Insanely good caramel corn (http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Oven-Caramel-Corn/) more for the method than the actual recipe, every kernal is separate and lightly coated in caramel, no globs
*sigh* Don't these people realize that in the Internet age, someone setting up a competitor to a site is as simple as getting a domain name and website up? And it's not just sites like this one, it's also the newspapers, who want to collude to bring up paywalls around their content.
To them I can just say "good luck with that", because honestly, it's all about content in the Internet age, and not so much about profit.
This is a little bit misleading: it seems that Instructables is moving to a two-tiered account system with a "Pro" account as well as free accounts. From the linked-to article:
"If a pro account isn't for you, we'll always offer a free account. The free account maintains the site's core functionality..."
As someone who supports a paid-subscription website, I can sympathize with what they're going through. It's not that easy to challenge the expectation of many users that teams of developers will work to provide them with useful software for no remuneration whatsoever. The problem that Instructables has created for themselves is in initially only having free memberships -- trying to go from that to having paid memberships in any form is bound to whip up righteous indignation of a form that makes up in vehemence for what it lacks in rational justification. Then there's the issue of content. When users provide the content of a site, and when they don't have a firm grasp of the difference between content and the tools to access/manage it, they're going to lose their minds at the thought of being asked to pay for it. Not really rational, again, but when did that ever stop people from getting up a head of steam?
oh, i understand why they're doing it, but i don't think it's going to work well for them. at least the way they seem to be implementing it.
in particular, it seems that viewing secondary images is a pro feature. (based on this picture (http://www.flickr.com/photos/benchun/3622775916/)) so, for user-generated content, i suspect the user base will start migrating somewhere else.
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Date: 2009-06-19 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-19 01:46 pm (UTC)pointer?
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Date: 2009-06-19 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-19 12:42 pm (UTC)To them I can just say "good luck with that", because honestly, it's all about content in the Internet age, and not so much about profit.
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Date: 2009-06-19 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-19 01:12 pm (UTC)This is a little bit misleading: it seems that Instructables is moving to a two-tiered account system with a "Pro" account as well as free accounts. From the linked-to article:
"If a pro account isn't for you, we'll always offer a free account. The free account maintains the site's core functionality..."
As someone who supports a paid-subscription website, I can sympathize with what they're going through. It's not that easy to challenge the expectation of many users that teams of developers will work to provide them with useful software for no remuneration whatsoever. The problem that Instructables has created for themselves is in initially only having free memberships -- trying to go from that to having paid memberships in any form is bound to whip up righteous indignation of a form that makes up in vehemence for what it lacks in rational justification. Then there's the issue of content. When users provide the content of a site, and when they don't have a firm grasp of the difference between content and the tools to access/manage it, they're going to lose their minds at the thought of being asked to pay for it. Not really rational, again, but when did that ever stop people from getting up a head of steam?
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Date: 2009-06-19 01:51 pm (UTC)in particular, it seems that viewing secondary images is a pro feature. (based on this picture (http://www.flickr.com/photos/benchun/3622775916/)) so, for user-generated content, i suspect the user base will start migrating somewhere else.