📢 considering limiting basecamp to 20 ppl
due to limited interest and usage, i'm considering reverting the basecamp to a free account. that requires kicking ~14 ppl to get back down to the cap of 20. there are that many who have never posted.
i'm happy with the experiment and i think i got some info about what people will and won't do. i think i need to focus on proceeding with my plan of making content that doesn't expect people to actually interact, so interacting or practicing is fully optional to what's going on.
if i limit it to the free account requirements, then i can leave it up indefinitely with no problem even if usage is light. it's awkward to be slightly above the cap while not a lot is happening.
feedback?
PS if you haven't posted enough for me to remember your name and that you've participated, and you don't want to be kicked, reply here saying so. i don't know who is reading stuff and wants to be here, and who isn't.
i'm happy with the experiment and i think i got some info about what people will and won't do. i think i need to focus on proceeding with my plan of making content that doesn't expect people to actually interact, so interacting or practicing is fully optional to what's going on.
if i limit it to the free account requirements, then i can leave it up indefinitely with no problem even if usage is light. it's awkward to be slightly above the cap while not a lot is happening.
feedback?
PS if you haven't posted enough for me to remember your name and that you've participated, and you don't want to be kicked, reply here saying so. i don't know who is reading stuff and wants to be here, and who isn't.
After reading this post I understand that this basecamp project was started to test out your idea about how to help people who want to improve at reason and thinking. The idea included creating content where people have to interact more. You have achieved your goal of testing that idea.
I think a lot of people will feel they are losing exclusive access. If there were some way to let them see what was happening so can they can still watch so they can still have the exclusive access.
A test can be devised which lets people in if they are interactive enough on other forums (curi blog / discord / FIGG).
I'm happy to be kicked if there are ~21 ppl who are active or reply (like, if you need it).
> also a large public basecamp would get harassed by andy
You could make it a subscribestar thing? e.g. free now for ppl who keep using it, but part of a tier for future subscribers. If you kick more ppl than necessary then you could offset the cost of Basecame some; so when you did go above the free tier it wasn't just 1 person triggering a $99/mo expense. If it gets less active then you have some buffer to let things run a bit longer organically. IDK if that's against TOS. Seems worth mentioning.
One idea is making the 20th subscribers account a dummy one. no one owns it and the login details will be shared with those ~14 ppl after vetting. Maybe they can also post with adding their own name in the end of every comment etc. Will be confusing though.
Another is the "Boost" feature.
Basecamp works better for helping/training people.
The new website will be a improved FI centric version of Basecamp.
I was about to say AnneB's point. That comes under training I guess. I can ask about overreaching in this post http://curi.us/2177-hardness-emotions-mental-automation but I could get better help here by showing via writing in my own words what I understand till now and write my own post on it ('Doing easy things'.. one for ex).
have you considered hiring a developer?
yes. they are very expensive. it's hard to find good ones and it's hard to work on a project like this with someone who doesn't understand how to use a discussion forum, so they have to be micromanaged about how the features work.
getting low income for all the work i put in is one thing. significant negative income is something else that's more problematic.
So while I would prefer to keep lurking / not be kicked I'm OK if I am.
I like that we can post text in different colors, although I haven't done that much.
I agree that it's easier to post images here than to curi.us. I often drag and drop a screenshot from my desktop to here.
I haven't explored basecamp fully. If there is any feature I am missing, please tell.