On 4/13/17 7:44 pm, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote:
> 'Confusion' being an understatement, it would have swiftly
> caused shock and horror :)
> Dave
Yep. :) But there are good reasons for comparison. Swift was making an
outrageous joke to draw attention to other actual proposals for the
problems of his day.
Right at the moment there may have been a dip in LC newbies (perhaps,
judging from some imperfect indicators) and naturally there's a
"hunger" to spread the word and get LC into the hands of interested
people. Having a download as visible and easy as possible could be a
realistic measure to help with part of that. Ditto for a very "swift"
signup.
So joking about it might go like: Whatever you do, don't show the
uninitiated and uncouth masses of people your greatest treasure, that
is, your downloads! You must keep those a secret altogether, or at
least make people go through a satisfying number of steps first before
they reach them, so only the elite will find them, being tested and
purified, thus in the proper state of mind to appreciate the true
quality of these executables. Never be tempted by frivolous appeals to
reduce the number of steps or clicks in that process, or to start the
download while they are verifying their email, or heaven forbid, to
roll the signup into the installer. No, friends, the real answer has
been right in front of us the whole time. All we need to do is get LC
tattoos in, let's say, "modest" places. It flies under the radar, but
really makes an impact when revealed in some situations. And you
always know it's there, gives you secret empowerment all day.
Something like that.
You can see why I thought again and held off on that the first post!
Anyway, I would say it's also just a tiny bit shocking
It's daft! And I have ALREADY made the point about the teeny-weeny green
Community button way at bottom-left of the page
to minimise the chance that anyone sees it.
BUT: don't tell the people at LiveCode centre that because they know
BETTER than anyone how to market something,
as one can see from the way the LC newbie number is dropping.
I have criticised the LiveCode web-site many times, as have many others;
and as far as I recall not once have the LiveCode
people admitted that a criticism might, just, possibly have a spot of
validity.
Of course elsewhere if someone never, ever admitted to having made a
misjudgement they'd be called "arrogant",
but you cannot do that with LiveCode because they pay good money to
marketing people to do their website, and they
cannot be seen admitting they might have got the wrong firm; Oh, and
they are perfect.
to have no download links at all on the site. Have you seen the LC
site lately? I could find no download links at all. None. There's the
signup but it's a pretty roundabout process.
I raised it, Richard Gaskin agreed; what happens; sweet Football
Association.
If I were a first-time visitor to the LC web site, I'm not sure
whether I would have snagged a download by the end of my visit or not.
That's why I posted.
Best wishes,
Curry K.
Richmond.
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