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

[kyrielle]

Dreamwidth has a number of features that LJ does not, and is expanding and enhancing at a pace that (IMO) LJ does not match. They are both adding enhancements, but IMO Dreamwidth is showing more growth and better enhancements.

This is from the pre-beta wiki, but it mentions some things that are different: http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Dreamwidth_changes_from_LJ

I think the plan to ultimately integrate data from your other sites (if you want it to) is also a huge part of this. (And, since Dreamwidth supports cross-posting now, I can maintain a presence on both sites pretty easily.)

As are cultural differences, to some degree, in how the sites are run. That will only matter to a subset of users, but it does matter to them.

And I'm glad you don't find the ads invasive; I have another account on LJ besides the obvious one, and it's not paid/perm, and I find the ads horribly obtrusive. (Especially the time I hit one that violated the rules and talked at me. Ugh.) So do some others, I think.

[bodhi]

another great resource/read. thanks will study!

is there an API for posting? that should be easy enough too? i have friends i might be able to convince to muck up some sort of mobile client(s) [and hopefully prettier than LJ2Me]

[cesy]

http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Compatible_clients lists the current clients that have been tested - if you can add anything to it, please do.

[bodhi]

oh wow, all my backbiting, lj2me worked for me lol

[kyrielle]

There is! I'm not technical so I can't give details, but LiveJournal has an API for posting and Dreamwidth inherited it. I don't know if they've modified it (in support of the new features), but I know people have used LiveJournal clients to post here just by repointing them. (Given the differences in access/filter lists, I have no idea whether that's still possible or if you'd need a Dreamwidth client.)

Searching the FAQ I find a brief mention of clients you can use - which links to a wiki page that lists clients and also gives (some) details of where the API url's are.

You may (or may not) also be interested in the guide The ethos and ideas behind Dreamwidth Studios: What makes us special? Some of it is, as I noted, a culture thing for some people.

[bodhi]

yeppers.. ok getting a clew here.. thanks so much you guys!!

so the api is a good thing to have and as i said, sorry for the ubernubie slant to this, you've all been so much more than kind.

as per cesy, the lj2me client works here too. huzzah.

[yvi]

and I find the ads horribly obtrusive.

So much yes. I find them really, really not subtle.