Weekly edition	Kernel	Security	Distributions	Contact Us	Search
Archives	Calendar	Subscribe	Write for LWN	LWN.net FAQ	Sponsors

Some LWN notes: to accelerate subscription growth

Posted Jun 25, 2006 17:04 UTC (Sun) by maya (guest, #3975)
Parent article: Some LWN notes

> Subscriptions to LWN continue to grow, but that growth continues to be slow. Very slow.

How about send-an-account (free subscription for, say, 3 months) as well as send-a-link? It should be a handier way for subscribers to recommend lwn to their friends, and also make it easier for the newcomers (those who were invited) to see the value of subscribing to lwn. I thought this would help grow subscriptions to lwn more, just like social network services' invitations.

maya

(Log in to post comments)

Some LWN notes: to accelerate subscription growth

Posted Jun 27, 2006 15:31 UTC (Tue) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

I'd really like to be able to send a link to a subscription article.

Rich.

Some LWN notes: to accelerate subscription growth

Posted Jun 27, 2006 16:23 UTC (Tue) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link]

On the left, underneath the lwn.net logo and advert on any subscriber-only article:

Logged in as rwmj
My Account
Log out
Subscriber links
Send a link

I'd make that last line <blink>, but that might make me unpopular (and isn't allowed anyway).

Hope this helps.

Some LWN notes: to accelerate subscription growth

Posted Jun 28, 2006 16:19 UTC (Wed) by maya (guest, #3975) [Link]

In case it's troublesome to implement it, I think simply making it free for the first (say) 3 months to anyone (not having any kind of invitation by those who are already subscribing to lwn) seems to work, too. This seems to work well if this free trial could be applied to corporate/group subscription.

maya