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by Guest9081239812 1y ago
I'm a little confused where you're trying to go with this comment. I develop and maintain a service that has been used by millions of people. I make less net profit than a part-time McDonald's employee. Is this not "cost
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by Guest9081239812 1y ago
It only generates about 15k a year in ad revenue. It's fairly low revenue because: 1. Users are spread around the world. This isn't a site with 70% US visitors. 2. The majority of users run ad block, and this continues to rise. 3.
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by Guest9081239812 1y ago
My site has about 30k active registered users a day. The vast majority are long term members that have been on the site for years, so they're quite dedicated to the service. Even so, only about 50 of them pay to remove advertising.
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by Guest9081239812 2y ago
Nope, it doesn't offer any downloads, or questionable content. The site has strict guidelines against any comments even mentioning piracy. The DMCA notices from Google direct me to the complaint in the Lumen Database. In those notices
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by Guest9081239812 2y ago
I have a forum that receives a high number of DMCA claims. They link to pages on my forum where they claim I'm violating their copyright. However, when I review the pages, the content only mentions the name of a product or service. Ima
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by Guest9081239812 2y ago
I think you're right here. I'm forgetting about "entertainment". This will never replace my visits to HN because it's not efficient. Unless it uses neurolink to beam the information into my mind, that's always
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by Guest9081239812 2y ago
Lots of positive feedback here, but after a quick listen, I'm not a fan. To summarize my thoughts... 1. The experience just feels too sluggish. For example, I opened the HN homepage, skimmed all of the headlines, read the comments on t
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by Guest9081239812 2y ago
I have no problem with anyone plugging their business. I assume the entire purpose of a small project like this one is to generate leads. I just find it disappointing that it's one of the most unnecessarily bloated websites I've s
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by Guest9081239812 2y ago
Why does a one page static site that is a few paragraphs of text use 9.3MB of resources (4MB compressed)? Why is the tiny logo in the corner 1MB? It's absurd, especially when you say your pain point with competitors is them being slow
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by Guest9081239812 2y ago
When it's a crescent shape, it's also more crisp in one direction. So if you hold up a square and make a shadow on the ground, two sides are sharp, two sides are blurry. Or if you look at your own shadow, it's a mix of sharp
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
When a service is being redesigned, I hope improvements to the functionality is what's leading those changes. Causing confusion without any benefits beyond a "more modern look" isn't the best reasoning for a redesign.
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
If any visual adaptation results in substantial user confusion, then why roll out this update which they say is "strictly a change in visual appearance"? If they're going to cause confusion, at least incorporate some addition
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
> Be excited! The tens of thousands of people working in entertainment building other people's visions can now be their own writers, actors, and directors. And they'll find their own fans. It's terrible news for the people
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
I understand growing rapidly, especially for a social network, where you need to quickly reach a certain amount of user content per day to provide value. If you can't get to that point fast enough, then you'll crash and burn. I th
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
Changing the zoom level will typically show these missing results. For example, I just checked my neighborhood. There are 5 restaurants within a few hundred feet of each other rated 4.5+ stars. With my filters set to 4.5+ stars, when I zoom
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
In a different universe, I think the idea could be a valid attempt at dethroning Google. However, after seeing the changes to Reddit the past decade in our current universe, I wouldn't trust those same people to handle search for the w
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
Reddit should have leveraged their content to compete with Google. 1. Improve old.reddit.com instead of creating this terrible Reddit v2 that encourages replacing real content with memes. 2. Build a dedicated Reddit search engine on a short
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
Google Maps is terrible for hiding results. I'll use the filter to show restaurants with a 4.5+ star rating, and it hides dozens of places 4.5+ stars while instead showing results 4.0 - 4.4 stars and even some that have no reviews at a
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
I think this causes further problems as well. These big companies know they can easily be listed at the top of Google, and therefore they pump out low quality articles for every popular key phrase. They can write a "Top 10 X of 2023&qu
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
You might want to check community centres. They typically have all sorts of short term classes and activities taking place. They involve lots of new people in the neighborhood, incorporate a wide range of ages, and it's a casual enviro
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
> The question is how many of those users will move to Reddit's official app after June 30, and how many will look for alternative platforms that aren't so manipulative and abusive. I for one have deleted my Reddit account and
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
> His whole point is that the app isn’t actually worth $20 million a year, which is what they want him to pay. It’s not even worth $10 million. Not to him or Reddit or anyone else. Right now there seems to be two options on the table. 1.
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
I remember I stumbled on a StackOverflow question about my API. I wrote a comment to tell the user a part of the API they were using was being depreciated, and they should change one line to avoid their code failing in the following weeks.
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
> First off, it's abundantly clear that the Apollo dev wasn't actually demanding money. It was a pointed statement that revealed the CEO wasn't being honest about the costs. I disagree, I think the Apollo dev would have ha
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
It's not a deal though. Reddit says the users are worth $20 million in lost advertising. So either Apollo pays the money, the users move to another app that pays, or the users return to the official site and app. Either way, Reddit get
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
It's certainly a strange call. Hey, you want to charge me $20 million per year, so why don't we make it easy and you just pay me $10 million to go quiet? It's really confusing. He wants Reddit to pay $10 million so he isn&#x2
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
It's related to user activity, along the lines of products a user views. The other large tables in the billions of rows are about analyzing how products are performing on other websites over time, helping to determine past and current
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
Agreed. I have a handful of tables with over 2 billion rows and have experienced no issues. One database is 2.5TB in size. I feel like 20 million rows is a relatively small MySQL table.
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
Waveshare has some HDMI displays. They still look overpriced and small though, so I don't consider them great solutions. https://www.waveshare.com/eink-disp.htm
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by Guest9081239812 3y ago
You really underestimate scammers. If you create a popular social network and there is money to be made, they'll find a way. They'll visit a developing country and pay people $5 to hold a fake ID card for a photo or video. Paying

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