On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Philip Newton wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:23, Denise Paolucci > <[email protected]> wrote: >> * Permanent and paid account purchasers will be able to create an >> account the minute we open the site up to open beta, without having >> to find someone to give them an invite code. Likewise, as time goes >> on, purchasing a paid account will bypass the invite code requirement >> even after launch. The reason for this is going to be that we're >> going to be using invite codes to control growth, to make sure that >> we don't expand more quickly than our current operating capital can >> cover. (In other words, we can semi-artificially control that >> percentage-of-active-users-who-are-paid figure by how many invite >> codes we release.) > > I think you've addressed this before, but to remind me - how will > invite codes be given out? > > Specifically, will there be 'x' invite codes for every 'y' months of > paid time someone purchased (as on LiveJournal)? Will there be 'x' > invite codes for every user, paid or not (like with the > one-code-after-one-week thing on LiveJournal)? > > Or will it be fairly unpredictable, > everyone-gets-'x'-invite-codes-whenever-we-feel-we-can-give-out-more? > (In which case it's probably not possible to say what 'x' will be, > i.e. whether it'll be more on the order of 1, or 10, or 50.)
* Every account gets X codes to begin with (whatever we set X at) * Every month we determine how many new accounts we can theoretically support and distribute Y invite codes out among the userbase (where Y = how many new accounts we think we can support that month + some wiggle room for the fact that people hold on to codes) * Those codes will be distributed however we choose that month: over the entire userbase, over the paid userbase, over the subset of people who have given out all of their codes, etc. * At any time, anyone who's given out all their invite codes and wants/needs more can write to us and let us know why they want/need them, and if we can support that giveaway, we'll give them more. * We might sell "more invite codes" in big blocks, so people who have convinced their entire friends list/writing group/mailing list/ community/RPG/etc can toss us a couple of bucks to offset the cost of supporting all those new users. Haven't decided on this one yet. --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming soon! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
