$13 is asking a lot. Anyway, I'm quite safe as Youtube Red isn't available in Russia.
*** And you don't have to pay for DW anyway, but enough do to keep it afloat. That's a good model for a social network I think***
That depends on what features are available to only paid users. That is, you need to be clear whether your network is essentially donationware or paid users get some serious exclusive features, in which case you gonna cripple your platform for most. Also it's still an open question if the model is viable for a network as huge as FB. But I of course agree that an ad-free site has a cleaner feel to it. On the other hand, if you pay for hosting anyway, finding ways to make your stand alone blog connected may be the way to go. No network will let you be as free as a stand-alone. Never searched images on the duck, will give it a try. Telegram has public channels. You subscribe to channels and create your own. I don't know if there's a limit to how many channels you can create, but multiple for sure. Some are bot channels where people can get automatic answers or trigger some automatic actions, but I haven't really looked into it.
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Date: 2017-11-13 08:12 pm (UTC)*** And you don't have to pay for DW anyway, but enough do to keep it afloat. That's a good model for a social network I think***
That depends on what features are available to only paid users. That is, you need to be clear whether your network is essentially donationware or paid users get some serious exclusive features, in which case you gonna cripple your platform for most. Also it's still an open question if the model is viable for a network as huge as FB.
But I of course agree that an ad-free site has a cleaner feel to it. On the other hand, if you pay for hosting anyway, finding ways to make your stand alone blog connected may be the way to go. No network will let you be as free as a stand-alone.
Never searched images on the duck, will give it a try.
Telegram has public channels. You subscribe to channels and create your own. I don't know if there's a limit to how many channels you can create, but multiple for sure. Some are bot channels where people can get automatic answers or trigger some automatic actions, but I haven't really looked into it.