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by brandnewlow 8y ago
We agree it's confusing and are shipping updates very soon that will make it clear, driven by all the feedback we've received here and on Twitter. We didn't set out to confuse people but clearly we did. Not our intention. We
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
Response posted above! I was waiting to make sure I understood what actions we are taking in response to all the feedback.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
This was not our intention. We shipped a UI/UX that was confusing. We originally used checkmarks to denote creators participating in the program but did not have clear language or markers for creators not participating in then program
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
After all the very passionate feedback yesterday here and on Twitter, we're reworking things to make it clear who's participating in Brave Rewards and will receive tips and who's not and won't. We erred in shipping UI&#
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
We hadn't considered that many creators would interpret our UI/UX as "solicitation" vs. "letting a user do a thing they want to do in our browser." In any event, the confusion is 100% our fault and we're w
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
That's a pretty accurate read on things. We've never actually recycled any funds and also hadn't considered that many creators would interpret our UI/UX as "solicitation" vs. "letting a user do a thing the
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I used "will be" because the product has not actually been launched yet in a release version of Brave.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
Not specifically. But yes, fellow people should be given the benefit of the doubt in my opinion. I was asking if Brave had done something to merit not getting that.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I work at Brave. Tips to un-verified publishers sit in escrow for the creator to claim. IANAL but GDPR refers to personal data collected from users. The only "Youtuber data" being "used" here is publicly gettable data
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
Brave ads will be 100% opt-in.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
We're always trying to make the verification process better. On the one hand, it's a pain. On the other, we don't want to let someone other than you pass themselves off as you. The DNS and HTML snippet methods are similar t
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
Honest question: Why do you suspect that? (I work at Brave. We're all very, very nerdy here. It'd be helpful to understand why a fellow nerd suspects we're up to no good.)
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I am on the business team at Brave. We want people to collect and get paid. It's a huge part of why we come in to work every day, to work on stuff that helps creators get paid. I'm sure there's UI/UX stuff in Patreon tha
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I work at Brave on the business team. This is helpful feedback. Brave is a startup with a small team earnestly building a new thing that combines a browser with a tipping system, with creator tools, with ad blocking... it's ambitious!
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
Citation for "ads in your browser injected by the browser developer"? I work at Brave and don't think this is something the browser does.
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Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features(techcrunch.com)
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I’m a biased investor in the company but if you’re looking for another way to attack the horrible student loan problem in the US check out Goodly. They’re making it easy for employers to offer loan repayment as a benefit. https:/&#x2
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
When investors raise their funds, they pitch a specific model to their LPs. Example: "We're going to invest in a basket of startups whose aggregate value will be $X billion in 5 years and we will own Y% of those companies at that
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Spotify takes minor stake in music distributor DistroKid(reuters.com)
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
It's possible the demographics of the applicant pool did change for Summer 11. Summer 11 (my batch) was the first to apply AFTER Start Fund (Yuri Milner and SVAngel) announced they'd give $150k to every YC company. This program m
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
The problem with this approach is it feels like there are teams of smart people at Google with all of these "outs" in a shared doc and a timeline to slowly close them off one by one. There's no way to "win" in the
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
All the Google reporting is stripped out. The Brave engineering team (I'm on the business team) is very serious about making sure that's all gone. Brave is open source so everyone can check their work.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
More and more publishers are moving to subscriptions and seeing real, sustainable businesses materialize. NYTimes seeing 2/3 of its digital revenue from subscriptions: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/b
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
A new internet where the major players continue making their money but have to adopt more consumer friendly practices.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I second the need for "simpler" solutions like this. At Perfect Audience (where I worked with the CloudForecast team!) we spent a lot on AWS and used vendors to help monitor the spend. Because these vendors were venture backed,
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
This article follows the evolution of the deck. The last one sounds close to what OP is running: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/deck-evolutions-modern-...
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
What do you like about it?
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I think it was unintentional but has played a crucial part in the game's appeal. When you get mana screwed, you feel the same emotional devastation as seeing the house win big in Blackjack. I think that low feeling drives players to t
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
Also, the cockatrice drafting community relies on opensource apps like http://dr4ft.info to run the actual drafts. There's always room for improvement and anyone can host a fork. It'd be great to get more HNers tinkeri
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
https://cockatrice.us/ Install. Log on. Make a deck and join a game or jump into a draft. There's two Dominaria drafts filling up right now. There's no rules engine and it's a bit janky at first, but you can

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