I think by now atleast some users would have started to come from google search. If google picks up our site, then more and more users will likely come organically.

I agree with you. We shouldn’t be promoting suck dark things. Indirect memes are okay but if paired with real photograph it’s disturbing for sure.

Exactly.

Thanks for your detailed post analyzing it to core.

I have also found the same problem. There are many great users of this site who write well, logically and knows what is fun meme and what is crossing the line. The initial days were full of such people and content. But over time, the thing I predicted in that old comment happened and content quality deteriorated. I read that foreign analysis, and it is fully biased and a propaganda piece, even twisting what I said in my comment.

Anyways, as I got busy with the problems of life, I myself found it less and less interesting in visiting and browsing this site due to this. And I think it would have happened to many users like me.

Is there any solution to this problem? I have seen this happen over and over in many communities, and other than attracting lots of audience, or being ban/censor heavy, there doesn’t seem to a solution. But then, you need right people to mod it such that they are only removing bad content and not content that go against their views. That is also not easy.

Great work

Will do soon. Got busy with somethings.

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Mods can contact me and will tell you. I have messaged

yea you can. Maybe also add the watermark if possible.

If we need to hire developers, permanent person for marketing etc, then around 40k to 70k rupees per month during the initial days to give them a sort of salary replacement in crypto.

If we just need to continue this site with no changes, improvement in security, redundancy etc, then around Rs 3k to 7k per month.

We can add Paytm and UPI, but then we will have to ban all controversial topics from the site just like all other social media sites do.

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UPI is not anonymous.

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Thats awesome. I have messaged you

Though it may change soon, with one committed user :)

Hehe, I meant couple of thousand rupees. Well, site is small right now, and we don’t have any secondary servers for redundancy or load balancers as of now. But, yea in the future with lot of users, costs can increase.

Yea. we currently have the link in sidebar as it was posted just two days ago. But yes, it will be added to header soon.

How much do you need per month to run the operations?

I can currently take care of the operational costs. That is not much of an issue. It is couple of thousand rupees per month. What we need funds for is to add features, hire people, increase redundancies to both server and site’s codebase, fix security bugs etc.

BTW, you can always use another 3rd party in Russia etc

Yea that is great idea. You find out more details on how other sites operate, and let me know.

Yea, that is part of the plan.

And great to know you were an OG users of those sites from early ages of Internet.

A couple of thousand per month will be enough to keep the server ongoing, and the basic things taken care of, assuming there is no drastic increase in traffic.

But, yes hiring people for development and marketing is where the real cost is. If enough people contribute, then we can make that happen.

Ads with Indian users and unfocused content pays one of the lowest. It is usually not worth it. Also, it means significantly less anonymity. Affiliate links will work much better. I am thinking in that direction for future. With the current size of userbase, it also won’t be significant. But lets see that in future.

I just checked zebpay’s fees.

I dont think they have option of withdrawing as Monero.

Your best option would be to convert to BCH (Bitcoin Cash) and send it to our BCH address.

Thanks.

Thank you for thinking of the future. We have plans to maybe change the name of the site to something more appealing. We will announce it beforehand, and if the majority of users like the new name, we will move ahead with it.

And then, we plan to develop more features. But for that, we either need funds to hire or need some really dedicated and talented volunteers. We are a bit too small right now to have a big enough pool of users to get such volunteers as of now. So, it will take time.

And yes, we are hoping good posts will start showing up in Google searches soon, and that will become a source for organic growth of users after around 6 months. Till then, there are several attempts to promote it on Reddit, Twitter and youtube comments.

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