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Originally Posted by altworld
Just some quick thoughts...
(1) Unable to direct traffic straight to my page 99 excerpt making it useless as a promo tool as I couldn't post a link to it from my blog (unless I missed something).
(2) Don't like having to sign in to view pages, sign in to leave a rating yes, but to view? That will just drive people away, no one is that free with their information anymore.
(3) Interesting as a writing tool as a mistake was picked up, I got kicked around a lot on it because my page 99 dumps you into a middle of a transition conversation, and doesn't say anything about the book.
(4) What was maddening was getting voted down by people saying it wasn't their genre, even when its clearly marked as Paranormal.
Nick D
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Thanks, Nick... love your candid feedback. I've numbered your comments so that I can address them clearly.
1. In order to keep the feedback unbiased, we currently make it very difficult for writers to send their friends and family to their page 99. We do this because we will soon be launching a "Best 99s" page for each genre -- so we have to minimize the potential for 'gaming' the system. However, we will be building out a way for you to send people directly to your page 99 once the rating period has ended (even if it doesn't make the Best 99s page!).
2. All we have right now is feedback-based functionality -- there's nothing else to do on the site, really (yet!). To make things easier, we will be adding Facebook and Twitter login options so that you don't have to create a new account on our site -- and we already offer the "Remember me" option so that you never have to login again. As we add more browsable content to the site, the need to login will go away (but it'll always be there for the feedback portion of the experience).
3. We're looking into giving writers a way to 'set up' their page 99 or give a book synopsis -- so that readers have more context.
4. We've tried to make it clearer to readers that they should select genres before rating -- the default is all genres. We could look at forcing users to select genres as a first activity... we'll continue to monitor this issue closely.
In addition, within the next week (for new page 99s added to the site), you'll be able to include a link to your Twitter handle so that you can build a following of readers from your Page 99.
Again, we appreciate the feedback. We want to make the site awesome for writers and readers.
Lance