When I think about an account type, the additions to the Basic features I'd make would be along the lines of:
* Increase tracking subscriptions (100?) * Increase recent comment view (50?) * Allow comment editing * Allow comment expansion * Ability to receive notifications to individual comment threads * Ability to receive copies of comments you make in other journals
Pretty simple features that aren't very expensive to offer and probably won't cannibalize the full paid accounts much, since there's no more icons and no search, which are popular but expensive.
Additionally, this paid account type would only be purchaseable by the year (and maybe half year, too), so that processing fees won't eat it up.
I'd want this paid account type to be available to OpenID users. Heck, maybe all paid account types (with a possible warning about not being able to take advantage of some features) should be available to OpenID users--don't see a reason to say no if somebody wants to give us money for a reasonable service we can provide them.
If we did do an account level like this, it would be a good idea to kindly ask Scans Daily if they wouldn't mind posting about it--there's a bunch of casual users there who like the community and might appreciate reading features-lite.
Another thing about this is we can start it in a six months to try and give our income another "spike" point, so it's not so heavily loaded towards May.
Personal desire: one more style slot/layer set for this account type so someone can have one they were using and one they are working on. Because there's lots of things I'll do to further my agenda of people making styles...that might end up percolating to others.
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* Increase tracking subscriptions (100?)
* Increase recent comment view (50?)
* Allow comment editing
* Allow comment expansion
* Ability to receive notifications to individual comment threads
* Ability to receive copies of comments you make in other journals
Pretty simple features that aren't very expensive to offer and probably won't cannibalize the full paid accounts much, since there's no more icons and no search, which are popular but expensive.
Additionally, this paid account type would only be purchaseable by the year (and maybe half year, too), so that processing fees won't eat it up.
I'd want this paid account type to be available to OpenID users. Heck, maybe all paid account types (with a possible warning about not being able to take advantage of some features) should be available to OpenID users--don't see a reason to say no if somebody wants to give us money for a reasonable service we can provide them.
If we did do an account level like this, it would be a good idea to kindly ask Scans Daily if they wouldn't mind posting about it--there's a bunch of casual users there who like the community and might appreciate reading features-lite.
Another thing about this is we can start it in a six months to try and give our income another "spike" point, so it's not so heavily loaded towards May.
Personal desire: one more style slot/layer set for this account type so someone can have one they were using and one they are working on. Because there's lots of things I'll do to further my agenda of people making styles...that might end up percolating to others.