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I'm actually really unclear on what alleged value Scribd might bring to users. Why do people even use it and/or link to it? As others said, I already have a P
by jholman 12y ago
I'm actually really unclear on what alleged value Scribd might bring to users. Why do people even use it and/or link to it?
As others said, I already have a PDF reader, and unsurprisingly, it works better than Scribd.
- herge 12y agoIt's free pdf hosting.
- shiven 12y agoActually, PDFy is way, way better ... https://pdf.yt https://pdf.yt
- philo23 12y agoI believe it used to be quite useful when your only option to read PDFs was Acrobat which was slow and would often lock up your browser while the plugin loaded. Now that both Firefox and Chrome include built in PDF readers and we've also got other options like SumatraPDF, I see little value in Scribd any more.
- Torn 12y agoIt's easy to host a pdf on it. Most file sharing sites have countdowns / ads / gates to entry instead of just showing the content.
- iancarroll 12y agoExcept Scribd just doesn't show it on mobile...
- jordigh 12y ago> I'm actually really unclear on what alleged value Scribd might bring to users. Why do people even use it and/or link to it? I think it's got something to do with how it's a Y Combinator graduate.
- gohrt 12y agoPDF submissions get mirrored to Scribd, as a YC perk. This submission was Scribd first.
- dang 12y agoThe software used to put an additional link to Scribd after each pdf link, but we stopped that a long time ago. I assume that's what you're referring to, because there was never (and isn't) anything else along those lines that I know of.
- DanBC 12y agoI think that a link to a PDF will be converted to a Scribd link by the YCombinator software because scribd is a ycombinator company. That might not still happen.
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- aranjedeath 12y agoThey have a mistaken belief that it's a PDF host. It's not, in the words of its founder. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034431
- pasbesoin 12y agoRestricted access and thereby monetization. Some years ago, while helping a relative out, I saw this first hand with a bunch of Joomla documentation that had been removed to behind its paywall. (Not that I hadn't already reached this opinion, on a more general basis.) P.S. I would welcome a non-Scribd link to the letter. I've reached the point where I refuse to run/use Scribd. The monetization is one thing; the horrible UI and my lack of trust in it is another and is the basis for this decision.