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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:05:25PM -0400 or thereabouts, Dylan Carlson wrote: |
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> As long as we're in general agreement that "if it doesn't get used, it gets |
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> taken down", what is the problem? |
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Because we don't all agree what "used" means. |
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> There are a lot of tools that could be |
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> of great or negative value, and we won't know until we try. |
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Completely agree and I think we should give this one a try. I think it's |
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important to agree what "used" means ahead of time, however, to avoid |
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people getting pissed off down the road. |
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I may think that, if only one person is actively using this site and 5,000 |
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users read it per week, that it's not worth continuing to support. Others |
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might feel differently. If we can agree what "used" means ahead of time, |
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we don't have to have a huge argument down the road. |
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> Let's do what almost any other website in the world does when testing a new |
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> feature. We'll call it "beta". If it doesn't work out, it goes away. |
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Most other websites also have quantifiable metrics that they use to gauge |
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the success of their site, be that number of transactions, number of |
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eyeballs or whatever. |
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--kurt |
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