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From: guest
, 75 months, post #1 |
Like, jesus christ, I just wanna read a damn story.
Stop giving me the 'limited servers' excuses when less than 500
people visit your site per day.
I'm not giving you my money, asshats.
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From: guest (Shucks)
, 75 months, post #2 |
Yeah they've gotten crazy aggressive with it lately to the point
where they're going to drive all of their users away, textbook
example of "How to kill a website."
Oh and even if you pay them, it doesn't get rid of ads. Good shit
right there.
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From: rugal
, 75 months, post #3 |
It's definitely annoying but companies and websites of all sorts,
not just writing.com, need to really think of ways to make money
beyond ads. Not just because ads are frequent and annoying (as they
are) but because often times a lot of bad ads get through.
With writing.com specifically, the biggest problem is how badly
overpriced the paid accounts are. $10 for 3 months of Basic
membership? $20 for a year? $50 for 12 months of Upgraded
membership? Nobody's going to want to really pay those prices, to
say nothing of the hundreds of dollars you'd be shelling out for
Premium and Premium Plus. The reality is that there should only be
one level of paid (the Premium level) charged, for example, around
$2.99 to $3.99 per month or a one-time yearly purchase of $30 to
$40 IMO. People, psychologically, react better to smaller numbers
and it'd probably be able to get them to purchase things on a
monthly subscription than $9.99 for 3 months of Basic membership.
But all that said, yeah the punishing of free users by throttling
their ability to view stories is a shame as is the site's
indifference to free users which amounts to "if you're not giving
us money then buzz off". I'm lucky in that I've had the gift points
necessary to get the Basic membership and if need be I could
probably take commissions for GPs if I needed more, much like how
Seuzz has been doing. But of course not everybody is a writer or
wants to write or anything so that option doesn't exist for
everyone.
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From: guest (Not op)
, 75 months, post #4 |
Wouldn't it better if they allow users to support the
users(writers) like patreon and take a cut from there? Lol it seems
like this move will kill their site entirely
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From: guest (Not op)
, 75 months, post #5 |
Probably should start backing up your favorite stories..
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From: guest (IWishIwasALittleGirl)
, 75 months, post #6 |
I hope the community moves on to another site/platform. I'm sure
that are many alternatives out there. I'm not blaming them nor
saying that they don't have the right to do what they choose to do
with their page.... But...
Although, many users are not paying it... Many of those free users
are writing stories for free as well, which is the precise reason
for why people are going to their website.
If you kick out free users, you are also kicking out people who
write for free. Which, I assume, adds value to your whole platform.
So, I'm somewhat skeptical about how good is this business
strategy. With this move they might end up alienating their users.
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From: guest (IWishIwasALittleGirl)
, 75 months, post #7 |
>Probably should start backing up your favorite stories..
Did it
https://pastebin.com/raw/50kfh8u3
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From: guest (guest)
, 75 months, post #8 |
The new FB guys are open to rehosting dead interactives over at
fictionbranches.net. They can't really stop anyone from posting
live stories either but aren't going to actively encourage it for
legal reasons.
But yes, it's clear that StoryMaster wants to kill the only part of
his site that generates traffic, so probably a prelude to
discontinuing offering them altogether. Best to back up your
stories now so you don't lose them. ARchive.org has been blocked by
w.c recently so even the robots aren't capturing the content
anymore.
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From: guest (That_One_Guy)
, 75 months, post #9 |
It just seems like a dick move. I'm sure that the site's not
exactly rife with ways to make money on the part of the
siterunners, but throttling free users like this is really
egregious. If interactive stories are such a sink hole monetarily,
even with the advent of the optional mining stuff (which I'm
guessing not many people do), why not ask for donations or
something periodically to pay for server costs or some shit?
But hey, I'm not exactly an expert on this stuff, so what the hell
do I know.
Also, 100+ dollars for year-long Premium and up? Fuck that, I could
pay for Horizon: Zero Dawn AND Persona 5 for that much. I love ya,
but I'm not made of money, writing.com.
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