Re: [Firebird-website] Notifications overlay

[Carlos H. C. <li...@wa...>]

As annoying as it can be, I think we need such things to create a huge
subscribers database.

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Carlos H. Cantu
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AK> Hi Mark,

AK> I'll try to tune it more during the next week.
AK> It gives ~250 subscribers per day, it is a good marketing channel, 
AK> theoretically with better opening rate than email.

AK> Regards,
AK> Alexey


AK> On 15.07.2017 14:39, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>> On 13-7-2017 16:21, Jiří Činčura wrote:
>>> Hi *,
>>>
>>> the "Please allow us to send notifications about Firebird-related news!"
>>> notification overlay is pretty annoying. Not mentioning the popup from
>>> browser itself. Very bad UX. Ask once, never again.
>>
>> Interesting to note: the overlay was present earlier on Firefox, but 
>> isn't now, but it is still there on Chrome.
>>
>> To be honest, I think it is still aggressive and intrusive; I don't 
>> like it (and yes, I do know I can suppress it by simply blocking / 
>> never allow).
>>
>> Mark


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