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How often do people ask to talk to a manager?

Also, where do you guys get the crack that you put in your coffee?

Couple of thoughts, with the caveat that the subreddit and website aren’t mutually exclusive. They don’t have to choose. It can instead harness the best aspects of both platforms.

• With a website they can personally benefit from organic search for all of these long tail topics and keywords.

• With a website they can more easily convert visitors into subscribers (mailing list, sms, browser push, etc) and then have permission to market to them on an ongoing basis.

• With a website they can sell content and merch which they can use to fund like minded projects.

• With a website they are not beholden to Reddit’s policies, terms of use, algorithms, poor interface decisions, etc.

• With a website they can run display ads, integrated campaigns, sponsored content, and other monetization methods.

On Reddit, they are merely digital sharecroppers.

This may have the highest text-to-plug ratio of any answer ever posted to this sub. Tons of text. Zero plugs. Very cool.

How do feel about Space Corps?

(Also, you should update your OP with proof.)

Less people will see it

Less people who are on reddit will see it, but the vast majority of people are not on Reddit.

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it has a worse UX

Based on OPs reply below, the ability to create a more purpose-driven UI is one of the key reasons they want to have their own site.

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we get to make money off your labor

The alternate option is to give more money to Advance Publications (parent company of Reddit's parent company) who have plenty of money already.