On Creating a Social Network

Re:On Creating a Social Network by ge96 on Monday May 09, 2022 @10:22PM (#31322664)

Will comment I think the hardest thing is getting users. I tried to make a dating site almost a decade ago, I learned a lot from it but I had to seed it with fake profiles and yeah, ultimately it went nowhere.

What is this 'webring' thing on that site

> https://webring.xxiivv.com/

Huh it looks like an old thing (wiki)

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Re:On Creating a Social Network by jerojero on Monday May 09, 2022 @10:29PM (#31322710)

I think dating sites are particularly tricky because you rely much more on active users than simply user generated content.

Think of twitter, although active users are very much important, once a tweet is there it's there and it's available for everyone so the website gets a little more valuable with every tweet that is posted. But a dating site? Someone that makes a profile adds nothing if they abandon it after a couple days!

So although I agree with you that getting users is indeed one of the biggest challenges; I think your experience was particularly bad :)

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Re:On Creating a Social Network by ge96 on Monday May 09, 2022 @10:36PM (#31322751)

haha it's funny how that works, supply and demand

semi tangent, YT I was against it for a bit, but it's hard to beat their user engagement

against because of the ads being applied to videos even if you didn't want them there, but I also realized I don't pay for their service and their bandwidth/processing happily gulps down my GBs of files.

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