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Gittip is a site for micro-subscriptions to fund open source developers. I got a lot of feedback this week on HN and GitHub that the minimum subscription should
by whit537 14y ago
Gittip is a site for micro-subscriptions to fund open source developers. I got a lot of feedback this week on HN and GitHub that the minimum subscription should be raised from $0.25 to $1.00:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180 https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180
I rolled that out today, so if you wanted it, go use it. :^)
https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html
- thaumaturgy 14y agome.html is giving me a 302 redirect to the home page. Am I missing something?
- whit537 14y agoIf you're already authenticated then it redirects to your profile page.
- whit537 14y agoOkay, should give you a message now if you're anon. https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html https://www.gittip.com/about/me.html
- thaumaturgy 14y agoNice, that's a little less confusing. :-) Just as a heads-up: Google "gittip minimum raised from" or search Twitter for the same (http://twitter.com/#!/search/gittip%20minimum%20raised%20from http://twitter.com/#!/search/gittip%20minimum%20raised%20fro...) ... there's a collective audience of tens of thousands of people, any of whom could be seeing Gittip for the first time from this submission. Linking to a blog post, even a very brief one, might be better for picking up new interest in the future. I feel like I'm being a pain in the ass between this and yesterday's grousing over needing a Github account. Sorry about that.
- whit537 14y agoIf you're a pain in the ass then I'm sittin' on sunshine. Definitely could do a better job of converting traffic. Don't feel like I have that nailed yet. :-/
- john-n 14y agoJust my 2 cents, but I did not/do not know what gittip is. The above link invites me to sign in using github, I'm extremely cautious of logging in using github anywhere as my personal account is also my work account. Any page where I can land and be asked to log in should do a better job of saying what you do, especially where trust is involved.
- whit537 14y agoThanks for feeding back. I'll try to do better next time.
- Cogito 14y agoJust to add my 2c, a blog post on this and the reasons behind it are a really good idea. As soon as I saw 'log in' I immediately returned to HN comments to find out what was going on. Many people won't have that luxury, or patience.
- whit537 14y agoThanks for pushing through. I'll be more careful next time.