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You know, I had some beef with the word 'engaged' a few years ago, especially because I worked for a startup that cared about happiness instead (an active quest
by ljm 5y ago
You know, I had some beef with the word 'engaged' a few years ago, especially because I worked for a startup that cared about happiness instead (an active question rather than passive inference). In that context, we realised it was ridiculous to ask if you were engaged with your job, we wanted to know if you were happy and so we asked the questions instead of trying to secretly gather the data by spying on your activity.
Now I downright hate it. What does 'engaged' even fucking mean? One definition is that you're 'locked', so your attention is locked with them and not someone else. A public toilet cubicle will say 'engaged' when someone is in it.
For an email newsletter, you can see how well it's doing both by the number of subscribers on the list, and also by how many people click through and read the full article on your site. No tracking involved, you just send out an email and look at your logs for an uptick in traffic.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoClick through detection requires inclusion of at least a newsletter id in a query parameter, or something along those lines, for the links provided within the newsletter. Without that, there’s not enough specificity to get anything other than a rough idea of how many people might have clicked the link right after you sent the email.
- ljm 5y agoYou can make a case for it not being tracking if it's not a link masked behind 2 or 3 redirects through ad or link tracking services. You can just have a link that you could log and rewrite in nginx/apache/caddy -> https://mysite.com/mailer/thepost https://mysite.com/mailer/thepost --> https://mysite.com/thepost https://mysite.com/thepost Or just forget about all of that and just _ask_ people and make your decisions on that instead of extrapolating meaning through espionage.
- snowwrestler 5y ago> For an email newsletter, you can see how well it's doing both by the number of subscribers on the list, and also by how many people click through and read the full article on your site. How is it any more happiness-centric to force people to “click through” again and again to read the full article? This is borderline reader-hostile in 2021. The big revolution in email recently has been that the email itself is the product. Put all the content there; deliver 100% of the value with one click (the click that opens the email). This is way better for the reader than having to click 12 separate times just to read a bit.