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Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by stevewodil »

_ps6d wrote: post #23
city41 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you know donations will keep up with usage? I felt like the OP was referring to a situation where Tildes takes off and becomes large organically. I'm currently building a site that I am considering attempting to make possible via donations, much like Tildes. Any advice you can share? How well have donations been working? Any gotchas? Thanks for any insights you can share!

You can see the site's current expenses and donations here: https://tildes.net/financials The costs to keep it running are already covered by over 10x with the current donations, and I believe the existing servers could easily handle at least 100x the current traffic level. In terms of advice, I'd say: - Don't go into debt (or take any investments) to launch the site. - Build something lightweight so the costs are lo…

+1 for transparency of financials, that's a really awesome idea

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by OJFord »

astrea wrote: post #18

What's to stop this from falling into the same trap as always? They grow, user donations aren't enough to sustain them anymore so they have to look into alternative ways of getting money, users hate it, they start a spinoff that promises to be better, rinse and repeat.

You could throttle (or even drop) connections from non-donor users, calculated to just be enough keep a manageable load on the servers.

Then, if users don't like it, they can pay for it. But with the throttling it actually has a direct affect; they can immediately see an improvement, rather than just an abstract 'vote with your wallet', 'oh if everyone thought like that [why pay, SEP] there would be no server' payment.

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by yanokwa »

Semaphor wrote: post #28

there are several people asking for invites. pm me or reply here and I'll invite you (Until my ten invites run out). In roughly 7h because I'm going to sleep now. In a recent census we realized we have very few non-tech people and women, so please help us even the scales by reaching out if you see this ;)

I'd love an invite!

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by Y_Y »

Semaphor wrote: post #28

there are several people asking for invites. pm me or reply here and I'll invite you (Until my ten invites run out). In roughly 7h because I'm going to sleep now. In a recent census we realized we have very few non-tech people and women, so please help us even the scales by reaching out if you see this ;)

I would also like an invitation.

This is how I felt when Gmail started.

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by lubujackson »

Semaphor wrote: post #28

there are several people asking for invites. pm me or reply here and I'll invite you (Until my ten invites run out). In roughly 7h because I'm going to sleep now. In a recent census we realized we have very few non-tech people and women, so please help us even the scales by reaching out if you see this ;)

I would love an invite, thanks.

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by bartread »

This is great: fast, interesting content, comments, voting, but... I can't do anything until I get an invite.

Tedious.

This invite only model sucks an 18-metre radius dog anus. We've seen it far too many times before. It's really boring and overdone and needs to die. Seriously, just let us in.

And I know what you're thinking, "Wow, this comment is super-obnoxious and we don't want this kind of person in here", but check my karma: it's pretty good. You've just crossed a line.

The problem here is I'm getting old and one day I'm going to die and I only have so much breath left in my body, so I don't have the time or the patience for your infuriating invite only model.

Please: stop arsing around and open it up.

Re: Tildes – a non-profit community site

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Post by m463 »

jagger27 wrote: post #12

What struck me immediately was how fast this site loaded. No font popping, no cookie waivers, no newsletter nagging, no huge images, no JavaScript fade-in, no scrolljacking, no signup wall. Funny how practical it is to make a functional forum and news aggregator that Just Works. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this and would love to get an invite!

umatrix says there is one site: tildes.net no subdomains, no cdns (which nowadays track instead of cache), no third party anything. refreshing.
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