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by rootusrootus 1736 days ago
While it is not conducive to monetizing a platform, maybe we should have forums which are arbitrarily limited to a manageable number of people. r/politics claims to have 7.7M subscribers. That defies common sense. And 30K people online right now. Even if these numbers are inflated, they're completely nuts. It seems inevitable that when you put that many people in a room, the crazy ones take over.
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I actually entertain a similar idea often. A service with a limited number of customers/clients/subscribers.

Enough for the developer(s) to make a living and provide quality.

It very much goes against common business sense, though.

Right along with my idea to make a Facebook-alike that has no tracking, no ads, etc, but costs $20/year. Another dead end business idea.