Re:Niche Reddit-style sites with Slinkset? Thoughts?
by mdasen on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @02:49PM
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My thoughts:
Slinkset is good when your boss says, "I heard about this web 2.0 voting news site thingy and I want us to have one that looks like the rest of our website because then I can say buzzwords." It allows you to make it look in-house enough, but it still looks slinkset-y. It's good when you're an implementer of technologies rather than a programmer of them.
Beyond that, these types of sites only work when you have enough members. Have a community of 25 and it's not going to work well. But often your boss/customer might demand it anyway because it's the cool new thing.
Beyond that, it's a hosted service that hasn't defined a revenue model. Most likely that means that at some point in the future, it's going to get worse for you (cost you money, have ads, etc.). So, I wouldn't want to put my site on there without thinking that through. Maybe that doesn't matter to you because your IT department has the money to pay what I'm sure will be reasonable fees. If this is your personal site that you want to be a new community HuffPost, I'd rethink it since you're beholden to someone who has basically said, "we'll make you pay later. In the meantime, just enjoy." While I'm sure the Slinkset people aren't like being in debt to the mob, it's not a position you want to be in with a site that you want to make big.
Slinkset is good when your boss says, "I heard about this web 2.0 voting news site thingy and I want us to have one that looks like the rest of our website because then I can say buzzwords." It allows you to make it look in-house enough, but it still looks slinkset-y. It's good when you're an implementer of technologies rather than a programmer of them.
Beyond that, these types of sites only work when you have enough members. Have a community of 25 and it's not going to work well. But often your boss/customer might demand it anyway because it's the cool new thing.
Beyond that, it's a hosted service that hasn't defined a revenue model. Most likely that means that at some point in the future, it's going to get worse for you (cost you money, have ads, etc.). So, I wouldn't want to put my site on there without thinking that through. Maybe that doesn't matter to you because your IT department has the money to pay what I'm sure will be reasonable fees. If this is your personal site that you want to be a new community HuffPost, I'd rethink it since you're beholden to someone who has basically said, "we'll make you pay later. In the meantime, just enjoy." While I'm sure the Slinkset people aren't like being in debt to the mob, it's not a position you want to be in with a site that you want to make big.