Please work on the area for setting up bio and picture. I've paid $2 - I believe in you and want this to work! :) Thank you for all that you're doing!!
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#442I really like the idea of a micro-subscription. I want to contribute to online content but nearly always people are asking north of $5/month, and I have massive subscription fatigue at that level.
I wish the UI was more basic. All the work to create fancy UIs just makes them worse. Just clone old Reddit and stop there, it was nearly perfect.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#443The use of tags vs discrete communities keeps it from being a viable alternative to Reddit for me. I have a real disdain for tags for user generated content. Every site I have seen use tags I end up having to wade through a ton of spam or vaugly related content to whatever tag I am looking for. The only exception I can think of is Hashtags for twitter but that is due to the character limit. I understand that people s…
It works well for content focused platforms. Booru type websites come to mind, they are famous for their excellent community tagging.
Danbooru even has community sourced translations overlaid to pictures.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#444Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be honest I don't completely agree. The business model itself is what makes thin interesting, not to users, but to creators. Take me for example, I write tech articles from time to time, and the occasional video, presentation, or coding live stream. As it stands I don't make any money on this, I just do it for fun. But with a site like non.io there's no reason for me _not_ to post my content there. As long as you…
> As it stands I don't make any money on this, I just do it for fun. But with a site like non.io there's no reason for me _not_ to post my content there. I’m obviously not targeting this at you but a business model likes this (paying fractions of a penny per upvote) is not likely to attract high quality content. In fact the opposite it incentives a quantity over quality approach (i.e. content has to be just good enou…
Fractions of a penny from people who upvote a lot. A full dollar if it's someone's only upvote for the month. I'm not convinced quantity wins... although I am very much not convinced that it doesn't, either.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#445The poor mobile experience, and the seeming inability to even find the content without manually adding #all to the URL, makes this a non-starter.
When looking at #all, there doesn't appear to be any way to register or login without removing that from the URL and going to the splash screen.
It's not clear what posts are videos, and when I clicked one that happened to be, having it auto-play with sound is terrible.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#446You should probably have a responsive homepage. Being greeted by a static page that gives me sideways scroll on mobile doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#447Earlier quoted context omitted.
maybe make the first 10,000 or 100,000 accounts free for life? you need to build momentum somehow maybe summarise what your users need to understand in a sidebar or closeable top-bar?
You could also incentivize early adopters. For example, if you're in the first 100k users, your money/upvote goes twice as far. Something like that.
Or something like, seed quality content for rewards (post links that end up getting lots of upvotes = free subscription) sounds pretty close to OPs original idea anyway, just give better terms for early adopters.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#448Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did, but they weren't a fan of the paid model for interaction: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/147qzfb...
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
Reddit was launched 17 years ago. How many Redditors have lived with this state of affairs their entire lives - since before they were born? If Reddit's minimum age is 13, people who are 30 who signed up as soon as it appeared have never known life to be different.
(And, when Reddit was launched it was the era of the single core Pentium 4; storage and compute and bandwidth were expensive. Now they aren't. Store Reddit comments in a compressed file, they fit on a $50 SSD).
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#449You should probably visually distinguish posts from the test account(s), and delete them after a short time, or content from actual users will be drowned out.
Or maybe move test accounts to a separate instance?
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
>but if you take $24 from me for a year and then offer me $0.0193 for my efforts based on upvotes I might feel a bit cheesed off about it. is that how it works? I thought it was offering payments based on who creates posts or other community tools, not based on participation. you are correct that 2 cents would be a pittance to me who doesn't even want to be paid to browse content. But if I and 1000 others gave that 2…
It reads to me like: > " [your subscription fee over my $1 take] gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month. " So if I subscribe and pay $2/month, there's $1/month from me for that, so if I upvote ten things they each get $0.03 from me and if I upvote a ten things a day that's three hundred in a month, they each get $0.0033 from me. I'm not clear if that covers comments or only top level submissions /…
Maybe the solution is to weight upvotes by the number of upvotes cast that month in the "subreddit"
If there are 100K upvotes per month in some small city sub, and 100B in the videos sub, getting 1K upvotes in the city sub would would be the equivalent of 1B in the videos sub (in terms of your distribution)
This would encourage people to participate in smaller communities, which could be really nice for keeping the "small town" vibe of early reddit.