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Can Fountain take a page from Stacker News playbook?

2902 sats \ 33 comments \ @Entrep 20 Nov 2023 meta

The reward system of Fountain is trailing off ergo a decline in usability. I believe if they can adopt @SN reward based formula they can push for some serious engagement on their platform. SN is already on a high with this formula. Fountain is a great project I believe can topple the likes of Spotify in podcasting.

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700 sats \ 1 reply \ @MerryOscar 21 Nov 2023

#317905

I agree that the Stacker News rewards setup is much better than the slightly random rewards on Fountain - as I say in the above post as soon as Fountain 1.0 is ready we will look at the earning rewards again.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 21 Nov 2023

keep up the good work, love your app

431 sats \ 8 replies \ @OT 20 Nov 2023

I should start using fountain. Its just that I listen to pods offline so wouldn't be able to stream sats

1621 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 20 Nov 2023

You can just give one-time boosts to the creators then.

1815 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 20 Nov 2023

i like combining the boost with a comment feature :)

1110 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 20 Nov 2023

and someday that feature will replace super chats in a lightning alternative to YouTube

783 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bullen 20 Nov 2023

It already works like that at zap.stream, no?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 20 Nov 2023

You are correct, I think. However, we're a little ways off from that being a real YouTube alternative. I'd love to see it take off.

783 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bullen 20 Nov 2023

You and me both.

It needs some UX touch ups, cause right now it feels like "we have YouTube at home"

And also, as everything in bitcoin space: needs more adoption, i.e. creators and users. I'm using it daily to stream some NoGood radio, so I'm doing my part 😅

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 20 Nov 2023

Be the change

I'll try to work it into my internet routine.

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728 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 20 Nov 2023

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430 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 20 Nov 2023

Man, is supposed to GIVE sats to podcasters, not to take from them. is V4V not assmilking...

608 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 21 Nov 2023

Exactly. Fountain rewards are really about seeding sats to users so they can give them to podcasters.

SN is similar. If you add value you get value back. Its not about milking value from the site.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 21 Nov 2023

Beautiful explanation. We need a meme with that.

105 sats \ 8 replies \ @siggy47 20 Nov 2023

Can you be more specific regarding the steps you would like to see fountain take?

860 sats \ 7 replies \ @DarthCoin 20 Nov 2023

TLDR

622 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 20 Nov 2023

A picture is worth a thousand words

1192 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 20 Nov 2023

Assmilking others, Stolen sats are never earned.. They are the victim?

24 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 20 Nov 2023

What you lack lately in quantity you make up for with quality.

632 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 20 Nov 2023

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872 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 20 Nov 2023

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24 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 20 Nov 2023

wait... my intention wasn't to assmilk you with this gif... 😂😂😂😂😂

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 20 Nov 2023

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133 sats \ 0 replies \ @go 20 Nov 2023

Can SN buy fountain???

105 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 20 Nov 2023

I'm not sure what you have in mind exactly, but I agree Fountain has a lot of room for improvement and could potentially develop really good engagement.

I'd love to see clips and comments become much bigger.

934 sats \ 0 replies \ @MerryOscar 21 Nov 2023

Fountain 1.0 is almost ready and has a massive ux improvement with clips and comments - stay tuned!

106 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitByBit21 20 Nov 2023

Perhaps @MerryOscar might weigh in

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 21 Nov 2023

Pushing the circular economy forward with every sat spent

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 21 Nov 2023

👏👏👏

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 20 Nov 2023

I know Oscar was nice enough to provide feedback to many of us last week, but my app has been crashing for over a month. So basically about one day a week the app actually works. Hopefully it works again soon. I’ve basically given up at this point as the app won’t even let me submit a support ticket anymore.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Dash_1971 20 Nov 2023

I had to give up on Fountain finally. Nothing to do with the rewards. If anything I was a net booster. But the bugs just got too much.