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I wish Reddit had gone the way of VLC -- keep your core product, the thing people liked, and stop chasing profits. Why do so many of these companies fall to the profit motive and lose their "soul"?
Paying staff? Hosting costs? Recouping money for the time they spent on it?
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Paying staff? Hosting costs? Recouping money for the time they spent on it?
Right? It's almost as if they have expenses to pay for. They provide value and they're entitled to earn a profit off of it. As a small business owner myself, I'm surprised by the amount of people who expect everything to be free.
If they initially said that they will be requiring sing-in to read comments, push app over browser, etc. it would be just fine (but then I suspect they would not have any quality content to monetize). Just my 2c.
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Until you are like in HK and need to organize yourselves for some reason. > If we're not going to pay with dollar bills, we pay with privacy. Paying with ads is also possible.
But if you pay with ads, don't you need to see a LOT of ads, unless your privacy is compromised and they use trackers about you to give you targeted (i.e. more lucrative) ads?
So: not sure.
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Paying staff? Hosting costs? Recouping money for the time they spent on it?
Right? It's almost as if they have expenses to pay for. They provide value and they're entitled to earn a profit off of it. As a small business owner myself, I'm surprised by the amount of people who expect everything to be free.
So now you have a whole bunch of people doing a reenactment of Silicon Valley, only the actual site experience for users has basically not changed since 10 years now (except "corporate innovations" like nagging you to install their app so people playing startup have their hockeystick curve).
It's a common phenomena. Look to Strava or Patreon, perfectly successful businesses that are instead exploding headcount and spending like a cancer, while never actually changing the core experience (except for worse).
They've been making increasingly more user hostile choice lately. Digg lessons weren't apparently not learned
Digg failed because Reddit existed. There's no similar social media for Reddit refugees to go to.
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That wouldn't help. A significant metric Google uses for ranking is relevance, meaning number of historic clicks for a given search term. As users learn that Reddit links aren't useful sources of information, they'll click less, which means the relevance between the search term and Reddit goes down. Ultimately reducing Reddit's ranking, regardless of if the Googlebot is allowed to index the content. People often mix…
Hasn't stopped Pinterest from flooding google image search results.
So, who's up for going back to forums with small but active communities?
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That wouldn't help. A significant metric Google uses for ranking is relevance, meaning number of historic clicks for a given search term. As users learn that Reddit links aren't useful sources of information, they'll click less, which means the relevance between the search term and Reddit goes down. Ultimately reducing Reddit's ranking, regardless of if the Googlebot is allowed to index the content. People often mix…
Hasn't stopped Pinterest from flooding google image search results.
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That wouldn't help. A significant metric Google uses for ranking is relevance, meaning number of historic clicks for a given search term. As users learn that Reddit links aren't useful sources of information, they'll click less, which means the relevance between the search term and Reddit goes down. Ultimately reducing Reddit's ranking, regardless of if the Googlebot is allowed to index the content. People often mix…
Hasn't stopped Pinterest from flooding google image search results.
A better analogy might be Expert Exchange. A site that put answers behind a paywall, and fell hard out of Google's search results. Then Stackoverflow came along and took whatever remained.