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...the "destroying" part seems like a pretty good thing imho. Setting some forests on fire to make room for some new sprouts seems pretty appealing :) "Communi
by nnq 11y ago
...the "destroying" part seems like a pretty good thing imho. Setting some forests on fire to make room for some new sprouts seems pretty appealing :)
"Community destruction" in the online landscape is pretty much a synonym for "pushing people towards better communities where they are better off anyway"... So a good thing.
(And I don't see the place of Wikipedia and donations in this. Wikipedia is obviously not selling any in-app purchases and the software they run on is "open source". HN is also "true free". Even their platform is open-source: https://github.com/wting/hackernews https://github.com/wting/hackernews not that this should count that much. And donations are obvious not profit, they are not even taxed as such. No ambiguity here.)
- icebraining 11y agoFair enough regarding donations, but the idea that HN is "truly free" while Facebook isn't is shows how unclear the proposal is. HN may not sell ads, but it does have them[1], it's just for their own companies. It's more than a little naive to think that HN makes no profit for YC and its investments. The analogy of burning the forest to allow the new sprouts to grow is quite pretty, but I'm not sure you'd actually get better trees in the end. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11295614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11295614