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I dunno. Sites that can't pay the bills tend not to give good experiences, due to not being able to do things. Like exist.

• Dylan16807 11y ago
  Depends on what the bills are for. Most sites that don't have content-production staff need twenty bucks a month for hosting, plus an occasional prod from a sysadmin.
  • tyingq 11y ago
    Are there some types of content where the author, photographer, etc will produce it without direct compensation? Sure. Are there others where that's not practical? Also, yes. Maybe not things that you need, but this problem does exist. At the moment, there's not a model, outside of ads, that works very well for that sort of thing. There are some subscription/micropayment schemes that seem promising, but nothing that works as well as ads do.
    • Dylan16807 11y ago
      I didn't say it was supposed to work for all sites, just that st3v3r is ignoring a huge swath of the internet by implying that nonprofessional sites don't exist.