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Re: Friendsweekly – A weekly newsletter to stay in touch with people you care about

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Post by thunderrabbit » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 5:51 AM UTC

I created an account and tested the subscription function.

1) The subscription URL starts with http: instead of https: though your site has SSL set up.

2) The subscription URL can only be used by someone who is logged in. To improve onboarding, I think it should go to the create account screen as opposed to the login screen.

For me personally, I won't use (divulge my friend's email addresses to) this software unless it's open source and I can host it on my own server.

I'd be happy to donate $20 if I end up using it.

Re: Friendsweekly – A weekly newsletter to stay in touch with people you care about

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Post by thunderrabbit » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 7:17 AM UTC

cklaus wrote: post #17

scjody wrote: post #7

This looks great but I don't see anything about pricing / business model, which worries me. Are they going to start charging for subscriptions once they're established? or inserting ads everywhere to make money? or do the intend to pursue freemium features with a solid "free forever" feature set? I only really want to invest the time and energy into getting my friends using this service if it's the latter.

What kind of premium service on top of this would you suggest?

File or photo storage

International pen-pals

Long term journal archive

Re: Friendsweekly – A weekly newsletter to stay in touch with people you care about

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Post by jeegsy » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 8:24 PM UTC

foreigner wrote: post #16

While I like the intent here, I personally would be really annoyed if a friend gave my email address to a site like this. It is NOT OK to give your friend's private email addresses to third parties.

Indeed. Especially when all this can be implemented with regular email directly.