Changes to Swaggle Policy
Swaggle has become more popular recently, putting a burden on our little service. We're typically seeing lag times of 30 minutes or more for messages to go through, which makes it not viable for the purpose it was originally intended: a way for friends to coordinate their activities on the go. If you have to wait 30 min. to find out that a friend is somewhere and wants you to join them, and then they have to wait 30 min. to get your answer, your evening may be ruined.
So we have two choices: add more capacity, which is somewhat expensive (considering, as has previously been noted, we're not making any money off this) or make the services less popular.
We're going to try a little of both. From now on, we're going to be enforcing the "no commercial purposes" rule on Swaggle groups. That is, if your group is using Swaggle to communicate about some topic related to selling something, we're going to have to de-activate it. That's the best way we have today to decrease the throughput of messages.
That said, if your commercially-minded group is really getting value out of Swaggle, we're going to give you a way to pay for it. For $30 / month, you'll be exempted from the policy.
If your group has other special needs you'd be willing to pay for, let us know, maybe we can work something out.
Our goal here isn't to make money, it's to keep this service running. If we get enough from charging the commercial users to expand our capacity, great! If we end up needing less capacity because the commercial users don't want to pay, great!
We apologize for having to make this change. I wish everything could be free for all for ever.
So we have two choices: add more capacity, which is somewhat expensive (considering, as has previously been noted, we're not making any money off this) or make the services less popular.
We're going to try a little of both. From now on, we're going to be enforcing the "no commercial purposes" rule on Swaggle groups. That is, if your group is using Swaggle to communicate about some topic related to selling something, we're going to have to de-activate it. That's the best way we have today to decrease the throughput of messages.
That said, if your commercially-minded group is really getting value out of Swaggle, we're going to give you a way to pay for it. For $30 / month, you'll be exempted from the policy.
If your group has other special needs you'd be willing to pay for, let us know, maybe we can work something out.
Our goal here isn't to make money, it's to keep this service running. If we get enough from charging the commercial users to expand our capacity, great! If we end up needing less capacity because the commercial users don't want to pay, great!
We apologize for having to make this change. I wish everything could be free for all for ever.
