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Re: Introducing Increment subscriptions

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Post by detaro »

bradstewart wrote: post #43
reaperducer wrote: post #40

People have been saying "print is dead" for almost a century now, and somehow it hasn't happened. I read an article a couple of months ago which stated that magazine subscriptions are up, and so is printed catalog distribution and sales from those catalogs. Anecdotally, subscribing to Apple News only whetted my wife's appetite for the printed versions of the magazines she sees on her iPhone. She's since subscribed to…

Agreed. Also anecdotally, but I feel the same way with photographs. While digital photos are amazing and I never want to go back, I also really, really enjoy printed albums. Especially for photos of a trip or special event. I find it way easier to capture, remember, and re-tell the story by flipping through a book.

That's something I often tell people a bit unmotivated with their photography: Go and get some of your images printed! It's surprising how much of a difference it can make.

Re: Introducing Increment subscriptions

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Post by sudhirj »

mchusma wrote: post #50

Please introduce core missing features to billing and payments first before print magazine subscriptions. The most obvious one to me: allow people to test their applications in production. Allow them to generate a temporary fake card number, expiration, and cv2 that Stipe can authorize as if it is real. Allow you to generate and expire it from the console and via the API. We had people on stripe's support team for 6…

Aside from Stripe not doing what customers are asking for, there are very good reasons why fake cards in production is a really bad idea:

* the fake cards can leak, and your customers can start using them on your site. I'm not sure how you want to handle this. If this is production your code shouldn't have to be checking for card number patterns, and since you don't get the full card number anyway, I'm not even sure how you would.

* Part of your bookkeeping is that all production transactions are reported as income, both to your CPA and to the IRS / tax authority of your country. You're going to have a major headache trying to explain what's going on to the auditors. These fake transactions will forever be part of your audit trail.

* It'll screw up your reporting - your analytics, revenue, churn rate etc will be artificial, and you'll have a hard time getting people to trust them the moment it's even possible to fake those numbers with test cards.

We have a ticketing system, and yes we do use our own cards to buy low value stuff on production. We then trigger the normal return / complaint flows to get actual refunds back (Stripe doesn't charge you anything for refunds), so it's really no skin off anyone's back, and it does properly test both your purchase and refund flows fully.

Re: Introducing Increment subscriptions

#53

Post by marvindanig »

detaro wrote: post #51
bradstewart wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Also anecdotally, but I feel the same way with photographs. While digital photos are amazing and I never want to go back, I also really, really enjoy printed albums. Especially for photos of a trip or special event. I find it way easier to capture, remember, and re-tell the story by flipping through a book.

That's something I often tell people a bit unmotivated with their photography: Go and get some of your images printed! It's surprising how much of a difference it can make.

But isn't that sending them towards pulping and effectively killing the very nature that inspires their photography in the first place?

Re: Introducing Increment subscriptions

#54

Post by frandroid »

frandroid wrote: post #42
spamizbad wrote: post #3

I think more companies should create zines. But maybe not be so corporate about it.. like this... be more authentic. Very powerful culture building tool tho IMO.

*magazines

I don't know what the downvoters or the Parent think they're saying, but companies cannot produce "zines", by definition. Zines are produced by individuals. A company "zine" is a magazine, no matter how "cool" and lofi the layout.

Re: Introducing Increment subscriptions

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Post by cptskippy »

marvindanig wrote: post #39
cptskippy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> tilling arable lands and pulping more trees So you're arguing against using crop land to produce a crop?

Moving the goalpost much? Clever but not constructive at all. Producing crop for food supplies is not the same thing as producing crop for transmission of blob of text. The former is critical for human survival whereas the latter is totally undesirable. Especially now that we have a well permeated web to distribute books on, we don't need anyone to sow or reap the trees anymore. Period.

How is that moving the goal post?

> Producing crop for food supplies is not the same thing as producing crop for transmission of blob of text. The former is critical for human survival whereas the latter is totally undesirable.

Do we need to produce more food? No, we have an over supply and producing more would only drive down prices and harm the producers who are already struggling and require subsidies. Proposing we produce more food crop farms is asinine at best.

> Especially now that we have a well permeated web to distribute books on, we don't need anyone to sow or reap the trees anymore. Period.

Suggesting that web delivery is a suitable or even complete replacement for books or printed literature is equally asinine. Conveyance of discrete data is only one small aspect of printed media. The experience of reading a book, magazine, pamphlet, or paper is entirely different from reading on an electronic device. Dissemination is also another critical difference, sure everyone can download your PDF but that doesn't mean they will. A magazine sitting on a coffee table in a waiting room is an entirely different experience from anything electronic and it is complete incomparable.

Re: Introducing Increment subscriptions

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Post by bradstewart »

marvindanig wrote: post #53
detaro wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's something I often tell people a bit unmotivated with their photography: Go and get some of your images printed! It's surprising how much of a difference it can make.

But isn't that sending them towards pulping and effectively killing the very nature that inspires their photography in the first place?

Paper is not effectively killing nature. Especially in the US, which is home to one of the largest paper-producing regions in the world.

Nearly (if not actually) all of the pulp required for paper comes from managed forests grown and harvested specifically to produce wood products over time. These tree farms are stable, not shrinking.

Re: Introducing Increment subscriptions

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Post by marvindanig »

bradstewart wrote: post #56
marvindanig wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But isn't that sending them towards pulping and effectively killing the very nature that inspires their photography in the first place?

Paper is not effectively killing nature. Especially in the US, which is home to one of the largest paper-producing regions in the world. Nearly (if not actually) all of the pulp required for paper comes from managed forests grown and harvested specifically to produce wood products over time. These tree farms are stable, not shrinking.

well, that’s not true.

“managed forests” produce high amounts of waste and take away arable land and natural habitat quite aggressively [1]. what you have said here is a common propaganda perpetrated by industry advocates on the web and is often passed on as gyan without any scientific basis or authentic study or source to back it up.

hell, even critical thinking is missing when people write comments like this!

kind of like lobsters were cheap prison food in 1800s story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/emcx69/the_history...

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_pape...

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