[Wuli]

A “subscription model” was not my suggestion.

I sugessted that the ideas offered in the orginal post on this thread did not include a financial model. I also said ideas - about a social media platform - were useless without a financial model.

I then suggested that therefor maybe those proposing the idea were expecting to have a “voluntary contribution model”.

I then suggested that IF THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE SUGGESTING, THEN why invent the wheel, just add to and expand FreeRepublic.

But, for myself I am not suggesting either a subscription model or a voluntary contribution model.

I just have a basic problem with any model that does not a include a financial model within it.

[tenger]

I suggested some sort of subscription model in a previous post, just as an example. I have a few ideas about that, but they're just that, ideas. Anything more than that at this point is speculation. Without buy-in of the idea (that Twitter is broken, for example) from a core group of starters, anything more is a waste of time. It's not to say you can't have ideas about it, but you never know until you implement if it's going to work or people would accept it.

So, Wuli, what you are saying is if you know what the financial model is, you'll help with the project? Or you'll consider it?

I mean, a very basic model would combine both ads and subscription. $2/month and no more ads. Text ads if they don't pay. That model is in place in hundreds of thousands of sites across the web. That's as simple as it gets. Would it work? Functionally yes, but would people pay $2 to have a stable platform with no ads? Who know?

I also am not suggesting to add to FR. The platform/site is quite stable without introducing new tech. Why fix what isn't broken?