Ask HN: What do you think of Reddit's user supported monetization.
So Reddit has really been pushing it&#x27;s &quot;Reddit Gold&quot; membership thing lately which is mostly a vanity membership with the explicit purpose of &quot;keeping the servers running with support from the community&quot;.<p>They have a little progress bar that resets each day giving users a visual way to see how much support Reddit needs and how much Reddit gold the users bought that day to help towards the progress.<p>I&#x27;ve been paying attention to this for a couple weeks now, and it seems to be working out really well for them. For example, today they hit 169% of their daily goal...which is awesome to see! The users are voluntarily paying for the site; something that in our ad-driven-and-supported-services world seems to be a crazy notion.<p>What do you all think about this? Can any Reddit devs or employees chime in? Has anyone tried anything similar to this before?