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Re: Feedly Pro

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Post by stephen_mcd » Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 8:36 AM UTC

middus wrote: post #4

If anyone working for feedly reads this: SSL/https should not be a premium feature. Please make it available to everyone. Update: they tweeted "HTTPS is currently a pro only feature. Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it." (see https://twitter.com/feedly/status/364292745487065088 )

Have a look at kouio, it's only accessible over HTTPS: https://kouio.com

Re: Feedly Pro

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Post by pkhamre » Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 8:41 AM UTC

I would rather pay a monthly/yearly fee.

Re: Feedly Pro

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Post by kondro » Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 8:41 AM UTC

samweinberg wrote: post #6

middus wrote: post #4

If anyone working for feedly reads this: SSL/https should not be a premium feature. Please make it available to everyone. Update: they tweeted "HTTPS is currently a pro only feature. Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it." (see https://twitter.com/feedly/status/364292745487065088 )

Seriously. You shouldn't have to pay to expect a reasonable amount of security as a user.

So, as a user, you have a right to a free product on your terms and conditions?

Re: Feedly Pro

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Post by kondro » Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 8:42 AM UTC

pkhamre wrote: post #12

I would rather pay a monthly/yearly fee.

The price is $5/month and $45/year when these 5,000 lifetime accounts run out.

Re: Feedly Pro

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Post by kondro » Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 8:42 AM UTC

thisishugo wrote: post #5

Great that they've settled on a business model, but I feel like if you are going to have a free tier that HTTPS should be part of it.

Authentication is already SSL.

Re: Feedly Pro

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Post by kondro » Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 8:43 AM UTC

petsos wrote: post #7

Not again with the lifetime accounts...

Only 5,000 lifetime accounts. Tiny in comparison to the 12 million+ users they have.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/06/19/feedly-launches-sta...

Re: Feedly Pro

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Post by kondro » Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 8:44 AM UTC

baq wrote: post #10

stephanos2k wrote: post #2

I was wondering how long it would take for them to find a business model.

selling https access doesn't sound like a good one for me, this should be a basic feature with NSA and who knows who else listening in on everything.

If you want some privacy, you have to pay for it. Is that really that unreasonable?

Re: Feedly Pro

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Post by stephen_mcd » Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 8:45 AM UTC

stephen_mcd wrote: post #11

middus wrote: post #4

If anyone working for feedly reads this: SSL/https should not be a premium feature. Please make it available to everyone. Update: they tweeted "HTTPS is currently a pro only feature. Will extend it to everyone when we have a way to fund it." (see https://twitter.com/feedly/status/364292745487065088 )

Have a look at kouio, it's only accessible over HTTPS: https://kouio.com

Also worth mentioning, with kouio, paying customers will never be competing with freeloaders for resources :-)

Re: Feedly Pro

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Post by exizt88 » Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 8:49 AM UTC

You know something's wrong with your RSS reader when it has a support queue, and people are willing to pay for bumping to the front of it.

Re: Feedly Pro

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Post by icebraining » Mon, Aug 05, 2013, 9:06 AM UTC

kondro wrote: post #13

samweinberg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously. You shouldn't have to pay to expect a reasonable amount of security as a user.

So, as a user, you have a right to a free product on your terms and conditions?

That's an overreaching interpretation of parent's post. Besides, the "rights" issue is a red herring. Making an analogy - and yes, I know it's not accurate, it's an analogy -, people don't have a the "right" to a free car, but if I am going to offer free cars, surely we can agree they should have breaks.

The idea that because it's free it's above all criticism is simply unreasonable.

Personally, I don't think requiring payment for SSL is wrong, though.