

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#2

Post by stephengillie » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 9:06 PM UTC

I'm not a big fan of reddit. But I would realistically be willing to pay for ad-free communities. I used to be an Imgur Pro member before they stopped accepting payments. I would gladly become one again.

They charged $3 a month or $24 a year. Considering I pay Amazon $80 a year for a service I barely use, I should be willing to pay a community about that much.

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#3

Post by afridi » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 9:22 PM UTC

Wouldn't pay a dollar, since most of the communities I use Reddit for are now also active on Facebook + Slack.

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#4

Post by yetanotheracc » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 9:44 PM UTC

I would pay not to use Reddit (or HN, for that matter). I would say..

$500 a month for a solution that would make me do something semi-productive instead of spending time on those websites.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 9:49 PM UTC

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#6

Post by 27182818284 » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 9:55 PM UTC

No. I'm not a big fan anymore. I'm in the eight-ish year club and I can't even talk myself into buying gold as a charitable thing.

Its value has decreased substantially to me with time. My answer to this would have been very different years ago, but now the site is too full of what I consider to be mediocre content that seems weighted really high. For example common expressions used over and over like "nature you scary" should be given a huge penalty hit. For goodness sake, looking at the site in an incognito window right now not only is a story on the frontpage twice, it is the same URL with one different query parameter.

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#7

Post by Pr0ducer » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 10:05 PM UTC

Nope. I'd find something else after $0-1/Month

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#8

Post by ErikRogneby » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 10:10 PM UTC

Nope. I don't use it now.

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#9

Post by Yadi » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 10:20 PM UTC

Yeah I would actually pay for it!

I'm a freelancer consultant and I get decent clients reaching out to me from Reddit.

I read about CompSci and Machine Learning almost on daily basis and the subreddits that I visit help me on that stand point a lot.

But here is the deal! People Love freaking drama and some thrive on it. So whenever there is a 0.1% of drama it gets amplified.

Also one other thing! I respect the HN community, but I've seen harsher feedback & more harassment here than Reddit.

PS: I'm a 5 years club member on Reddit.

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#10

Post by S4M » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 10:24 PM UTC

Yadi wrote: post #9

Yeah I would actually pay for it! I'm a freelancer consultant and I get decent clients reaching out to me from Reddit. I read about CompSci and Machine Learning almost on daily basis and the subreddits that I visit help me on that stand point a lot. But here is the deal! People Love freaking drama and some thrive on it. So whenever there is a 0.1% of drama it gets amplified. Also one other thing! I respect the HN com…

May I ask, where do you generally go to get clients' interest on reddit?