The send-a-link feature

The send-a-link feature

Posted Nov 3, 2005 9:54 UTC (Thu) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760)
In reply to: The send-a-link feature by evgeny
Parent article: The send-a-link feature

Completely agree. The only reason I would use this feature is to send it to people so that they can see it and maybe subscribe to the site. So making this a feature only available to high level subscribers limit the range of potential referers.

Some ideas:

- these linked pages should maybe contain ads (in a way that shows that these adds are not part of the offer if you are a subscriber). After all you are giving content away for free.

- these linked pages should have a link for quick subscription, e.g. maybe with the first week free. I.e. the person sees the links, has a "want to try free for a week?" link, subscribe, and can see the latest week for free. Only works if you never registered before of course.

- the quick subscription should maybe reference the person that passed the link on. Getting a new subscriber to pay for a year could for example extend the original sender's subscription of a week or 2.

Today is all about networking :)

With regard to the link, I have a groups of friends to which I send interesting Linux related links. What happens if I send this list to several people (e.g. through a small (10 persons) mailing list)? Will only the first person that click on the list be allowed to read the content? Is that a non-allowed used of the feature?

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