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shel
@shel

So we know that the ability to gift Cohost Plus+ subscriptions is in the works. Once it's implemented I think we need to establish a strong culture of gifting subscriptions for all sorts of occasions. Someone made a good post? Give 'em a month of Plus+. Someone had a simcha/big good event happen in their life? Celebrate with some Plus+ gifts.

At my shul they ask people to sponsor oneg (post-services lunch) to honor loved ones and celebrate simchas/good occasions like promotions and births. We should do that with gifting Plus+ for people. Someone gave birth? Give 'em some Plus+! Did you score that promotion? It's Plus+ subscriptions all around.

I think also we should make up some holidays where the custom is to give each other Plus+ subscriptions as presents. On the anniversary of you joining cohost we all celebrate by throwing months of Plus+ at you. On Chanukah you give your loved ones a month of Plus+ for every night of Chanukah. Every time Bolsonaro catches COVID we give each other Plus+. On Balloon Boy Day we give each other Plus+. On the anniversary of the Cohost friends and family phase starting all the old users give Plus+ to their favorite new users. On the anniversary of Cohost going public you give a year of Plus+ to your favorite blog of the year and make a post announcing who you're giving your personal Eggy award to.

The end result is that we'll all accumulate many excess months of Plus+. Some people might have five years of Plus+ paid for already. But it doesn't matter if you're already subscribed through the next five years from all the gift subscriptions. You keep paying your dues because you want to support the site and we still give each other Plus+ as a token of our love and appreciation. Celebrating our community by making it sustainable.

If 60% of current active blogs has Cohost Plus+ then the site would be sustainable. But currently, it's 9%. Less than a thousand blogs and we need like... 5.4k blogs to have Plus+. So let's start throwing cash around. Plus+ is only $5/month!


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in reply to @shel's post:

I honestly kind of like the twitch “gift sub to community” thing. Instead of stacking 100 years of gifted plus on popular people, gift to people who follow them (or maybe people they follow?)

Especially once there is sponsored content, I’d love to see that vibe here.