One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profits
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Re: One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profits
#2It's a little bit ridiculous that a webpage serving millions of unique visitors every day cannot manage to turn a profit. A savvy business person would do a lot for a head start like that.
I think that the whole website is pretty bad. It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet. Open a new one as a subscription service, leave the old one open for free as it is right now.
I mean that wouldn't exactly be challenging and the whole site needs to be revamped anyway.
Re: One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profits
#3It's a little bit ridiculous that a webpage serving millions of unique visitors every day cannot manage to turn a profit. A savvy business person would do a lot for a head start like that. I think that the whole website is pretty bad. It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet. Open a new one as a subscription service, leave the old one open for free as it is right now. I mean…
I think you fundamentally misunderstand reddit.
Re: One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profits
#4It's a little bit ridiculous that a webpage serving millions of unique visitors every day cannot manage to turn a profit. A savvy business person would do a lot for a head start like that. I think that the whole website is pretty bad. It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet. Open a new one as a subscription service, leave the old one open for free as it is right now. I mean…
I think you fundamentally misunderstand reddit.
Please help us understand reddit by sharing your understanding about reddit.
Re: One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profits
#5It's a little bit ridiculous that a webpage serving millions of unique visitors every day cannot manage to turn a profit. A savvy business person would do a lot for a head start like that. I think that the whole website is pretty bad. It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet. Open a new one as a subscription service, leave the old one open for free as it is right now. I mean…
Badly designed? Reddit seems ok as a website.
Re: One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profits
#6Or just find a way to cover operating costs and let Reddit be, you don't need to push it into a billion-user company, SV profiteering style. Maybe there is something I'm fundamentally missing, but Reddit is great right now and has been the last couple years. Just cover costs (Reddit Gold is effective) and leave her be.
Re: One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profits
#7It's a little bit ridiculous that a webpage serving millions of unique visitors every day cannot manage to turn a profit. A savvy business person would do a lot for a head start like that. I think that the whole website is pretty bad. It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet. Open a new one as a subscription service, leave the old one open for free as it is right now. I mean…
The value of Reddit is the userbase. Unless you can convince a critical mass to move over to your new Reddit it's dead, and how are you going to convince people to leave their established communities and pay money to start over somewhere new?
Re: One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profits
#8Or just find a way to cover operating costs and let Reddit be, you don't need to push it into a billion-user company, SV profiteering style. Maybe there is something I'm fundamentally missing, but Reddit is great right now and has been the last couple years. Just cover costs (Reddit Gold is effective) and leave her be.
How many investors will be happy with that?
Re: One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profits
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you fundamentally misunderstand reddit.
Please help us understand reddit by sharing your understanding about reddit.
"It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet."
I love Reddit's design, it's very effective and to the point. You don't visit Reddit to view Reddit, you visit to read posts and comments. The design gets out of the way and lets you do that.
Re: One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profits
#10It's a little bit ridiculous that a webpage serving millions of unique visitors every day cannot manage to turn a profit. A savvy business person would do a lot for a head start like that. I think that the whole website is pretty bad. It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet. Open a new one as a subscription service, leave the old one open for free as it is right now. I mean…
> It's a little bit ridiculous that a webpage serving millions of unique visitors every day cannot manage to turn a profit. A savvy business person would do a lot for a head start like that.
Care to elaborate on how a savvy business person would extract a profit? Unobtrusive ads obviously don't make enough money. Obnoxious ads are going to push users away / to use AdBlock. Sneaky manipulation of rankings will get out eventually, and when it does, is also likely to lose users.
> I think that the whole website is pretty bad. It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet.
Really? I find it quite functional.
> Open a new one as a subscription service
Yeah, a reddit paywall is going to go over real well. (And if the free version doesn't compromise basic functionality, good luck convincing anybody to pay for frills)