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by edgyquant 1174 days ago
> there are better ways to do it than charging readers.

No, there isn’t. Let me guess, running ads?

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It seems to me that they heard a suggestion for the site to be made available only to people who pay and the suggester was instead suggesting that there be a donation / "buy me a beer" link.

Indeed, there are ways to monetize such a thing that exclude both charging all of your users and selling advertisement space.