Reddit Gold is not really "begging". They allow you to set your own price for an enhanced set of features. While Reddit Gold is mostly about expressing your support for Reddit, it's not a straight up donation, and Reddit didn't spend two months with a banner at 25% screen height with a bearded kn0thing or ketralnis staring down the userbase.
We weren't really begging for money. We needed money, we let people know that, and then we let people set their own price because we had no idea what the price should be, so we crowdsourced it.
We can't talk about our revenue, but I'll just say, we're still here and will be here for a while yet.
Becoming more clear every day that either the site is short a few, maybe a dozen plus, servers. Or the design has reached an inflection point of some sort.
