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Originally Posted by lance@page99test
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
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Just going to address point one, even though I still believe you should make page viewing open and rating sign up only.
If I am going to push traffic to your website I am going to want people to land on my page first. That way I get a direct benefit from pushing traffic to you, as you know traffic is precious and we all selfish where we want to send it too, if we want to send it off site at all. At the moment saying go to this website and then asking my traffic to sign up, then search for my page, before they can do anything isn't benefiting them. It isn't about pushing friends or family there because if people want to 'game' the system that is already easy to do.
If you have open read with sign up to add ratings, with links directly to author 99pages there is a mutual traffic benefit. I can send traffic to you, my traffic gets to read another page of my novel, and rate it if they want to sign up to your website.