Email posting should be free

[bodhi]

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

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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%)

Comments

[cesy]

Buying/renting additional userpics is not going to happen, because userpics are the single most expensive paid account feature - the cost of extra userpics would have to be the same as the cost of a paid account.

I think (though I may be remembering wrongly here) things like buying 5 email post credits aren't going to be done because it's too fiddly to keep track of which features you're paid for - free/paid/premium is much more straightforward, and allows you to keep track easily of what features you have. However, some of the discussion on dw_biz may be of interest, as they tend to go into these kind of questions in more detail.

[bodhi]

k. it's all good. i hope my inquiry is recognized as interest in helping your site succeed. i do understand the complexity-cost metrics and again applaud the solid writeup quoted here.

i for one would be happy with fewer avatars in exchange for email posting. but again the point is to get people to sign on, not get cushy in free mode

^_^