announce the new system

[chadwhitacre]

Reticketing from @webmaven at #3390 (comment).

[mattbk]

Includes updating the front page at all?

[ehmatthes]

Includes updating the front page at all?

It has to; Gratipay needs to pull people in, both project leaders and potential funders.

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from @kaguillera on #3428:

I suggest apart from answering this comment/thread/issue directly that it should be emailed/posted/blogged/tweeted/etc somewhere so that users like myself know what is going on.

[chadwhitacre]

I put up a simple notice in #3452. This ticket is for a proper blog post.

[chadwhitacre]

Here's a draft: https://medium.com/@Gratipay/2453d3c53077 (still very much in-process).

[chadwhitacre]

Blocking on:

• add a team profile page (Create Team profile page #3464)
• turning subscriptions on in the UI (turn subscriptions back on in UI #3432)
• self-serve PayPal (Let people do their own paypal config #2387)
• require identity for PayPal (easy enough, but depends on take over identity verification #3458)
• split out revenue model question (split out "what's your revenue model?" question #3456)

[webmaven]

Left some feedback on the draft.

[chadwhitacre]

Thanks! :)

[chadwhitacre]

#3458 is too much work to get done before tomorrow. :-( I'm striking it from the punchlist.

[chadwhitacre]

Ready for final review: https://medium.com/@Gratipay/2453d3c53077.

[clone1018]

@whit537 Every team link in that post 404's for me.

[chadwhitacre]

@clone1018 Yeah, pending #3464—added to punchlist.

[chadwhitacre]

Outta time. :-(

I'll be back later tonight ...

[chadwhitacre]

Okay! We have PRs open for #3432 and #3456. Once we land those we can give https://medium.com/@Gratipay/2453d3c53077 a once-over and then publish. Then we can follow up with lots of users who are waiting for this post.

[chadwhitacre]

We're live!

https://medium.com/gratipay-blog/gratipay-2-0-2453d3c53077

💃

[chadwhitacre]

#3476 and https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/601565078547083265

[chadwhitacre]

I followed up with everyone in our support queue and in my private email.

[webmaven]

Was the feedback I gave on the post helpful or just distracting (I can't see what I said anymore, or if you responded)?

[chadwhitacre]

@webmaven Helpful! I believe I incorporated all or almost all of your suggestions, though further editing may have obscured that.

[chadwhitacre]

Reopening to send an email blast. We did this for "Gratipocalypse", so we should do the same for "Gratipay 2.0" to maintain parallelism.

[rohitpaulk]

We did this for "Gratipocalypse", so we should do the same for "Gratipay 2.0" to maintain parallelism.

+1. A friend of mine asked me whether Gratipay is still processing payments, coz he 'didn't receive an email after the Gratipocalypse one'

[chadwhitacre]

Done in #3510.