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> If they just took a fundraising approach like how public radio and Wikipedia do People notoriously _hate_ both these group's approach to funding.
by chrisseaton 5y ago
> If they just took a fundraising approach like how public radio and Wikipedia do
People notoriously _hate_ both these group's approach to funding.
- brimble 5y agoPublic Radio wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't also constantly run ads.
- colejohnson66 5y agoThey have to sometimes because the donations (sadly) aren't always enough
- brimble 5y agoIt's more than "sometimes", these days. They've long moved on from a quick "this program made possible by..." to straight up reading ads on air, frequently. Between that and all the time they spend promoting their own programs, plus the pledge drives, I doubt their content/non-content time is any better than most commercial radio. Maybe worse.
- notriddle 5y agoAlso, Wikipedia is able to make so much money from just donations because their target audience is "literally everyone." MDN has a smaller set of users, and the thing with running websites with user-generated content is that it scales up pretty well. MDN probably only costs about a tenth as much as Wikipedia to run, but has much, must less than a tenth as many users.
- wolverine876 5y agoThe evidence says otherwise: They donate a lot to those organizations and use them heavily.