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I have another question, is profit a motive for HN? It does not appear to be. Before HN there was slashdot.org, whicj is still around. Slashdot lost the thread

by mybrid 6y ago

I have another question, is profit a motive for HN? It does not appear to be. Before HN there was slashdot.org, whicj is still around. Slashdot lost the thread I think because of revenue concerns and change of ownership. If this place is truly 100% a finacial loss then it does seem to validate yet again that news for profit is a bad idea because the news is soon compromised in the name of more viewership to drive ad revenue. If Reddit went 100% loss then I'm sure better moderation decisions would be available to them, likewise for Twitter and Facebook.

fsflover 6y ago
> is profit a motive for HN? Sort of. AFAIK HN get money from this https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs and this https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/.
dang 6y ago
I've answered this a few times - if you're interested, take a look at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=yc%20business%20interests%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If you still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd like to know what it is.