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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by Alupis on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:36PM (#36246545)
Sometimes, in the real world, and especially with business - you must swallow your pride to survive another day.

Shutting down a popular business because things got temporarily inconvenient is immature at best.

HN, alone, is filled with people willing to pay $5 a month. He doesn't need to find new subscribers, he already has them! He's just not asking them for what he needs to continue operating.

That's entirely on Apollo...

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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by WeylandYutani on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:50PM (#36246746)
Nah nobody's going to pay for Reddit.

Monetisation of social networks only works via ads/tracking.

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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by Alupis on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:56PM (#36246841)
The amount of Reddit Gold that's thrown around seems to disagree...
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Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th by garbagecoder on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:50PM (#36246747)
No, no you don't. In business relationships are critical. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably one of the people you don't want to do business with. There's a name for people who will do anything for money and those are usually one off transactions. You've had a month of everyone telling this guy he's dumb to trust a 3rd party with your platform and now the 2cynical4u people are saying shut up and be a whore.

You're just being an unconstructive critic.

And you have no evidence it's temporary.

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