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The sad thing is that having a high quality site seems to be actually worth little to the owners of the site. If your income is advertising, engagement and use
by joe_the_user 3y ago
The sad thing is that having a high quality site seems to be actually worth little to the owners of the site.
If your income is advertising, engagement and users with little impulse control seem to be the thing that brings value. And there seem to be few other ways to monetize a site.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoExactly. The only thing that really makes HN "work" is that YC has a very different incentive structure for what they get out of this site, versus all the other news aggregator/social media sites out there who need to maximize revenue.