> trying to appeal to an audience 10 times larger than the current user base would really mean sanitizing the platform and losing what made it successful in the

> trying to appeal to an audience 10 times larger than the current user base would really mean sanitizing the platform and losing what made it successful in the first place (and the users who cared about it). This hasn't stopped any media company I'm aware of As long as they successfully capture a larger audience than the original diehard users that cared about it, then the original users can go pound sand Of course this generally winds up being "we captured a 3x larger audience for a while and have steadily dwindled since then" while the original 1x sized audience would likely have remained relatively consistent forever