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I like the design and the flow of the thing, really. But I don't see who would be willing to pay for it (although I may be very wrong). Also, some minor critic
by fiatjaf 12y ago
I like the design and the flow of the thing, really. But I don't see who would be willing to pay for it (although I may be very wrong).
Also, some minor criticisms:
- The code at the "Adding to your site" section should be in a monospaced font;
- The pricing is strange. For the price of 10000 posts we could get 20 accounts of 1000 posts. Also, it is strange to pay per month by post. If I reach the 1000 mark I'll be doomed forever?
- Why are you using a totally new mark-up language? You didn't find any good existing alternatives?
- skilesare 12y agoThis is just alpha pricing, but yes, as the amount of content increases the price goes up. We have a few things up our sleeves to drive the price down for the community owner over time, but there are a number of features we need to add first and we're really just trying to find some small to mid sized opportunities to flesh these out. We'd do a massive site but we'd need to charge a good bit to do it at the moment. Ultimately we think that there is a lot of value for a site with millions of comments not having to worry about there community software. Most communities will be at the .99/month tier for a very long time. The mark up language is based on one that has been around for 15+ years at shacknews.com. The goal is to get some personality onto the page without having avatars and signatures disrupt the content flow. Thus you just end up with a few colors.
- fiatjaf 12y agoRight. That's good. I'm convinced. Good luck. I will recommend you whenever I see a potential user (but I don't know if that is going to happen, so don't count on me).