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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> This would be ideal. All the sign-up and set-up stuff is sorely overdue for
> a rework. I'll be giving this some serious attention in May when I get back
> from San Francisco. As some have noticed, we've begun to migrate member-ish
> things over to members.lugnet.com and this is also the right time to narrow
> the gap between discussion group sign-ups and paid membership sign-ups.
Yep, I've noticed (in fact, I think I was a catalyst, from some recent
mails) ;-) Thanks for this!
> If
> we create a "discussion group account" that can be upgraded to a membership,
> then we can make it be a million times easier to tie together multiple
> e-mail addresses.
I would much appreciate a feature to easily be able to post from multiple
addresses! When I fanned out, and added a brickmedia.com and an ldraw.org
email address for posting, I asked someone else who needed to change
addresses for business reasons. He explained to me that he simply changed
the address in the News Post Setup page and resubmitted it. That confused me
at first, cause I thought it would resend the request, and I'd have to be
re-approved each time. Not so, and after I used it a couple times it works
well -- though I'd much prefer to be able to switch addresses from a
drop-down on the message composition page.
> [Tim and I outlined a migration path a couple years ago which basically puts
> everyone into the category of "member" but with differing types.]
Yup.
> In order for things to become sane, I think we need to phase out the current
> "news posting setup" and at the same time simplify the current membership
> sign-up form -- merging the two. What we call a "member" now would then be a
> special type of member beyond the basic (the basic being a discussion group
> posting account).
>
> I think if we had the concept of a "basic membership" (free, no frills, just
> news posting) and a "full membership" (paid -- same as current memberships)
> and, as Tim suggests above, have one place to configure it all, then this
> would hugely simplify things for everyone.
Sounds like a good plan to me.
> We could then:
>
> - eliminate the current news-posting-setup form
> - make it easy to select from multiple from-adresses on-the-fly at post-time
> - easily link to member pages/profiles from news articles, based on author
> - list news users in the member directory
>
> And I just had a thought: a basic membership wouldn't even need a password
> or a sign-in, since a confirmation e-mail could be sent for any changes --
> even for chaining two or more e-mail addresses together under the same basic
> membership.
Sure, but it might make sense to have one anyways? Then there's no changes
between how you edit your settings when you upgrade to full membership, you
just suddenly see more available options to configure.
An incentive to get basic members to join could be - showing the additional
features in their settings, but having them 'grayed out' or inaccessible
somehow :-)
> > [...] If I understand him correctly,
> > he has paid the $10 twice to try to gain access to LUGNET newsgroups, simply
> > because he didn't understand the browser setup process [...]
>
> Oh that's embarassing. Would you send me his name and I'll check through my
> e-mail archives. On my to-do list for May, BTW, is to automate password
> resets, similar to the way news-posting authentication works.
Sent.
Thanks for this, Todd! It's really great seeing new features being added to
LUGNET again! :-) While you're in Seattle, be sure to give Barile a hard
time for me. His trains aren't wide enough.
-Tim
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