Reddit Convinced Roughly 6,000 Users To Subscribe So Far

Re:Reddit Convinced Roughly 6,000 Users To Subscribe So Far by b-e-p on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @10:34AM (#1511477)

I will never donate.

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Re:Reddit Convinced Roughly 6,000 Users To Subscribe So Far by timdorr on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @11:39AM (#1511668)

But what if the semantics change and it's called "Subscribing"? Does that affect your assessment? I think a lot of folks are treating this as a donation (which is a side-effect of them using PayPal for this) and that's tainting their perception of what this is all about.

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Re:Reddit Convinced Roughly 6,000 Users To Subscribe So Far by b-e-p on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @05:18PM (#1512792)

I would not subscribe either. Reddit can easily make enough money from these 280m pageviews a month without resorting to these measures.

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Re:Reddit Convinced Roughly 6,000 Users To Subscribe So Far by ctbarna on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @10:43AM (#1511500)

why not? (not judging, just wondering)

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Re:Reddit Convinced Roughly 6,000 Users To Subscribe So Far by davidw on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @11:53AM (#1511710)

Conde Naste is a huge corporation, and if they want to let their purchase go down the toilet... well, I'm sorry, but I won't be picking up their slack.

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Re:Reddit Convinced Roughly 6,000 Users To Subscribe So Far by avar on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @12:57PM (#1511981)

I wouldn't donate either for those reasons, but one thing to keep in mind is that the codebase running reddit is open source: http://github.com/reddit/reddit

They pushed to the public Git in a month, but the donations users are making will go towards improving that codebase. It can be used to deploy your own (and hopefully more scalable) version of reddit.

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Re:Reddit Convinced Roughly 6,000 Users To Subscribe So Far by code_duck on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @02:26PM (#1512281)

Wow - you're awesome. Fly that flag!

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