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Great idea! But, <rant> I'm not going to give you MY content, for free, if you don't AT LEAST allow for my content, and the content of my peers on your website

Great idea! But, <rant> I'm not going to give you MY content, for free, if you don't AT LEAST allow for my content, and the content of my peers on your website, to be in a format which is easy to export and edit. You know why? Because in a couple of years you will raise more money, and your VC will tell you that a subscription business is a great idea, you will follow him, and I will need to decide between paying you $X per month, or stop using the service. I don't want to get there again. </rant> Nothing against you personally. But perhaps there's a way to promise potential customers that you're not going to screw them eventually. Edit: to be clear, a "format which is easy to export and edit" means two things: something like markdown, and a single button which allows me to download everything I ever wrote on your website.

vladsanchez 6y ago
I concur and support you! It will play out like that.
steve_adams_86 6y ago
Likewise, I don’t see this working for me in a few years time. Are there compelling reasons to use this today if I hope to use it in 5 years? This is why I generally only use things online that I can pay for, these days. It tends to ensure some degree of longer term service.
stopachka 6y ago
Fair concern Simone, For what it's worth -- we definitely plan on making it easy to export and delete your data. While this feature is on the way, you can always ping us, and we can send you a data structure of your data, or delete it.
- crossroadsguy 6y ago
  Mostly what the parent commenter has said. In fact anywhere where I'd put my effort and add content for free I'd only start using that service as a creator/contributor when these are parts of the feature set and T&C: - you'd let users easily export and delete their data/account - that you'd give users time to export their data in an easily readable format and also delete their account (with assurance that data will actually be deleted), if you are planning something that might change these possibilities -- a sale, a VC thingie - you'd give this option in the UI/app itself and not via an email or support request Till then, I'd either not use the service or just use as a parasite. Bitter experiences and all that. -- I like the font. However, the UI feels more like a blog, and it's not intuitive to me what I want to do with it. UX is clunky on Firefox with default uBlockOrigin turned on. And yes, no way to delete the account. Well..
- HenryBemis 6y ago
  I did mention GDPR in another comment. Data extraction/portability is a 'thing' in GDPR. There is a website that has the same function, but for movies. Apologies I cannot remember the name. Similar funciton. You record the titles of the movies you watched. Thinking about this again (and this is why in my other comment I ask "who pays for this/how is that paid for"; this would be goldmine for Amazon, B&N, and other players. We also know that "FBI checking out Americans' reading habits / Bookstores, libraries can't do much to fend off search warrants" (https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FBI-checking-out-Americans-reading-habits-2826830.php https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FBI-checking-out-Ame...) No more needs for warrants!! :)

vladsanchez 6y ago

I concur and support you! It will play out like that.

steve_adams_86 6y ago

Likewise, I don’t see this working for me in a few years time. Are there compelling reasons to use this today if I hope to use it in 5 years? This is why I generally only use things online that I can pay for, these days. It tends to ensure some degree of longer term service.

stopachka 6y ago

Fair concern Simone, For what it's worth -- we definitely plan on making it easy to export and delete your data. While this feature is on the way, you can always ping us, and we can send you a data structure of your data, or delete it.

crossroadsguy 6y ago
Mostly what the parent commenter has said. In fact anywhere where I'd put my effort and add content for free I'd only start using that service as a creator/contributor when these are parts of the feature set and T&C: - you'd let users easily export and delete their data/account - that you'd give users time to export their data in an easily readable format and also delete their account (with assurance that data will actually be deleted), if you are planning something that might change these possibilities -- a sale, a VC thingie - you'd give this option in the UI/app itself and not via an email or support request Till then, I'd either not use the service or just use as a parasite. Bitter experiences and all that. -- I like the font. However, the UI feels more like a blog, and it's not intuitive to me what I want to do with it. UX is clunky on Firefox with default uBlockOrigin turned on. And yes, no way to delete the account. Well..
HenryBemis 6y ago
I did mention GDPR in another comment. Data extraction/portability is a 'thing' in GDPR. There is a website that has the same function, but for movies. Apologies I cannot remember the name. Similar funciton. You record the titles of the movies you watched. Thinking about this again (and this is why in my other comment I ask "who pays for this/how is that paid for"; this would be goldmine for Amazon, B&N, and other players. We also know that "FBI checking out Americans' reading habits / Bookstores, libraries can't do much to fend off search warrants" (https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FBI-checking-out-Americans-reading-habits-2826830.php https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FBI-checking-out-Ame...) No more needs for warrants!! :)