According to Alexa rankings, saidit.net is now in the top 10,000 most-visited American websites

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[–]magnora7[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

We're ranked #9,621 in the US today and #43,950 globally. Saidit just keeps growing and growing!

And look at the growth in google searches for the term "saidit": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2018-05-09%202020-06-09&geo=US&q=saidit

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

nice trend!

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Very nice. I would like to inquire as to how this site is facing the growing cost of the increased traffic? I haven't seen any advertising or anything like that. Do you have plans to deal with the financial aspect of your site?

[–]magnora7[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Yeah we're funded by donations and our donations basically match our expenditures, and we work hard to keep that number low. There's donations links in the footer if anyone is interested in helping. That's how we're able to not have ads, and avoid bad incentives

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ah, yes. Never noticed those before. Thank you.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No problem. We're currently only $9/mo short of covering our expenses through donations

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm no expert, but I wonder if a support link in the header might help. Somewhere that it doesn't get in the way, but will at least subconsciously be noticeable and politely remind people how the site funds itself.

I honestly never even thought about this aspect of this site until I read this comment thread. And I don't think I ever scrolled to the bottom before. I think there is a good balance to be had between making it easy to send money and not hitting people over the head with it.

Just sent some BCH.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

We already have a link in the footer... and we advertise it somewhat frequently.

Here's the links for anyone who wants to donate:

https://www.patreon.com/SaidIt

https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/jf/cryptocurrency_support_for_saiditnet/

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

yea... but people don't scroll down far enough to see footers that often.

Top left of the header is a nice empty spot. ;]

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I've said this many times.

I even created an "announcement box" at the top right of my CSS (/s/DecentralizeAllThings/) to put important messages and/or short links to other things, stuff, junk, trivia, and of course donation options.

[–]comments 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

and avoid bad incentives

Well, the money or funding still has to come from somewhere, and if you're reliant on it to survive, wherever it comes from will have that over the site.

I like not having ads, but I'm not sure if this is really a solvable problem.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

wherever it comes from will have that over the site.

To a degree, but if it's distrubted evenly across 12 donors, then no one donor can really call the shots.

Whereas if we have one big angel investor, or one big advertiser, we're basically completely beholden to their wishes.

So I think we've actually made progress on this problem.