I would pay a join fee for a lot of sites I use daily something like http://forums.somethingawful.com/ but not much over that
What sites would you pay to use?
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Re: What sites would you pay to use?
#22I currently pay for Flickr and Remember the Milk. I also pay for my web host.
Would pay for nymag.com (restaurant reviews & db is worth a few bucks a month).
... other than that, everything else I use has enough free comparable alternatives.
Re: What sites would you pay to use?
#23waffles.fm
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#24Google obviously. Pandora.com - ($15/mo ... i already pay this to Napster for unltd dls ( but I would have to be able to press a back button to play the previous song,etc ), Hacker News ($20/mo ... keep the trolls off) Wikipedia? Well if it came down to it, i'd donate to it; if it started charging, i would use other alternatives. the beauty of wikipedia being free is that it is free from the undue influence of paying…
Another vote for Pandora.
I'd be willing to pay for Hacker News, but deeply suspicious that it would start dying as a paid site.
Yahoo Mail charges me for POP access, and I'd probably pay gmail similarly.
I happily subscribe to Emusic.com.
That's about it for me.
I like Twitter, Friendfeed, and Blogger, but I wouldn't pay to use any of them.
Re: What sites would you pay to use?
#25wikipedia, gmail, and thesixtyone.
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#26Google. GMail. Wikipedia. DropBox. Anywhere.FM.
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#27The problem with this question is, when you think about it, one big reason all the popular free web services ARE popular is because they're free. So pretty much my answer to any of the sites I use would be, I might be willing to pay if I couldn't find an alternative, yet at the same time, I'd probably never be using any of them in the first place if they weren't originally free. However, I would NEVER pay for social news/discussion sites like this one (or digg, reddit, etc.). Regardless of the quality of the stories and discussion, social news sites are services I only use in my leisure time, I would probably not visit them if I didn't have tons of spare time anyway. No offense to social news sites, it's just that I wouldn't pay for them.
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#28Wikipedia. I'd pay a pretty penny for that.
That's one that didn't immediately come to mind for me. I gotta admit, I almost certainly would pay for that (although it's almost completely hypothetical since paying for it goes completely against the entire philosophy of the service, and if it had always been a pay service, it wouldn't be as extensive).
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#29Hacker news is probably the only site I would pay for. It seems to me there are pretty good free alternatives to just about everything else.
You, or someone else, could very easily create a free alternative to it. Hacker news is good because it's still relatively obscure. ANY social news site that is full-featured and doesn't censor its users will almost invariably start out great then begin it fail as more people find out about it.
Re: What sites would you pay to use?
#30Google obviously. Pandora.com - ($15/mo ... i already pay this to Napster for unltd dls ( but I would have to be able to press a back button to play the previous song,etc ), Hacker News ($20/mo ... keep the trolls off) Wikipedia? Well if it came down to it, i'd donate to it; if it started charging, i would use other alternatives. the beauty of wikipedia being free is that it is free from the undue influence of paying…
I might pay for Facebook, but if they started making EVERYONE pay, it would cease being the site which I began this sentence by saying I would for it pay.