How are you going to pay for it? Subscription model doesn't work for search/social networks.
- Comments are ephemeral, expiring after two weeks (no growing storage costs)
- "Reddit Gold" helps to offset costs
- Run Wikipedia-like donation drives yearly
- Write everything in bare-metal Rust so that CPU is cheap. Likewise, make intelligent choices about schema and service design for scalability.
- Don't continue to drive unnecessary feature work (that is usually just to drive ad engagement and growth).
- Comments are ephemeral, expiring after two weeks (no growing storage costs)
- "Reddit Gold" helps to offset costs
- Run Wikipedia-like donation drives yearly
- Write everything in bare-metal Rust so that CPU is cheap. Likewise, make intelligent choices about schema and service design for scalability.
- Don't continue to drive unnecessary feature work (that is usually just to drive ad engagement and growth).