veryyy Launches StumbleUpon 2.0 With $0 Free Tier, Drops $3.99 Subscription Test
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Updated · How-To Geek · Jun 29
veryyy Launches StumbleUpon 2.0 With $0 Free Tier, Drops $3.99 Subscription Test
2 articles · Updated · How-To Geek · Jun 29
Summary
StumbleUpon 2.0 went live over the weekend as an anonymous, mobile-first web discovery site, with creator veryyy shifting it to a donation-based model after backlash over an earlier paid test.
A $3.99-a-month or 99-cents-a-week pro option had briefly appeared, but veryyy said the paywall experiment would be removed to cover API costs without ads or venture funding.
The project is not affiliated with the original StumbleUpon or Mix, and the site says anonymous stumbling will remain free while links are manually vetted.
veryyy, a data scientist, said the project grew from a belief that modern web discovery is broken and that recommendation algorithms shape reality too heavily.