Thanks (Score: 3, Interesting) by dustin@pipedot.org on 2014-05-05 12:14 (#1CM) Thanks for sharing your hard work Bryan. Does pipedot have a strategy for paying for hosting pipedot.org when it gets more popular? Re: Thanks (Score: 3, Informative) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-05-05 17:22 (#1D4) Likely an optional subscription (around a dollar per month or so.)As a reward, subscribers would get certain "heavy" features activated like an IMAP email account and extra storage for the blog. Re: Thanks (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-05 20:36 (#1DB) Just thinking out loud here, brainstorming, really:Paid subscribers get to see more than the first 20 comments? I'm not sure IMAP email (I've already got one) is a huge benefit. Or like the Android app model: paid subscribers see no ad banners. Not sure if it would everywhere, but at b3ta.com paid members get a little icon next to their names, which becomes a bit of a status symbol over time. I think they also offer different icons per year, so if you wanted the polar bear you had to be a member in '06 or something like that. Or the icon reflects number of years as a paid member? Maybe the email notification of responses to your post is a paid feature or something? By the way, $12/yr is a decent price point.
Re: Thanks (Score: 3, Informative) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-05-05 17:22 (#1D4) Likely an optional subscription (around a dollar per month or so.)As a reward, subscribers would get certain "heavy" features activated like an IMAP email account and extra storage for the blog. Re: Thanks (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-05 20:36 (#1DB) Just thinking out loud here, brainstorming, really:Paid subscribers get to see more than the first 20 comments? I'm not sure IMAP email (I've already got one) is a huge benefit. Or like the Android app model: paid subscribers see no ad banners. Not sure if it would everywhere, but at b3ta.com paid members get a little icon next to their names, which becomes a bit of a status symbol over time. I think they also offer different icons per year, so if you wanted the polar bear you had to be a member in '06 or something like that. Or the icon reflects number of years as a paid member? Maybe the email notification of responses to your post is a paid feature or something? By the way, $12/yr is a decent price point.
Re: Thanks (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-05 20:36 (#1DB) Just thinking out loud here, brainstorming, really:Paid subscribers get to see more than the first 20 comments? I'm not sure IMAP email (I've already got one) is a huge benefit. Or like the Android app model: paid subscribers see no ad banners. Not sure if it would everywhere, but at b3ta.com paid members get a little icon next to their names, which becomes a bit of a status symbol over time. I think they also offer different icons per year, so if you wanted the polar bear you had to be a member in '06 or something like that. Or the icon reflects number of years as a paid member? Maybe the email notification of responses to your post is a paid feature or something? By the way, $12/yr is a decent price point.