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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
This suggestion:
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%)
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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.
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i know from other sites i've volunteered on it's very hard to convert "free" users if they expect it all to be free. so i respect the sound basis of the math denise did here, really impressive to have the b plan spelled out like that.
question is then how does the "tipping point" get achieved if striving for site growth? maybe this model intends to suit a niche market of sincere bloggers and avoid the spammy junk that congeals around so many blog and forget sites out there.
i was very excited to get a gift code from a friend and even asked for 2 for my own friends as yet to convert any yet :(
today is a more "mobile" world than ever. i think the posterous example cited above shows another level of awareness of that. even clumsy old kodak added as a paid feature some time ago (after a free trial..) of being able to MMS images to your account.
so there's lots of options, free vs paid are the two endpoints. I appreciate my inquiry being taken immediately and am very grateful for the warm reception and conversation about it.
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