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Should we make this a campaign about going from 7% to 50% or something like that? |
What if we totally automate this?
Once we figure out where the "normal" level is, we'll drop the goal when we're within sight of it. Don't need to automate for this PR, though. |
50¢ and $1 might be a better fit than $5 and 50¢ |
I like it, but I think we need to explain the situation better. We've seen people who thought Gittip was a "normal" crowdfunding site funded by fees (#2515), it should be made clear that tips from users are our only source of income. I think we also need a link to a page that explains what the tips to the Gittip team fund: hosting and other related costs, improvements to the site (those we've recently made, and those we're working on now). Maintaining a list of improvements manually might be a burden, so we could try querying the GitHub API for open and recently closed PRs on the www.gittip.com repo. Finally, I'm not sure that the percentage of active users tipping Gittip is a good metric. I suggest using the existing "goal" feature, we can set one for the Gittip team and use that as the campaign target. |
Why not? Seems like a great metric to me. It's about social validation. "Be like everyone else!" and/or "Be better than everyone else!" No? Why is it not good? |
What makes you say that, @seanlinsley? To me 50¢ and $1 are not very far apart. |
How about dampening it until hover to lessen potential annoyance? Adds explanatory text per @Changaco's suggestion. We can link to the explanatory page both from this explanatory text and from our /Gittip/ profile. |
@dsernst @clone1018 @ericmeltzer @tshepang et al. I'd love your feedback on this. |
@chrisdev @colindean ^^^ |
Love it! On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Chad Whitacre [email protected]
Eric Meltzer |
Me gusta. I think the word "direct" should be in the explanation.
Also, "Will you help us reach 20%?" Proper grammar feels better. |
Also, "Will you help us reach 20%?" Proper grammar feels better. Had that (scroll back). Felt like too much text, I wanted to whittle it down. I had "Help us reach 20%!" but that felt too pushy. |
Hmm. OK. |
@colindean What do you like about the word "direct"? |
@colindean Does "direct" get at the same idea as "solely" in earlier screenshots? I.e., this is it! We're not funded if you don't fund us! |
I like direct or solely On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Chad Whitacre [email protected]
Eric Meltzer |
What is "this"? I've never been a fan of "make this possible".
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Prefer learn more On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Colin Dean [email protected]
Eric Meltzer |
"Directly" to me leaves room for, "What else do they rely on? They must have foundation money or something." "Solely" seems more to the point.
@Changaco Any interesting user-facing changes should have a blog post. Seems more natural to link there instead of GitHub issues. |
@whit537 I saw that while I was reading back up :P Either way it's going to stand out. Though, the transparent on a darker background thing makes it a bit difficult to read, so it probably isn't ideal either. |
@rummik You were mostly responding to the gold on the homepage, right? How about changing it there and leaving as-is on inside pages? |
@whit537 Looks good to me :) 👍 |
Let's ask people to support us
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How's this blog post look? |
Hrm, no notifications on closed PR, and can't reopen without restoring the branch I guess? |
Here's the blog post we ended up with: http://blog.gittip.com/post/95126362826/we-depend-on-voluntary-payments |
Looks great! -E On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Chad Whitacre [email protected]
Eric Meltzer |
Thanks for the revision, @ericmeltzer! :-) |
So, now that we have data, what happened to percent of active supporting users after the change? |
Started at 8% and now we're at 13%. Best chart we have is: |
Without knowing any better, I think the difference is probably statistically significant? :-) Actually, kidding aside, this might be a good exercise, to determine the statistical significance of this change. |
Patrons increased (to some extent a vanity measure), but $ didn't. |
Dollars were already increasing. The slope didn't get steeper, therefore little (if any) of that can be attributed to the change you made. |
@webmaven I would tend to disagree. We can look at the actual data, but I expect that those 200 new supporters are all donating small amounts, which is what I would expect to see from this campaign. |
@rohitpaulk If the goal was only 'increasing the percentage of patrons' without expecting any commensurate effect on $, then, the experiment was a success. |
Picking up from gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#78 (comment).
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