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90% of revenues go to moderators and power users.... and where exactly are these revenues coming from? So far, all these alternatives I'm reading about can't c

90% of revenues go to moderators and power users.... and where exactly are these revenues coming from? So far, all these alternatives I'm reading about can't convincingly explain how they plan to pay for themselves.

Hasu 3y ago
> So far, all these alternatives I'm reading about can't convincingly explain how they plan to pay for themselves. For most of its existence, Reddit hasn't been able to convincingly explain how it can pay for itself, and it still can't. The company currently isn't and I don't think has ever been profitable.
- Mengkudulangsat 3y ago
  Which is why Reddit got into its current predicament in the first place. Profits may be optional (depending on the goals of the organization), but breakeven is mandatory.
throwawaylala1 3y ago
looks like they're crypto guys so there's that
0x0203 3y ago
Honest question: roughly how much would running a link-aggregator website like (early) reddit actually cost, assuming text only user-submissions (links/comments), 50 million daily users, and an uptime similar to reddit? If one magically had the users and wasn't interested in personal profit, how cheaply could it be done effectively?
- memefrog 3y ago
  50 million daily users is a lot. In ~2012, Reddit apparently had ~1.5m DAU. That was still a pretty decent website. Pulling random numbers out of the hat, maybe each daily active user makes 5 requests per day, on average? Many might just open up one thread, but a Pareto distribution means a small percentage would make hundreds of requests per day. So maybe more than 5? To be conservative, let's say 10. So that's 15m requests per day. That's about 200 per second. Couldn't you do that on a single server using just PHP? Obviously these are just ballpark estimates but really. When you say uptime similar to reddit, do you mean uptime similar to reddit now? Or similar to early reddit? Early reddit constantly threw errors at busy times.

Hasu 3y ago

> So far, all these alternatives I'm reading about can't convincingly explain how they plan to pay for themselves. For most of its existence, Reddit hasn't been able to convincingly explain how it can pay for itself, and it still can't. The company currently isn't and I don't think has ever been profitable.

Mengkudulangsat 3y ago
Which is why Reddit got into its current predicament in the first place. Profits may be optional (depending on the goals of the organization), but breakeven is mandatory.

throwawaylala1 3y ago

looks like they're crypto guys so there's that

0x0203 3y ago

Honest question: roughly how much would running a link-aggregator website like (early) reddit actually cost, assuming text only user-submissions (links/comments), 50 million daily users, and an uptime similar to reddit? If one magically had the users and wasn't interested in personal profit, how cheaply could it be done effectively?

memefrog 3y ago
50 million daily users is a lot. In ~2012, Reddit apparently had ~1.5m DAU. That was still a pretty decent website. Pulling random numbers out of the hat, maybe each daily active user makes 5 requests per day, on average? Many might just open up one thread, but a Pareto distribution means a small percentage would make hundreds of requests per day. So maybe more than 5? To be conservative, let's say 10. So that's 15m requests per day. That's about 200 per second. Couldn't you do that on a single server using just PHP? Obviously these are just ballpark estimates but really. When you say uptime similar to reddit, do you mean uptime similar to reddit now? Or similar to early reddit? Early reddit constantly threw errors at busy times.