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Definitely thinking about this stuff, but we're being very careful about what we're incentivizing. Tying income with pageviews on a specific story leads to clickbait and "7 celebs without makeup" kinds of stories. We want the app to be where people choose to go for news, not just clicking via social or aggregators.

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I couldn't agree more! I'm working at https://readup.com/, we're making a general-purpose reading app where reads-to-completion are the basis for monetization as opposed to clicks or views. Together with reader ratings it really helps to reduce (even eliminate) clickbait.

I think our missions are quite aligned! We're mostly trying to incentivize & monetize the deep reading of medium- & long-form stories on the web. If that's something Forth is also going into (next to streams of shorter updates?), we may be able to collaborate!

We've been working on the shorter side of things -- but I'd love to talk more -- lets see if we can find a time? jared (at) nillium (dot) com

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