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Oh wow, I completely forgot about Flattr. Thinking about it again, I quite liked the idea. But I guess it never really caught on enough.
I hate to be this guy, but 410 seems a more appropriate code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/410
I would suggest is a 417 Expectation failed. https://http.dog/417
No wonder given the company that acquired the project is rather hotly debated for "removing ads from websites just to reinsert their own." Edit: Not reinsert their own, but having advertisers pay for the pleasure to not be blocked in their "acceptable ads" program.
No wonder given the company that acquired the project is rather hotly debated for "removing ads from websites just to reinsert their own." Edit: Not reinsert their own, but having advertisers pay for the pleasure to not be blocked in their "acceptable ads" program.
Flattr is the kind of idea that sounds great, that people love talking about - if only they could make a small donation to every website they liked - but that doesn't work because people are fundamentally too selfish. This is why ads are the only viable business model for a kind of "ephemeral website" - something you visit only briefly, derive some short knowledge or pleasure from until you follow a link somewhere el…
I hate to be this guy, but 410 seems a more appropriate code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/410
Maybe they come back!
Oh wow, I completely forgot about Flattr. Thinking about it again, I quite liked the idea. But I guess it never really caught on enough.
I've used Flattr for a short period of time in early 2010s. I think it's unfortunate that the service picked up steam when most of the published content was moving from self-hosted to centralized social media platforms. Actually with a bit of marketing Flutter would have been better suited nowadays than at that time.
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I've used Flattr for a short period of time in early 2010s. I think it's unfortunate that the service picked up steam when most of the published content was moving from self-hosted to centralized social media platforms. Actually with a bit of marketing Flutter would have been better suited nowadays than at that time.
Flattr, not Flutter. Flutter is another popular thing on HN.
Flattr is the kind of idea that sounds great, that people love talking about - if only they could make a small donation to every website they liked - but that doesn't work because people are fundamentally too selfish. This is why ads are the only viable business model for a kind of "ephemeral website" - something you visit only briefly, derive some short knowledge or pleasure from until you follow a link somewhere el…
Sadly agree. I still wish when it came to news sites there was a micropayment option so I could read a single article for $0.10 or something along those lines.
Same. I'm shocked that the NYT didn't use Flattr on their articles for this.
To access the full version of the NYT currently costs $0.50 a week so it would have been possible the NYT could charge $0.50 per article, or $5 for the year (one time no subscription) through Flattr or something along those lines.
I could definitely see this working at scale.