I dont mean to sound harsh but I believe this project is a waste of your time. If you want to make money, I would abandon this immediately. Cut your losses and start something new.
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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#212i love how you divy up all the funds for upvotes. thats so creative
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another moderation risk is that whoever is moderating has an incentive to delete people’s potentially successful posts and repost under their own or a friend’s alt account
Perhaps meta-moderation would work in this scenario? Randomly assign previous moderation choices (anonymizing the moderator) for users to rank. This could to identify moderators that are out of line. It could also lead to echo chambers though.
I do like /. meta-moderation, but I also feel that the ones contributing the most, interacting the most (via votes/comments) should have a vote to who they want their moderators to be on a regular basis.
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#214The idea of posters getting real money instead of fake internet points when their posts do well seems interesting, but maybe an unintentional experiment in unintended consequences. Moderation will be extremely important to prevent low-effort memes and content regurgitation and the like from saturating your main channels. Have you considered how you will encourage moderation and keep it free from the corrosive influen…
Completely disagree re: moderation. The goal for sites like this is never "high quality content", it's "maximum traffic".
If he can get 50k paying users, he's a millionaire. If that means low effort meme posts, who are you to slap those dollars out of his hand?
The "intelligentsia" of the Internet need to get a grip on what people want; these sites are for entertainment not elucidation and discovery.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I swear, the current protests have shined a very odd light on the average commenting Redditor, they want * The website to be free * The API to be cheap * The ability to use a 3rd party app that does not track, advertise, or monetize you in any way * VCs to continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars to run the site and never ask for an ROI Good luck kids
> * The ability to use a 3rd party app that does not track, advertise, or monetize you in any way I disagree on this point - I'm pretty sure all the big 3rd party apps at least have ads. The problem is fundamentally just that the 3rd party apps are a lot better than the official app, and have been for some time. If Reddit had made the official app better (which they've had _years_ to do) then significantly less peopl…
> I'm pretty sure all the big 3rd party apps at least have ads.
I use(d) Relay for Redit, paid a small ($5?, maybe) one time fee for the "Premium" version a few years ago and have never see an ad. You are correct in the sense that if you use the free version of Relay (and possibly others), you would have ads from the app, not Reddit, but if you're willing to pay a small amount, you can get rid of them.
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#216I logged in using the loginless browsing link. I could not see where to create a new post, nor where the "subs" are, if they exist. I tried to reply to a post, but instead of a functional HTML textarea I got some javascipt box that seemed to add two newlines after every character that I typed in.
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
It absolutely will. I had toyed with the idea of something like this before, but wasn’t sure what the behavior would look like until I found the cryptocurrency subreddit. They have a system that rewards a monthly crypto amount based on the number of upvotes you received that surprisingly has an actual value that you can sell for. It’s largely led to a race to the bottom where comments and posts largely ignore any lon…
This is subtley different though. 1$ gets split between all upvotes a person made. So instead of posts getting a value amount directly proportional to upvotes recieved, it will be proportional to how often those users upvote. In theory I think this would encourage higher quality posts to attract those who upvote rarely.
I may be wrong, but I believe this is how the subreddit already works. They set a total amount of crypto to be released, and it goes in proportion to the total number of upvotes you receive in comparison to others in a given time window. I think the approaches are largely identical with the exception of the crypto vs direct fiat.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#218I'm concerned about the `#` character in the URL.
# means fragment and that's kept local and not sent to the server unless client side Javascript sends it to the server. I would use an identifier that doesn't already mean something to the URL.
See the URL spec here: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3.5 We are using this in a lot of our projects, like https://github.com/Cyphrme/URLFormJS#query-parameters-fragme... (and https://github.com/Cyphrme/Path)
For an example where this is relevant: https://cyphr.me/ed25519_tool/ed.html#?msg_encoding=Text&msg...
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#219Ha, I had almost the exact same idea but just today. In my version though the subscription fee minus the dollar would be split evenly between all the subcommunities you follow, and within them by votes (by anyone).
This would incentivize creating communities that people would like to follow, not only for the content but also for the moderation.
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#220I recently found that more sites has Stripe code on pages that actually don't require payment. First it was a calendar site to schedule meetings, now this. As many of you, I have a bunch of blockers installed in my web browser and I strip off the Strip code when I am opening non.io 'register' page. Unfortunately, it prevents me from registering. I believe the code there is to build my profile and start using metrics/…
what payment method would you prefer? I find Stripe to be one of the least invasive payment SDKs. Am I wrong?
It's not about which payment method is used, it's about Stripe's payment SDK being embedded on every page (or at least, more pages than it needs to be on).