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The simple fact is that you need money to host a site, to have moderation, to develop and maintain features etc. The problem apps are shutting down is because
by YetAnotherNick 3y ago
The simple fact is that you need money to host a site, to have moderation, to develop and maintain features etc.
The problem apps are shutting down is because they don't want to loose money. If they make a new site, they will likely loose even more money. And they likely can't get profitable without resorting to same scummy behaviour as reddit.
- peanuty1 3y agoReddit moderators are unpaid volunteers.
- elbigbad 3y agoAnd among the worst sorts of people imaginable. Maybe they should be paid positions that are interviewed for and regularly undergo performance reviews.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>The problem apps are shutting down is because they don't want to loose money. If they make a new site, they will likely loose even more money. Given the quotes I heard, I'd be very surprised if you lost more money in say, 2 years of building and hosting a new site than trying to even support a month of API calls from reddit c. July 2023. You can certainly make a decent front end for little cost (even if we're talking about paying competitive rates to a few talented mobile devs) and a small backend won't cost much more. It's always about the community to gather to make all that work. That's the hard part.