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This is a common statement, but every attempt to sell that service has been a dismal failure. See for example blendle.


Nearly every attempt at starting a new aggregation site like hackernews or reddit has been a failure.

I’m not going to switch to a new website where no community exists just so I can pay for news articles. To work it needs to be integrated into an existing, successful aggregation website.


Blendle failed because they went into competition with the papers whose content they reproduced.




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