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I wish they published some numbers though. The conversion rates for freeminum models (that I've seen) haven't been spectacular. Lets hope reddit breaks all rule

I wish they published some numbers though. The conversion rates for freeminum models (that I've seen) haven't been spectacular. Lets hope reddit breaks all rules here.

dot 16y ago
They mentioned 6000 supporters.
- JesseAldridge 16y ago
  Out of 8 million active users. So 0.075% donated. About one donation per thousand users.
  - blhack 16y ago
    Whoa whoa whoa, I don't think reddit has even close to 8 million active users. I'd say much closer to about 100,000. The announcement section, which is included by default, and low traffic enough that I doubt anybody unsubscribes, has 300,000 users. Even if they're retaining 30% of their users (and keeping them as active), that still isn't even close to 8 million.
    - jorgeortiz85 16y ago
      Most reddit users probably don't have accounts.
    - JesseAldridge 16y ago
      Hmm, good point. The 8 million number comes from the blog post. Maybe the vast majority of people who visit the site don't bother to create an account?
    - pavs 16y ago
      They had 8 million unique visitors in last month: http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/co29o/congratulations_reddit/c0u0pf3 http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/co29o/c... To put things in to context, reddit ran a haiti donation campaign which was heavily promoted through their ad spaces and blog postings and individual "donation drive threads" and they raised $185k from 3783 users over a period of ~30 days. They broke their first 100k within 12 hours. So if they got 6000 people to donate within 48 hours or so, that pretty damn good, over next few weeks as they add subscription only features its bound to get much much higher number as it gets promoted more. http://dri.convio.net/site/TR?pg=fund&fr_id=1030&pxfid=1511 http://dri.convio.net/site/TR?pg=fund&fr_id=1030&pxf... They didn't release the money amount yet because they are waiting for "confirmation" from higher up to reveal the numbers.
nphase 16y ago
I guess people _will_ pay to keep something they love alive. Great to see humanity at work.
xelfer 16y ago
Contributors can view the list of contributors who have specified their username on the paypal checkout form (it's probably not public) at http://www.reddit.com/r/lounge/about/contributors http://www.reddit.com/r/lounge/about/contributors - it's currently at 5715 donators. No word on amounts yet though, a few people are doing surveys in the subreddit.

I wish they published some numbers though. The conversion rates for freeminum models (that I've seen) haven't been spectacular. Lets hope reddit breaks all rules here.

dot 16y ago

They mentioned 6000 supporters.

JesseAldridge 16y ago
Out of 8 million active users. So 0.075% donated. About one donation per thousand users.
- blhack 16y ago
  Whoa whoa whoa, I don't think reddit has even close to 8 million active users. I'd say much closer to about 100,000. The announcement section, which is included by default, and low traffic enough that I doubt anybody unsubscribes, has 300,000 users. Even if they're retaining 30% of their users (and keeping them as active), that still isn't even close to 8 million.
  - jorgeortiz85 16y ago
    Most reddit users probably don't have accounts.
  - JesseAldridge 16y ago
    Hmm, good point. The 8 million number comes from the blog post. Maybe the vast majority of people who visit the site don't bother to create an account?
  - pavs 16y ago
    They had 8 million unique visitors in last month: http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/co29o/congratulations_reddit/c0u0pf3 http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/co29o/c... To put things in to context, reddit ran a haiti donation campaign which was heavily promoted through their ad spaces and blog postings and individual "donation drive threads" and they raised $185k from 3783 users over a period of ~30 days. They broke their first 100k within 12 hours. So if they got 6000 people to donate within 48 hours or so, that pretty damn good, over next few weeks as they add subscription only features its bound to get much much higher number as it gets promoted more. http://dri.convio.net/site/TR?pg=fund&fr_id=1030&pxfid=1511 http://dri.convio.net/site/TR?pg=fund&fr_id=1030&pxf... They didn't release the money amount yet because they are waiting for "confirmation" from higher up to reveal the numbers.

nphase 16y ago

I guess people _will_ pay to keep something they love alive. Great to see humanity at work.

xelfer 16y ago

Contributors can view the list of contributors who have specified their username on the paypal checkout form (it's probably not public) at http://www.reddit.com/r/lounge/about/contributors http://www.reddit.com/r/lounge/about/contributors - it's currently at 5715 donators. No word on amounts yet though, a few people are doing surveys in the subreddit.