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I tried it, and can’t remember why I removed it. I think it wasn’t straight forward to read articles, and it wasn’t really clear how the user can control the micropayments.
Journalists won’t accept this but it was also a test of the degree to which they’re the center of the conversation in this media space.
What it should have been is exclude the social media crap, create a browser extension that charges users and allows them to get through the paywalls, then it pays the journals.
Using a separate app makes the whole thing more of a hindrance than convenience. I want to be able to click on an article posted anywhere, load it in my mobile browser, and seamlessly get charged a couple cents to read the article.