State of MetaFilter

Re:State of MetaFilter by darksim905 on Monday May 19, 2014 @04:26PM (#7769551)

If a site like MetaFilter is barely surviving, how is that Stack Exchange, Reddit, et al can just keep going? Is it because those sites have VC backing or roots in YC?

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Re:State of MetaFilter by dublinben on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @12:28AM (#7771253)

I'm pretty sure those sites are much more popular, and have better categorization for advertising targeting. You can charge a lot more for ads in /r/Television, /r/movies, and /r/trucks than you can on the generic MeFi homepage.

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Re:State of MetaFilter by kurtko on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @12:23AM (#7771237)

Reddit isn't profitable yet but is much larger and keeps its staff relatively small compared to its traffic volume.

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Re:State of MetaFilter by conradfr on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @03:57AM (#7771609)

For one I have never heard of MetaFilter and I can't understand what it is by browsing the site.

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Re:State of MetaFilter by illuminate on Thursday May 22, 2014 @09:35AM (#7783736)

More users, more user engagement, more valuable content.

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