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bodhisattva ([personal profile] bodhi) wrote in [site community profile] dw_suggestions2009-08-21 05:28 pm

Email posting should be free

Title:
Email posting should be free

Area:
posting, email, pin, blogging, free, paid

Summary:
My apologies if this hasn't already been requested 6,392 times.. but truly the #1 obstacle for me getting attached to using this site is inability to use email posting as a free feature.

Description:
It may make sense from a let's hold off a feature to get people to buy phase, but considering that every single blogging site known to chimp and mankind provide this as a feature, and in today's fast mobile world, most of us wish to post on the go and perhaps edit "on desku" at leisure.

without this feature as free, i suspect many prospective trial users will just not get as hooked into DW.

OT: frankly I'm quite perplexed and disappointed here. I don't really get what DW is for - is this like GM's Saturn? Building a Better LiveJournal? Because it's not really doing that for me.

Sorry, and thanks for listening.

/regrets

Poll #1068 Email posting should be free
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36


This suggestion:

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Should be implemented as-is.
4 (11.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
12 (33.3%)

(I have no opinion)
19 (52.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

cesy: "Cesy" - An old-fashioned quill and ink (Default)

[personal profile] cesy 2009-08-22 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
That could work, though I wonder if it's more effort than it's worth to code it.
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[personal profile] kaigou 2009-08-22 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
I'd think the question is really where the trade-off point is: how many more users can you gain if you're willing to accept the loss-leader of coding those extra amounts? ...because, yes, it's true that "nonpaid users" are a drain on the system in terms of computational and financial issues, but non-paying characters are always going to be the largest group of any online group -- and thus it's likely that they're also contributing the bulk of the content. And that content, in turn, is what prompts other users to want to pay for the nifty aspects of the service as part of getting all that content regularly.

So... I'd say the extra bit of coding is worth the trade-off, if it can be shown that it's a service that would be a substantial boost to users, pay and nonpay alike. That, though, I'm not so certain of. No way to get the stats to gauge it, I mean, which leaves me as undetermined.
cesy: "Cesy" - An old-fashioned quill and ink (Default)

[personal profile] cesy 2009-08-22 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
No problem :) At least you can have email posting for a while, and maybe someone else will help when it runs out, particular now there's "sponsor a random active user".