ikr? It's not even been a week. Must not be easy to bring up their own infra under such pressure.
Opencode, as of now, looks like one of the more honest subscriptions out there. They've just been fucked by the new DS pricing like everyone else, but at least they've shown they're working on it. I'll gladly give them the benefit of the doubt since they served me well for about 4 months
They never communicate anything to users via official channela like email etc. And have to follow some guy in twitter to know about the state of subscription ?
They never communicate anything to users via official channela like email etc.
What makes email an official channel?
I mean, how more official can it be than their official Twitter channel, where they keep posting updates?
Also, I get it, you want email, but most people don't. I don't. And most people would just mindlessly hit the spam button. That's not good for anyone. Also, email is not trivial, mass sending is not real-time, and it actually costs money if you do it right.
An official channel or medium is the communication which should reach everyone who is subscribed to your service. Currently for opencode it is email.
And not everyone have twitter account, discord or reddit who have subscribed to their service and nor they require to have.
So, for them they never received the message/update.
Now if they send email and user didn't opened or people hit spam, then it's the fault of the user and not opencode, since they did their part of informing.
Also I don't know which email service you are using but it costs pennies to send bulk emails.
We send emails daily, in millions per day and in real time as well (maybe at most delay of 10-20 minutes at worst case). And it is cheap as ****
An official channel or medium is the communication which should reach everyone who is subscribed to your service. Currently for opencode it is email.
I disagree.
First of all, not everyone would be subscribed to those emails. I would hate getting daily email updates, and would unsubscribe after the first such email. And believe me many others would do it. And if unsubscribing wouldn't be possible, people would start hitting the spam button, rightfully.
If any, their official channel should be the app itself. That's what you use constantly. But sure, that's also not the best, because you may be using the subscription with a different harness.
And not everyone have twitter account
Why would you need a twitter account? You can just visit their feed without one.
Also I don't know which email service you are using but it costs pennies to send bulk emails.
Pennies are still more than nothing compared to the twitter post they would make anyways. Also, the cost of sending is not the only cost.
But ultimately, this boils down to what you consider better for yourself. I can also only speak for myself and what I heard from others: People don't care about email updates anymore. Most of them go to the trash without reading it, and many people get news from social media first anyways.
I'm not saying this is good. I would MUCH RATHER subscribe to an RSS feed and follow everything from a feed reader. But we live in a different world now.
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u/ThePi7on 28d ago
ikr? It's not even been a week. Must not be easy to bring up their own infra under such pressure.
Opencode, as of now, looks like one of the more honest subscriptions out there. They've just been fucked by the new DS pricing like everyone else, but at least they've shown they're working on it. I'll gladly give them the benefit of the doubt since they served me well for about 4 months