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I've got my 7 year badge but I don't go back anymore. I'm aged out. The front page doesn't interest me, the memes don't resonate with me, and the reposts don't

I've got my 7 year badge but I don't go back anymore. I'm aged out. The front page doesn't interest me, the memes don't resonate with me, and the reposts don't keep me. It'll keep happening, year after year as most people age out. But year after year more people join up, I'm sure there's a net again. Enough of a momentum that it will just take decades before the decay happens. Radical changes also risk a Digg implosion. Tough nut to crack. They've been taking every trick from the old forum (SomethingAwful, General Mayhem, OffTopic, GaiaOnline) days other than literally charging for membership. Which is always the final cashing out death knell. Common refrain in the past when positing how the community is turning and reducing value the default rah rah answer has always been to hit the edgy subreddits rather than the mainstream ones. That changes the value of the reddit product from a community to community software. My small business projects rely on subreddits for customer service. Give me customization tools and I'll eagerly pay. After all, it's like vBulletin but better and people out of the wazoo for that.

oblio 12y ago
There are people who follow the front page? I don't think I could understand this. In my view the value of reddit, as you pointed out, is in the subreddits: somewhat peer reviewed focused forums with a much better interface than the PHP forums of old. And that's where the money is, IMO. Just as you said, offering enterprisey features for them could rake in a ton of cash.
yzzxy 12y ago
Charging for admission has always struck me, at least in the case of SA, as a tactic to guard the community against, essentially, trolls and children. Not as a moneymaking scheme.
- plorkyeran 12y ago
  SA has also charged for registration for the vast majority of its existence (it was created in 1999 and started charging in 2001), so if it was supposed to be a cash-out before the site died it was a very poorly timed one.
roghummal 12y ago
>I've got my 7 year badge but I don't go back anymore. I'm aged out. ... >My small business projects rely on subreddits for customer service. k.
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oblio 12y ago

There are people who follow the front page? I don't think I could understand this. In my view the value of reddit, as you pointed out, is in the subreddits: somewhat peer reviewed focused forums with a much better interface than the PHP forums of old. And that's where the money is, IMO. Just as you said, offering enterprisey features for them could rake in a ton of cash.

yzzxy 12y ago

Charging for admission has always struck me, at least in the case of SA, as a tactic to guard the community against, essentially, trolls and children. Not as a moneymaking scheme.

plorkyeran 12y ago
SA has also charged for registration for the vast majority of its existence (it was created in 1999 and started charging in 2001), so if it was supposed to be a cash-out before the site died it was a very poorly timed one.

roghummal 12y ago

>I've got my 7 year badge but I don't go back anymore. I'm aged out. ... >My small business projects rely on subreddits for customer service. k.

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