As work begins with Tabulas 1.0, we feel it's our ... obligation to let you guys decide how the new system is going to be structured.

As much as we'd like to keep Tabulas 100% free, there is no possible way that economics will support that ideology ...

Tabulas will be offering both free and non-free accounts. Obviously, the non-free accounts will be more feature packed than the free ones. Off the bat, we can say that hit logging will probably not be available for everyone (although AIM tracking might be ...) due to the high CPU usage.

We hope that we can charge for a greater image storage fee and additional styling abilities with images; we're leaning towards "phases" for free accounts.

As of now, we're leaning towards allowing users 75 images quota for the first month they join Tabulas. After the one month, their limit will be pushed to 150. This is to prevent one-day signups posting 150 images without ever journaling once.

Paid users will probably receive 400 images storage with advanced features for $25/year.

But we'd like YOUR thoughts... how should Tabulas set limitations on free/paid users?

P.S. Beta users will be alloted the same features as paid users at no cost =)
Posted by tabulas on June 8, 2003 at 12:37 AM | 42 Comments

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Comment posted on June 19th, 2003 at 01:49 PM
No real suggestions....however, just want to say that this tabulas is much better than xanga. I shall now try and convert everyone I know to tabulas starting with baldos11.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 11:25 PM
Please look here:

http://www.tabulas.com/~tabulas/3755.html

I posted another suggestion and bug report there. Now don't tell me i've not been submitting bug reports.. :p
Comment posted on June 10th, 2003 at 12:38 AM
More like suggestions to me :)
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 11:13 PM
Have a feature suggestion and bug report:

Bug: I tried to change my username to "jiv" and then back to "sanjiv". That went perfectly fine. But now when I make a post, and try to access my post through the link in the "recent entires" box in the admin panel, it leads me to tabulas.com/~jiv which doesn't exist. The same applies to my old posts in the recent entries box. What's supposed to be "http://www.tabulas.com/entry.php?user=sanjiv&expand=589" shows up as "http://www.tabulas.com/entry.php?user=jiv&expand=589".

Suggestion: For comments, if a user is replying to a comment, can you please indent that comment slightly to the right? So visually we can see which posts are comments to the journal entry, and which posts are replies to comments. Would make things look neater also.
Comment posted on June 10th, 2003 at 12:37 AM
please do not double post bugs. post them once; i will get them.
Comment posted on June 10th, 2003 at 12:36 AM
The problem here is that some templates use a very small width and even a small indentation will destroy those changes.

we're working on a slight workaround with the release of 1.0 once we get the styles standardized.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 11:15 PM
Heh, i forgot to mention. Now my site is tabulas.com/~sanjiv, but when I try to change my username, the old username shows up as "jiv". There's definitely something broken somewhere.. conflicting records? Please fix this up for me, and change it all to "sanjiv".
Comment posted on June 10th, 2003 at 12:39 AM
Your browser has cached the old pages. Do a force reload.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 11:19 PM
Ok, so when i tried to change my username from "jiv" (when it was actually sanjiv) to sanjiv1, it said incorrect password (yes, i used the correct password). I logged out, logged in again, and problem fixed. Recent entries point to the right site and the change username screen shows the correct old username. Well it's definitely a bug that somehow fixed itself.
Comment posted on June 10th, 2003 at 12:40 AM
Your browser has cached old cookies. Logging in/logging out will destroy the old cookie and set a new one, which is why it seemed to fix itself. as for your confusions over your old username coming up after changing names, your browser has cached the pages.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 08:23 PM
alright this isn't a bug, but is there any way to differentiate entry of new comments and replies to comments. i know u r supposed to click on the "Reply to Comment" link but sometimes u forget (like me) and the comment is out of the thread. So perhaps an additional line such as "Reply to LisNa (Mon June 9 at 12:38pm)" on top of the "Add a comment" to make things clearer? juz a suggestion...
Comment posted on June 10th, 2003 at 12:38 AM
Yeah, hopefully with 1.0 it'll be more clearer. i'm trying to redo some of the comment pages because the threading/replying to isn't so clear.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 11:20 PM
there definitely is.. i think just adding a couple of and 's for replies to comments would do the trick. read my post above (dated Tuesday June 10 at 12:13 am)
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 08:17 PM
oh ok... maybe I haven't experienced so many bugs yet, so nothing much to gripe abt. Will look harder next time! thanks anyway...
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 11:38 AM
how abt me? I'm still waiting for that beta tester status to be endowed upon yours truly... or did I not get it cos of something I did or did not do?
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 03:06 PM
Ok ok. You too :P
Comment posted on June 10th, 2003 at 08:10 AM
yeay!! thank you!!
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 09:31 AM
Bug: Can't seem to upload my photos. After clicking upload, the page will load as if it's uploading but then after that the next screen says that I have a total of 0 images uploaded successfully..
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 10:59 AM
Yo'ure doing this from the entry page or your gallery page?
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 02:01 PM
it was from the gallery
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 03:35 PM
Interestingly enough, I just ran into the same problem you did while upgrading the gallery coding. What size are the images you're trying to upload? I noticed it happens when you try to upload gargnatuan files ...
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 06:43 PM
is there no filesize limit when uploading?
Comment posted on June 10th, 2003 at 12:41 AM
yes there is, which is why there were problems. :)

there's a 3meg cap on images.
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 03:48 PM
gargantuan? hmm.. one of the images i uploaded was around 4 megs, heh.. I'll try with a smaller file soon..

Using Mozilla by the way.. My IE is screwed and sometimes won't load pages properly
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 03:04 PM
What browser are you using? I just uploaded an image fine from the gallery ...
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 04:21 PM
I've uploaded an image too.. I guess it's that 4 meg file I was trying to upload that caused the problem. Oh well, time to rescan..
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 09:07 AM
on the subject of beta testing, could i apply for it too? :P
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 03:05 PM
sadly it was a first come first serve type of deal. but if you contribute enough bug reports to this tabulas journal i will be more than happy to give you a beta account ;)
Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 03:25 PM
maybe people would like it better if you had a flat fee rather than a monthy or yearly payment. it's a lot less hassle, although it is a risk for you too. but i know i'd prefer that and not have to worry about other payments... and btw, being a beta tester would be lovely...;)
Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 08:47 AM
heh.. exactly. no harm anyway.. ;-)
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 02:00 AM
am i being ignored? ;D havn't really developed my tabulas site but been using e account a lot definitely..
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 03:06 PM
ok ok. you get one. but you have to help submit bug reports! :)
Comment posted on June 9th, 2003 at 06:44 PM
thanks roy!

victoryvictoria (guest)

Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 08:18 AM
Yup roy..i thought you were gonna give out the Beta Tester status to a few more ppl? *hint* too :P
Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 12:28 PM
done :P

victoryvictoria (guest)

Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 10:14 PM
w00h00 thanks roy you're da man!! tabulas RAWKS! :)

victoryvictoria (guest)

Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 08:16 AM
Yup roy..i thought you were gonna give out the Beta Tester status to a few more ppl? *hint* too :P
Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 03:21 AM
Weren't you gonna give out beta acoounts to some of us? *hint*hint* Anyway, those limits sound good right now. Heh, "unlimited images" sound nice too.

Oh, somebody suggested the ability to link to images instead of actually uploading them once the limit has been reached. Will that be implemented? It'll be useful for us free users.
Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 12:29 PM
done :P
Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 11:47 PM
Whoa thanks, Roy! You da man!
Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 01:23 AM
you might want to setup paid accounts to allow infinite images... it sounds cool, and i doubt many people are going to go much beyond 400 anyway. just a thought.
Comment posted on June 8th, 2003 at 12:30 PM
Ooh. I always shy away from infinite because that's too limitless. It's true that people might NOT use more than 400, but I guarantee you that someone will try to push that limit by their own. I rather set a high limit. I think 400 is high enough... and then people can pay for more space as they need it (like $10/year for 400 more images).

I mean if you think about it, the per year thing is an incredible low cost for people ... :)