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I need a module that adds a "subscribe to this blog" block on each blog. Anybody, including anonymous visitors, should be able to enter an email address to subscribe, and at the end of every day, if the blog has new content, an email would be sent to all the subscribers, listing the titles of the new entries and a link to the blog. In the email, it should also provide a link for the user to unsubscribe.
The blogs on my site use the flexinode-2 content type, not the traditional blog content type. I am using 4.6.5 currently, but will be upgrading to 4.7 soon. Therefore, the module should work with 4.6.5 and hopefully upgrade to 4.7 easily.
Private messaging module seems to have related functionality, as it is able to email a user once a day if they have unread messages.
I will pay you $15, through PayPal, for the creation of this module. If you are interested, please reply here, or use the contact form to get in touch with me.
Thank you.
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Notify module
Try the notify module
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any self respecting developer ...
Any developer worth her potential, programming in nearly any language - C++, C#, php, java, python, perl, and using XHTML, CSS, XSL, etc. - charges at least $100.00 dollars per hour.
Would you ask your attorney to review your last will and testament for $15.00. Would you trust the work of an attorney who would perform such a review for $15.00?
Would you ask your physician to perform surgery on you, your fingers, your eyes, your ears, your heart, for $15.00. Would you trust the work of any physician who would perform surgery on you for $15.00?
Honey, giving you the benefit of doubt for naivete, your request disrespects developers, software engineers, computer scientists, and whatever other names we go by. We perform scientifically creative work with pride for which we have spent years in college developing skills, for which we constantly learn new skills, work that requires not only development but testing too, for which you as a potential customer would be very unhappy if you experienced problems.
Why should a developer, any scientist, any artist for that matter, be asked to do anything for slave wages?
You also disrespect yourself and others by not checking through the existing generously contributed modules for something that already does what you want as well.
Please demonstrate some potential by demonstrating some respect.
Next time offer $1,500.00 not $15.00.
If you think that figures is high - read the tutorial on developing modules and try building the module yourself. You may find you will likely spend $1,500.00 of your own time trying, especially if its your first time.
By the way, I require a 50% retainer in advance.
spritefully yours
spritefully yours
Technical assistance provided to the Drupal community on my own time ...
Thank yous appreciated ...
No need to ridicule..
You made your point in the first paragraph of your response. No need to ridicule. The poster asked a question, showed courtesy and, other than perhaps underestimating the complexity of his request or the average hourly pay of a developer, did nothing to provoke a lecture.
More constructive would it be to point this user to the concept of bounties or reverse-bounties or point the user to an existing module that may provide (part of) the answer. His or her $15 may not be sufficient to get the job done but it may be a start when others find the feature useful and start chipping in.
By the way, there's no doubt that programmers provide a valuable service but comparing their work to physicians performing eye, ear or heart surgery might just be stretching it a bit?
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Hi everybody,
I'm going to create a website just like ebay (same features and over), i offer 8,5$ for that...
Thanks to contact me if you're interested...
Let's not be too harsh ...
the initial request wasn't exactly for e-bay.
Nice post
I agree 100%
Tell that to the guy getting the remote operation
There is a definite need to ridicule here. $15 may create a module of the type requested, but .... what will the original poster do when some SOB subscribes his ex-girlfriend and her entire family to every blog on the site? How about if we sign abuse@fbi.gov up for all of them?
Come to think of it, I could make up a hotmail account, sign up for a blog, then throw the contents of a 'millions cd' onto my subscriber list and begin spamming via that server. When site admin bumps me, I can do it again.
Will checks be in place to prevent abuse of this system? How will those checks be implemented? How often will the system generate email? How will it prevent burnout if there are large numbers of subscribers and/or large numbers of updates? How does the site owner verify that unsubscribes come from the correct person and not above-mentioned SOB? What constitutes an update -- an original blog post or a comment on a post? etc. etc. etc.
But, being a front-line spam fighter, it is the abuse potential which worries me most. I don't object to the dollar figure as much as the 'from my beginner's standpoint, this isn't complicated' attitude.
In most cases, you get what you pay for. In this case, every postmaster on the Internet could end up paying for this luser's cluelessness. That is wrong.
In response
Sprite,
I am not an expert programmer, not even an intermediate. This module, from my beginners perspective, does not seem terribly complicated. My initial thoughts were that an expert could customize some of the existing code of private message module and notify module for my needs without too much effort. If its a lot more complicated then that, my appologies for the lowball offer.
I don't mean to insult anyone by offering some money for development. I'm sorry, I cannot afford to pay $1500 for a module. If your time is so valuable, why did you waste it responding to my request?
If anyone else has a need for this type of functionality, maybe we can chip in together to fund the cost, as suggested by visserj. BTW, thanks for the support Visserj
If this were WordPress...
If this were the WordPress forums, you would probably get a few volunteers offering to put this module together for you. Why are the Drupal forums so different? Is it that Drupal is much more commercial in nature? Or is it the dominance of professional programmers in the Drupal community?
This whole discussion is a bit disappointing to me. I was hoping to switch part of my site from WordPress to Drupal, but it starting to look like this could cost me some real money.
Most websites are pretty low budget affairs. Until recently, I was happy if I generated $10-$20 a month in advertising revenue. Suggesting to someone to spend $1,500 just to be able to email subscribers when new content has been posted is a bit outrageous. I think it was generous to offer up the $15 dollars for this simple request. A high school aged programmer or other beginner would probably appreciate the extra cash.
By the way, the free Subscribe2 and wp-email-notification plugin for WordPress can do what you are looking for. I'm currently using the wp-email-notification plugin for my WordPress site and it works really well.
If this were
If this were WordPress...
you'd be missing out on a (imho superior) CMS called Drupal ;)
Subscription module
In the downloads section.
Maybe
I might do it, but I think the subscription module does a similar thing. It does sound worth a little more than $15 too, but could probably be put together by piecing some of the other modules together.
I've been wanting to start a drupal module just to contribute. If no one else takes it, maybe I could see what I could do.
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Subscription is similar, however
The difference between the subscription module and the module I described above is that anonymous users are able to subscribe and keep up to date on the blog updates just by providing an email address. An email would be sent out once per day, only if a user's blog (or whatever content type is programmed for) has new entires. This would help to increase the # of return visitors to the site, and the emails could also be a great marketing tool, if say you included a text based ad at the bottom of the email related to the topic of the blog.
The SimpleNews module also seems similar in that it allows anonymous users to subscribe, but for newsletters.
Does anyone else see value in the module? If so, maybe we can both contribute to make this more appealing for the developer. Thank you Brad for your interest.
subscription to listserv
One quick work around might be to use subscription and have one of the subscribing listserv addresses email to a listserv redistribution ... that would also allow folks to get digest updates?