I made a comment in that thread that seems to have disappeared where I said the same thing, but I think there is more that you guys could do to entice subscribe

I made a comment in that thread that seems to have disappeared where I said the same thing, but I think there is more that you guys could do to entice subscribers. Things like image hosting would be huge. Let me save images that I use frequently, show me some relevant ads, I don't care. Email alerts would also be big. Email me (include an ad in the email) when somebody responds to a message of mine (but please, not for if they reply to a self post). Let me have the option of displaying images in the thread. yeah, yeah, I know there is javascript that I can use to do this, but do it on the server side for me. That would be great. One thing that we do on my website (which isn't big enough for it to really be a huge feature) is the ability for users to write blog posts, these carry a lot more weight than self posts. Here is a blog I wrote using it: http://newslily.com/blog/permalink.cgi?blog_id=96 http://newslily.com/blog/permalink.cgi?blog_id=96 can you imagine this as a self post? What's cool about this is that users can link to it as if it were an article of their own. I think you'd get a lot of really amazing articles out of the reddit community if you opened up something like this. Let the gold members do something like it; they'd love it. Here is another thing we do that I would love to see reddit do: http://newslily.com/hn/hnlily.cgi http://newslily.com/hn/hnlily.cgi (wrapped up in the HN clone layout that I did a while ago) It's a feed of what your friends are doing. I saw that you guys added a "friends" link that shows me links my friends have submitted? That's cool, but I would love to see their comments as well. I'm sure that this would be more server-intensive, but it would also be a great way of finding more stuff to talk about. I think gold members would think this was really cool (I would). I'm not trying to say that the things we're doing are oh-so-cool and that the things you're doing aren't, I'm just saying that you guys have got an amazing opportunity with a community that completely loves you, is very loyal, and is FREAKING HUGE. (Okay, there is a bit of jealousy there...I wish I could try ideas out on the scale that you guys can). Howabout custom colors? HN does this after you hit a certain karma threshold. Sell this to the gold members for $4/mo. I hope this reddit gold is a huge success for you guys. Just please invite me on the yacht someday :-P.