Thanks a lot for the feedback. That’s extremely encouraging. We thought the getting the sequences done would be great for example that case and we hope it will thinks more approachable for your busy friends.
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That’s gonna be bad news for us since all the primary action buttons are green and somewhat banner shaped. LOL.
That’s pretty convincing. For some reason I had that limited access idea locked in my head. It just stuck for some reason. We will definitely have a chat about changing that very soon.
(Some background: We were going to launch initially with monthly subscriptions, where you get new content every month. In the end, we decided to start with a core sequence and gauge the feedback from everyone. So we had a subscription model “locked in” from early days.)
Update: This limitation and wording has now been removed. However, in our terms of service, we give you a minimum of two years to download the content. We’ll keep it up as long as it’s technically and financially feasible, or for two years, whichever comes later.
Another good suggestions. That’s something I overlook all the time and is pretty easy to fix.
Yes, we’re very cognisant that some content just doesn’t work as spoken word. We thought Less Wrong content was a great test case because most articles translate well to spoken word and is pretty unique in that the sequences nicely cluster content for us to offer.
It’s great to get all this feedback. Answer updated. Thanks.
What we’re really interested in doing moving forward, aside from more sequences, is turning the promoted posts into a podcast. This would be offered as a paid monthly subscription.
We’d love the community’s feedback on this.
Edit As suggested by somervta, if anyone is themselves interested in narrating some content, please get in touch with us. We’d love to get people familiar with LW content to help out with the load. When we start adding more channels, we expect our of main challenges to be keeping the quality of the readers high.
Interesting. I love how everyone has such different preferences.
We’re definitely going to stick strictly to the human-narrated content, but there is certainly a growing market of services which can get you your TTS content and we think they have a place too.
Your confusion is warranted. I quickly changed the terms to one year based on feedback, but didn’t update the description text. Sorry for the confusion.
That’s a good idea. Any suggestions on the best way to go about doing that?
New Sequences and General Update From Castify
Thanks for that. I hope you enjoy it.
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In response to some of the comments here and as a bit of an experiment, we’ve made The Simple Truth mini audiobook available with a CC-BY-SA license. Enjoy and share alike.
The issue is that we have been called parasites, yet we haven’t done anything parasitic—in fact, short of asking for feedback, we haven’t done anything at all. We are asking for feedback because we don’t want to be parasitic. We understand there will some people who will never be comfortable with us using their stuff, some who wish to be compensated, some are happy to allow LessWrong [management] to decide what’s in their interest and some who are happy to freely allow us to use their material, perhaps subject to some restrictions.
What’s offensive is you using loaded terms to those who are actively trying to engage with you to maximize the utility for the community. If the end result is that there are no terms beneficial to both us and the community, so be it. The premise that we’d like to use your stuff with no benefit to you is incorrect. We would rather not pursue our business model than be parasites.
That was why we created this discussion in the first place.
Thanks. New sequence coming very soon.
FYI, The Simple Truth, as an experiment is now CC-BY-SA licensed.
We’re doing LessWrong content as audio. There are currently several commutes worth of audio from the sequences, with more coming soon.
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One of our customers uses a Firefox plugin called downThemAll which, given an podcast feed, will download all the MP3s for you. I suspect this will most closely resemble the outcome you’re looking for.
Hi there. If you go to the home page and press the green button, you’ll hear a sample (you can listen to a whole article). But yes, we are planning to have a sample for each channel. For now, I’ll just mention that you can hear audio on the channel page. Thanks.
Edit Sample now available on the channel page.