Current status of the Scriffon project

To this day, the use of Scri­f­fon to write and pub­lish text is free and un­lim­it­ed.

It con­cerns:

— the num­ber of drafts that you start;

— the num­ber of texts that you pub­lish;

— how fre­quent­ly you use Scri­f­fon;

— the num­ber of peo­ple who may read your pub­lished writ­ings.

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the project

For the mo­ment, Scri­f­fon does not bring any mon­ey to its cre­ator and de­vel­op­er.

Nev­er­the­less, the ob­jec­tive is to make it a durable and sus­tain­able project. This will en­sure qual­i­ty and con­ti­nu­ity of ser­vice to you and to the oth­er users. In oth­er terms, you don’t have to wor­ry about hav­ing some­day the un­pleas­ant sur­prise to learn that Scri­f­fon clos­es its ser­vice.

The rev­enue mod­el that Scri­f­fon have cho­sen in or­der to ac­com­plish this is based on paid, op­tion­al ad­vanced fea­tures (cf. freemi­um).

This choice guar­an­tees the fol­low­ing:

— Scri­f­fon does not use ad­ver­tis­ing to meet its fi­nan­cial needs; that would spoil the so­bri­ety and min­i­mal­ism of the site.

— Scri­f­fon is not sup­port­ed by any ex­ter­nal fi­nan­cial in­vest­ments; it is on­ly sup­port­ed by its users and the peo­ple who work for the project.

— Scri­f­fon does not have any stock­hold­ers and is not, in a fi­nan­cial point of view, ac­count­able to any­one; that guar­an­tees the in­de­pen­dence of the project.

Ad­vanced paid fea­tures

In a near fu­ture, ad­vanced paid fea­tures for au­thors will be­come avail­able on Scri­f­fon.

The term “au­thor” des­ig­nates a per­son who us­es Scri­f­fon to write or pub­lish, as op­posed to a “read­er” who doesn’t need an ac­count to read pub­lished writ­ings.

The first paid fea­ture will be read­ing sta­tis­tics of texts. It is un­der de­vel­op­ment. It will give you ac­cess to fig­ures and charts re­lat­ed to your pub­lished writ­ings.

That is to say, for each writ­ing, an­swers to the ques­tions:

— How many peo­ple have opened the page of this writ­ing?

— How many have start­ed read­ing it? How many have read un­til the end?

— More gen­er­al­ly, what parts of the text have been read? And in what man­ner: care­ful­ly, skim­ming through?

— How did they get on the page: via Scri­f­fon, Twit­ter, Face­book, Google, an­oth­er site?

Oth­er ad­vanced fea­tures will ap­pear over time.

And al­ways, a free ac­count

In the case you are not in­ter­est­ed in the ad­vanced fea­tures, you will still have ac­cess to the free ac­count and its free fea­tures. How­ev­er, it may be pos­si­ble that some lim­i­ta­tions ap­ply to some of those fea­tures.

For in­stance, the lim­i­ta­tions for a free ac­count could be:

— A max­i­mum num­ber of pen names per ac­count; for ex­am­ple, a free ac­count would on­ly al­low to pub­lish un­der one pen name.

— A fre­quen­cy lim­it for pub­lish­ing; for ex­am­ple, a free ac­count would on­ly al­low one new pub­lished text ev­ery two days.

Those hy­po­thet­i­cal lim­i­ta­tions would not ap­ply for a paid ac­count.

To be con­tin­ued…