I personally donated $3.14 it would be interesting to see how much people donated or more data like average donation etc...
I found a tiny amount of USD in my paypal account left over from something (I'm not from the US) so I donated $5.
This was a triumph.
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#42Don't you think they should be showing comments from "gold" users differently? Kind of like what PG did a while ago using different colors highlight distinguished users...
There is a 'lounge' subreddit that only donators can get into. I don't think they should treat people differently on the main part of reddit, it'll cause too many issues/arguments.
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#43I wish they published some numbers though. The conversion rates for freeminum models (that I've seen) haven't been spectacular. Lets hope reddit breaks all rules here.
Contributors can view the list of contributors who have specified their username on the paypal checkout form (it's probably not public) at http://www.reddit.com/r/lounge/about/contributors - it's currently at 5715 donators. No word on amounts yet though, a few people are doing surveys in the subreddit.
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#44So the newly acquired cash is dumped into amazon EC2 again...
is there something wrong with this?
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#45Congrats. :) It's worth noting that this won't ever happen again, though. This was basically a one-time gain of $X. So hopefully they don't wind up back in this situation.
Sounds like they are already. Were going to use the money to hire a new guy, right? Instead, putting up a couple more servers. Or is that just the start?
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#46I personally donated $3.14 it would be interesting to see how much people donated or more data like average donation etc...
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#47So the newly acquired cash is dumped into amazon EC2 again...
is there something wrong with this?
There is sentiment that Reddit's developers are too quick to adopt the latest me-too web technology which overall doesn't benefit them. So I think what he's implying is that it's money wasted on EC2 when a traditional server would be more cost effective. I tend to agree.
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#48GLaD to see they're still alive ;-)
people downvoting this clearly miss the point of the original submissions title plus the references all over the linked article itself.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
is there something wrong with this?
There is sentiment that Reddit's developers are too quick to adopt the latest me-too web technology which overall doesn't benefit them. So I think what he's implying is that it's money wasted on EC2 when a traditional server would be more cost effective. I tend to agree.
In the last thread they said that they are spending over 250.000$ a year just in servers. They could save huge amounts of money if they would just switch to rented servers.
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#50So the newly acquired cash is dumped into amazon EC2 again...
is there something wrong with this?
Amazon EC2 is very cheap if you want to use a server for a few hours. However if you want a server for 1 year, then it's cheaper to buy a 1 year lease (i.e. your own server) than it is to rent it by the hour./