Ask HN: If you were to build Reddit today, what would you do differently?

Posted by gajus on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:47PM
from the ask-hn dept.

For a while now, I have had an idea of a Reddit-like website with the only difference that it would have a nominal subscription fee. My hypothesis is that even a USD 1 fee would massively reduce the number of bad actors.

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Re:Ask HN: If you were to build Reddit today, what would you... by decafninja on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:04PM (#26691942)

I'm of the opinion that their old web site, while perhaps being visually less pretty, is still superior to their new one, both in terms of UX and performance.

The signal vs. noise ratio is also pretty bad. In some subreddits, who cares? Or maybe the noise is even desirable. But in other more serious subreddits where people are looking for serious answers, it can get very annoying. Maybe you're right in that even a $1 fee would reduce the number of people that just go around replying to every thread with "your mom" jokes.

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Re:Ask HN: If you were to build Reddit today, what would you... by yuppie_scum on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:33PM (#26692609)

Setting covid aside, if there’s a water bottle machine next to a high quality free water dispenser, why would people pay $1 for a bottle?

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Re:Ask HN: If you were to build Reddit today, what would you... by gajus on Sunday April 04, 2021 @05:23PM (#26692975)

2016 elections and many events that followed showed that we are poorly equipped to defend against state sponsored propaganda attacks. Having a fee would make it so much more difficult to orchestrate such attacks.

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Re:Ask HN: If you were to build Reddit today, what would you... by yuppie_scum on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:24PM (#26758672)

Yeah but the electorate isn’t going to line up to pay you protection money.

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Re:Ask HN: If you were to build Reddit today, what would you... by OutTeam on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:14PM (#26692035)

I would keep audio only subreddits and chat rooms as well. Just like clubhouse

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Re:Ask HN: If you were to build Reddit today, what would you... by gajus on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:51PM (#26692323)

I am not familiar with audio-only subreddits. What's that?

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Re:Ask HN: If you were to build Reddit today, what would you... by OutTeam on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:20PM (#26692527)

It's like a subreddit but instead of texting members can post and comment with audio.

P.S: I am just suggesting reddit can have this feature

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