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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @cointastical 13 Apr 2022
This Substack article on NY Times is relevant I think to Stacker News.
The authors are writing for the revenue from subscribers. But Substack is a subscription service, so if they are actually adding social media (e.g., comment replies to posts and podcasts) that doesn't really add to that author's revenue.
Whereas an author who posts on SN gets revenue not just from those upvoting and tipping, but also from the tips on the comments. Sure, SN is starting out with a userbase below where Substack was even many years ago, but the barrier to entry is less on SN. Additionally, relevant, I think -- when a writer on SN gets sats they have access to those sats (and can withdraw their balance) instantly. I might be more willing to reply to comments I see on SN when I can see from previous replies exactly how much was received on which comments, etc. I become better at it because I am economically rewarded when I do a good job at it.
There are a number of other takeaways from the aritcle (and response from Substack) -- worth a read!
Substack’s Growth Spurt Brings Growing Pains | NY Times
#19757
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/business/media/substack-growth-newsletters.html
https://archive.ph/Xy4jY
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 14 Apr 2022
ATH today!!!
Looks like the Highest single day, for Unique Visitors metric, in SN's history (breaking the previous daily high which has held since Aug 30, 2021, which was 886):
https://plausible.io/stacker.news?period=month&date=2022-04-30
And it also looks like total of that metric will top 1,000, which is another first.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @nout 13 Apr 2022
I saw the post from @BTCsessions (this one) and I thought again that it would be great if there's a way to separate comments from context:
- "Provide Context": Separate ability for people to provide "context" to posts... context could still get upvoted, etc., but as a user I'd be able to select whether I see context or comments (context could even have a separate section right below the post). Having a structural representation of articles and their context, is a really powerful dataset that could be in future used for various things including ranking of the content. Not just WoT of users, but of domains as well... ;)
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 13 Apr 2022
WoT of domains! 🤯 Hello google
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 13 Apr 2022
;)
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @notgeld 13 Apr 2022
Kaiser's eagles auction ends in 1 day.
Two original Reichsbank bills from "Belle epoque".
https://simple-auction.etleneum.com/#auction-co6n9jami
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @notgeld 13 Apr 2022
https://telegra.ph/Simple-Auction-Proof-of-Story-100-German-imperial-marks-red-and-green-postmark-04-01
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin 13 Apr 2022
SN got a mention in the latest Lightning Labs newsletter:
Bitcoinizing the Dollar, and the World, with Lightning 💸⚡🌍
#19626
https://lightninglabs.substack.com/p/bitcoinizing-the-dollar-and-the-world
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52 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 13 Apr 2022
Hey-o, we have fivvvveeee jobs now!
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Brunswick1 13 Apr 2022
Are these only for bitcoin jobs? I am wanting to interview people looking for FTE positions in embedded controls engineering.
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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13 Apr 2022
That's the intent, but you can post any job you'd think would be appealing to the Bitcoiners on here.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 13 Apr 2022
Hmmm need to figure out how to incentivize people upvoting good content. A lot of stuff goes unnoticed in 'recent'.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 13 Apr 2022
I have this impulse to add big new features but I suspect most users just want the features that we do have to get better.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13 Apr 2022
I just updated the default tip for new users to 10 sats. Let's see how that goes.
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