Thank you, Substack team, for clarifying the Chat feature. The "business framing" of the Chat feature "as a live event -- where, 'hey paid-readers, we're going to text-chat on this day, between these hours, about this topic'" now makes the Chat feature make sense to me (over, say, "a 'commenting party' in the commenting engine of a post"…
Thank you, Substack team, for clarifying the Chat feature. The "business framing" of the Chat feature "as a live event -- where, 'hey paid-readers, we're going to text-chat on this day, between these hours, about this topic'" now makes the Chat feature make sense to me (over, say, "a 'commenting party' in the commenting engine of a post").
Can Chat be configured as follows:
* The ability to give the free-readers the following 'level of access': "As a free-reader, I can see and read ALL the 'chat threads' (both publisher -initiated and paid-reader -initiated), but, I am not allowed to reply-to-a-thread, and, I am not allowed to post-an-emoji to a thread/reply. In other words, a "pure full-read-only ('see all') for the free-reader"? [with, of course, some type of "'Upgrade to paid' call-to-action" -- taking the free-reader to web to complete the payment (as mobile in-app payment is not a thing yet (my understanding)) -- with an auto-redirect back to the Chat-in-question after successful completion of purchase.]
[🤔 "Mobile in-app payments" is going to be a God send for "live events on Chat". And if/when "Mobile in-app payments" happens -- IF it turns out to be a 2nd payment processor (not owned by Stripe),... THEN will Writers/ContentCreators/Publishers then have to further think of themselves as 'wholesalers with wholesale pricing' and not 'retailers with retail pricing'? See: https://substack.com/@tomkudla/note/c-65359431 ]
Thank you, Substack team, for clarifying the Chat feature. The "business framing" of the Chat feature "as a live event -- where, 'hey paid-readers, we're going to text-chat on this day, between these hours, about this topic'" now makes the Chat feature make sense to me (over, say, "a 'commenting party' in the commenting engine of a post").
Can Chat be configured as follows:
* The ability to give the free-readers the following 'level of access': "As a free-reader, I can see and read ALL the 'chat threads' (both publisher -initiated and paid-reader -initiated), but, I am not allowed to reply-to-a-thread, and, I am not allowed to post-an-emoji to a thread/reply. In other words, a "pure full-read-only ('see all') for the free-reader"? [with, of course, some type of "'Upgrade to paid' call-to-action" -- taking the free-reader to web to complete the payment (as mobile in-app payment is not a thing yet (my understanding)) -- with an auto-redirect back to the Chat-in-question after successful completion of purchase.]
[🤔 "Mobile in-app payments" is going to be a God send for "live events on Chat". And if/when "Mobile in-app payments" happens -- IF it turns out to be a 2nd payment processor (not owned by Stripe),... THEN will Writers/ContentCreators/Publishers then have to further think of themselves as 'wholesalers with wholesale pricing' and not 'retailers with retail pricing'? See: https://substack.com/@tomkudla/note/c-65359431 ]