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This was my first time visiting their website. I'll not sign up for a service when they don't show me what they have. I like StackOverflow because they show th
by msoad 14y ago
This was my first time visiting their website. I'll not sign up for a service when they don't show me what they have.
I like StackOverflow because they show their content, they allow you to use their service without signing up. You will signup when you got familiar with the service enough.
My rule of thumb is, show user the content, the value and then expect them to sign up. A video or some nice buzz words are not enough.
- rattray 14y agoI understand your frustration but I'm not sure it's relevant here. Formspring's issue certainly wasn't lack of signups; they claimed over 30 million.
- eurleif 14y agoFormspring does let you see someone's questions and answers without having an account if you go to the profile. I guess they could highlight some accounts on the homepage, but people mostly used it to ask their friends questions, so that wouldn't really reflect the normal use of the service.
- iampims 14y agoYeah, you can check out everybody’s profile without signing up: http://www.formspring.me/pims http://www.formspring.me/pims and you can see every public thread. And until very recently, you could even ask questions without being a registered user to the users who had this feature enabled. The only “private” features you don’t see when not registered are your stream (similar to your Twitter timeline) and your inbox (similar to your FB messages).
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