07-03-2003, 05:45 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Email Blasts and New Subscriber Button
Two quick updates for you on the subscriber services. This is something new for all of us, so there are some bumps. :-)
First off, if you don't want to receive notifications of new posts via email, here's how you turn them off:
1) Go to the site home page
2) Make sure you are logged in, then click on the CUSTOMIZE link on the upper right-hand column
3) On the Customize menu on the left side, click on Master Email Control
4) Under the EMAIL BLAST section, turn it off. You can do the same for the Weekly Digest if you don't want to receive it
That's it! We're going to take this setting and put it on the "thank you" page so that right after you subscribe you'll be shown that option so there are no surprises. It will take us a while to implement that code because we have so many other things to tweak.
Second, we've replaced the subscriber badge with something that I think everyone will like better: it now simply says "I'm a Subscriber!". This is a statement of fact, and has nothing to do with supporting the site, because if you're coming here, reading, posting, helping others, buying through affiliate links, clicking on the banners, or contributing in any other way, you're supporting the site and I thank you for it. If you are able to support this site financially by purchasing a subscription, wonderful! If not, that's ok - no one will look down on you or think anything less if you don't have that badge. We're soon going to add the ability for people to turn off their own badge if they wish, so it will quickly become impossible for anyone to see who's a subscriber and who's not. I don't want people to get hung up on this issue - let's focus on the good stuff, shall we? 
I should add that we've made it Flash-based, which has a rollover effect, which means it's now impossible to fake (yes someone actually faked it yesterday). I'm not sure what the motivation is behind someone trying to fake being a subscriber, but I'd like to ask these individuals to stop.
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07-03-2003, 05:56 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 216
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
We're soon going to add the ability for people to turn off the badge if they wish, so it will quickly become impossible for anyone to see who's a subscriber and who's not.
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Do you turn off your own badge or turn off seeing other people's badges?
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07-03-2003, 06:00 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,264
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I love the effect when you hover over the badge with your cursor!
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07-03-2003, 06:03 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by pschultz
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
We're soon going to add the ability for people to turn off the badge if they wish, so it will quickly become impossible for anyone to see who's a subscriber and who's not.
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Do you turn off your own badge or turn off seeing other people's badges? |
You'll have the ability to turn off your own badge, this hiding your subscriber status if you so choose.
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07-03-2003, 06:03 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 450
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Re: Email Blasts and New Subscriber Button
Uhh.... I don't like the roll-over effect on the button. And I don't like the blue color... change these too please! :mrgreen: I'm just kidding! Keep up the good work Jason!
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07-03-2003, 06:06 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 216
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by pschultz
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
We're soon going to add the ability for people to turn off the badge if they wish, so it will quickly become impossible for anyone to see who's a subscriber and who's not.
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Do you turn off your own badge or turn off seeing other people's badges? |
You'll have the ability to turn off your own badge, this hiding your subscriber status if you so choose. |
I think the badges are great, and I can show off that I am a subscriber, but I think that it would be nice if non-subscribers could turn off seeing other people's badges. Mostly, they are the ones complaining about the badges anyways. Just my $0.02.
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07-03-2003, 06:08 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 312
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3) On the Customize menu on the left side, click on Master Email Control
4) Under the EMAIL BLAST section, turn it off. You can do the same for the Weekly Digest if you don't want to receive it3)
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But I don't have an EMAIL BLAST section there; I can just configure my mobile (Pocket PC) options with Home Page, Forums, Articles, Archives and Links; no Desktop options to be customized...
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07-03-2003, 06:16 PM
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Executive Editor
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Originally Posted by pschultz
I think the badges are great, and I can show off that I am a subscriber, but I think that it would be nice if non-subscribers could turn off seeing other people's badges. Mostly, they are the ones complaining about the badges anyways. Just my $0.02.
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Ah, but that's giving non-subscribers customization capabilities for nothing! ;-) The whole vision of subscribers services is to give subscribers the richest customization services possible, and everyone else the "stock" experience. I've been pretty stubborn about this since the start with people asking for more posts on the mobile site, more posts on the front page, more pages linked from the front page, etc. No matter what settings I change, it will tick someone off, so the solution is to keep everything that same, except for subscribers. We worked hard on our customization system to make sure it was worth a couple of bucks a month!
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07-03-2003, 06:16 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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There are two large buttons at the top to switch from PPC to Desktop customization options.
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07-03-2003, 06:20 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 312
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Originally Posted by Goldkey
There are two large buttons at the top to switch from PPC to Desktop customization options.
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Good point - but so far (thanks God) I'm not blind... 8)
But clicking the PC icon gives me just an empty page since I've subscribed for the mobile version "only"...
So I have no access to the E-Mail configuration but getting update E-Mails which isn't that bad if I wouldn't get it twice because I'm also using NewsGator with Outlook... ;-)
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