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(Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Friday June 06 2014, @11:08PM
I'm seeing various questions and position being raised on the area of "How" (implementation and post-implementation), I'd like to hear more details in the area of "Why" - what is the reason behind the action of getting the number of non-logged-in visitors?
What is hindered or impacted by the lack of those numbers?
(to other-than-the-tech/editorial-team SN mates: please hold your horses and refrain from posting your assumptions. This is an open question, take it at the face value. I have no hidden agenda nor do I want to imply anything).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Informative) by NCommander on Saturday June 07 2014, @12:43AM
We're trying to work out specifically how large our community is in terms of individual users, locations, and so forth. Furthermore, we're working out rough numbers on what we may reasonably expect to see via subscriber-ship (a post on this is forthcoming) and if need be, what sort of revenue adversing may bring in if we're forced to run it. Part of our incorporation process is having a business plan put together, and knowing what we can expect to see cash in vs. cash out.
On a more border category, we're also just plain old curious, and I'd like to know how much of our userbase uses Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux, where are folks, etc.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 07 2014, @01:05AM
In the forthcoming post, may I kindly ask you to state your estimations (both the most conservative and the most exuberant) in regards with operational/enhancement costs?
If it can be reasonably helped, I'd be happy to avoid a dependency on the advertising generated income.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Saturday June 07 2014, @01:59AM
We've got some very rough estimates based on what we're planning and what we can expect, and the numbers we came up fell short. What I plan to do is implement a box that people can pledge for the subscriber level they want, and then we can use those for more reasonable numbers (maybe something I can implement over the weekend) instead our guessaments. This should get a more reasonable idea of what we can expect, but we need to evaluate all options.
If we're going to run ads here, there will be plenty of forewarning and discussion.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Saturday June 07 2014, @02:25AM
Piwik is pretty much the only analytics thing I don't dislike because of the self-hosted nature and decent features. So as far as that goes I don't care. I wish more people would do this in fact because it'd be better for both parties. Them because my script blocker doesn't catch it and me because I can contribute data without it being given to google or whoever else so long as the server's party doesn't go off and sell it somehow.
Advertising is what concerns me though, remember: Even though I'll give serious thought to paying into subscription I do run an ad and script blocker and if your ads are non-text third party content I'll likely not see them. I might not see them anyway if the script is ran from something I've blacklisted. So try to either sell ad space directly or use a third party that isn't google. Also note that when I say "I" I really mean "users like me" and given that you have not only people prone to being stubborn about scripts but also people who migrated from slashdot because of similar bullshit I don't envy your position NC, and will try my best to contribute financially despite not being a man of much means. Also be sure to emphasize the benefits of paid subscription in an obvious manner in the same way other non-profits do for donations. Slashdot and other sites that do this kind of thing made a huge mistake not doing that and as much as it might irritate people to say this, I think you should take cues from the reddit gold model. They're doing it pretty right.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 07 2014, @04:01AM
I would love (can't wait?) to see some details of your forecasting.
Cool. If you also give course to my suggestion on disclosing some estimates on the operational+future enhancement cost, you may find in a situation very similar with the initiation of a crowd-funding action, except you use the very site you want to maintain for raising the funds (no commissions to pay to Kickstarter/IndieGoGo, only some commissions to pay for the "online merchant account" services - you won't avoid them anyway).
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Endnotes
(for example - and with a face value limited to an example, don't take it as a suggestion for a payment processor - PayPal already offers [paypal.com] crowdfunding. Other may as well)
(yes, I know, you need to be incorporated to start receiving funds and you need some numbers to proceed with the incorporation. But, I think a scenario like the below would be acceptable/feasible:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday June 07 2014, @03:22AM
On any given day, you would likely see me showing up from a hand full of different IPs, using Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, and three different versions of Android.
How would that help you in a business plan?
I can see counting users, and attempting to unduplicate the anonymous cowards, and maybe determine which continent, but beyond that, it gets pretty sketchy.
If I come up on my android device on LTE, for example, my IP may vary from Florida to Phoenix, or Seattle, depending on where my carrier happens to have the most free bandwidth to dump that page request onto the net.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.