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by gremlinsinc 2429 days ago
I'd like to see a SO clone that has a subscription model that's optional but then when you upvote something you're giving that person some SO cash which they can cashout or apply to their monthly subscription.

Subscriptions would be a 'name your price' model, site would take like 10% + 2.8(stripe fees).

Questions would drop off indexes, related questions, etc after 1 year - but remain visible for 3 years, moderators can flag evergreen content as 'eternal', if they deem it likely to be relevant in 5-10 years, or part of pop culture...maybe have some flags they can give it like reddit posts. Archived | Popularity-extended-life.

Perhaps make invisible posts still visible to contributors, saved bookmarks, etc if logged in, but definitely won't show up unauthenticated or in google.

I think combining SO w/ something like codementor as well and code reviews would make for a good business model imho, really there's a lot of stuff in the 'learning to code space' that could apply.. could even have different views for questions --for instance people could post a video instead of text for a response, then you could auto load text or video or 'unified' views.

Lately I find myself using reddit more than SO, so maybe a customized reddit that's geared just for tech would be better... with slack-like communities built in, but the ability to wikify/read the chat logs online for further help/context.

Something that's broken by subtopics like reddit or into 'channels', w/ chat, wiki, and maybe built in awesome-lists, dev-docs, dev-tools, etc would be pretty sick.

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Something like experts-exchange.com?
And so we come full circle...
It should be 100% free for all features...the subscription model is more like Patreon meets Medium, where money is pooled and shared w/ contributors who provide the most value.

Except unlike Medium there is no paywall. No limits on views/etc...

Even with those fake internet points, Stackoverflow has the problem 0f voting ring, throw money in, and they will only get worse. Then your focus moves away from building content to optimizing against voting rings.
Why would anyone pay? There needs to be some incentive.
The only problem I see with dropping posts from indexes or visibility on age is not all topics move at the same rate. For example, a JS front-end topic might be dated after only a year, but a question about some systems programming issue or slower moving topics might still be relevant after several years.

Yesterday I was searching for utilities to find and remove duplicate files and a stackexchange question was returned. I was skeptical of the results since many were dated from 2011-2012, and I think they indeed were out of date, but sorting the comments by most recent lead me to jdupes which appears to be the best current solution for that problem.