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Three to six months is an acceptable period of 'crunch time'? That's just shitty planning.

They said they didn't want to be contacted. It isn't up to others to decide that they are a special case. Any marketer would find the wiggle room to make their email a special case.

"The four most expensive words in the English language are 'this time it's different.'" - John Templeton

My buzzword at work this week is going to be F-commerce.

Heads up this is a 'pivot' - the initial site was a social network for gay men called Fabulis. They then rebranded to artsy/design discounts. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Exactly. There's an existing media ecosystem to support these types of companies that perpetuates itself.

Why not just write a WordPress plugin that does the same thing and focus on building out the membership?

No.

But failed hubris is in their usual scope.

Also relevant http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/pages/interactive#/?sta...

It's the people not the software? >shudders< ;)

I'm just glad we didn't kill Piggy.

So he's mad he can't be The Star?

They aren't familiar with not getting what they want.

He thinks he invented cross-posting?

This is a very important point and really takes into account a lot of WordPress's growth.

Yeah I'm sure they'll get right on that.