suggestions that will never happen

[denise]

I'm looking to do a dw_biz post about "suggestions that will never happen" that we can then link to from dw_suggestions and the suggestions generator: things that we've been asked for multiple times that we can explain our reasoning on why they won't happen, so people can know to stop asking.

So, what are the suggestions you guys keep seeing that we've decided against in the past? Off the top of my head, I can think of "more userpics", "allow userpics to be hosted off-site", "let us just buy X paid account feature, not the whole paid account" (specifically, a-la-carte userpics), and "make X feature free for everyone". I'm sure there are others, though; what am I forgetting?

Comments

[mark]

I thought we talked about this online the other day. Why will 'more userpics' never happen?

[cleverthylacine]

I am guessing that she doesn't mean "we'll never increase the number of userpics per user group" but rather something along the lines of "we'll never sell anything like 'Insane Userpics'" (and seriously, Squeaky is nuts, and I often wonder if Insane Userpics aren't the reason his Userpic databases are always fucking up all over the place...I would rather have the number my account gets to have and no more and be able to count on them, than to buy more.)

[denise]

It won't necessarily never happen, it'll just never happen becasue someone submitted a suggestion to us and we went "oh man I never thought of that before!" etc.

I just want to put a moratorium on those because they're so common.