FYI. This is no longer an issue. It was fixed even before ovi256 posted this comment which is why in the original post, he mentioned that the server was down. That's because his IP address had been blocked and a fix was deployed.
He later edited the comment to remove the part where he said that the site was down...
I got your email, too bad you decided to go this route rather than emailing me about it first. It's all good though. No hard feelings.
Glad you fixed it so fast and sorry about being an asshole earlier. It's a bit of social engineering : it gets things going - if you hate me and/or the disclosure you are more likely to fix the hole. Stupid, I know, but it works.
I confirm that in my initial post, I wrongly assumed the demo page was down. Downforeverythingorjustme.com confirmed afterwards that my IP was blocked - luccastera moved incredibly fast! And right now, the canned messages seem to be whitelisted, which fixed the problem for good.
Thanks. We've added a mini-menu so that you can control which one of the views you want to see. In addition, once you click on one view, it will stop the auto-changing all together.
Sorry, but not good enough for this particular hater of "dynamic content". If a reader wants the content to stay still, he is not going to think to click on it because clicking usually has the opposite effect: to get something static to change.
Thanks for your thoughtful feedback. You've raised some great questions.
I strongly believe that these things are not trivial to do well yourself and maintaining such an infrastructure will distract you from your core competency.
You should be convinced after reading our homepage that it is worth your money and maybe the current copy doesn't reflect that well enough. We'll keep iterating on that, gather more data points, analyze it, highlight success stories of integration, etc...
I strongly believe that these things are not trivial to do well yourself and maintaining such an infrastructure will distract you from your core competency.
Don't tell that to us here. Say that in a convincing manner on the homepage.
Depending on your volume, we can work out something. Send us an email info@messagepub.com with estimates of your volume and we'll get in touch with you.
Well, the business upside is that they can work on features instead of debugging a broken browser.
A more esoteric upside would be that a company that speaks out visibly against IE gives me, a technical minded customer, this warm tingly feeling inside. It suggests that someone in the company is like-minded with me. Which in turn suggests that their product and direction might appeal to me, too.
It'd obviously be a different story if this was a product aiming for joe sixpack and the mass-market. But since messaging APIs are a hard sell in the joe-sixpack market in first place I can only applaud their move; focus your resources on the product, not on the latest IE bug.
