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DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware
wreckedcarzz:
Why not incorporate the license key process into the installer? NSIS is pretty flexible about that. A small wizard-like system, where if you have a DC account, just login and it auto-registers you, and if you don't, you can get an anonymous key (and have the default browser open the DC page or something), or sign up and get a key (w/o internet popup).
Seems fair?
mouser:
One thing i'm proud of here at DC is that we like to experiment with ideas..
Perhaps we could put together a list of a few different ideas to try and try them each out for a month or two and see how things go.
wreckedcarzz:
Maybe something to put in the newsletter? More ideas is always better...
mitzevo:
Iirc we've seen one or two posts from people who couldn't remember signing up for the newsletter who thought they were being spammed,
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Idiots. They probably couldn't remember parking their car in some one elses garage either.
mouser:
they aren't idiots -- it's an imperfect system on our part which encourages people to sign up to get a license key -- they may not be paying much attention to anything when they come here in a rush to get a license key.
then if they get a newsletter from us and right away and don't even bother to read it -- and just assume that we are just one more of those evil spammers who are going to be sending them a million emails about all sorts of junk and scams.
the question is, can we make a better system that still doesn't leave us totally devoid of donations..
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