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Going live with the reading meter: what changed in v1.2.0
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> Added later the same day, v0.7.34: the reader sets part of the price. At the foot of every article there is now a reader card with three scales, each starting in the middle. *How useful was this?* changes what you pay: 1 is free, 3 is the price, 5 is double. *More like this?* changes how often you see pages like it. *Level of detail* tells your persona whether you want it lighter or deeper. "Don't charge me" is still there, at the end, as the exception. A page is now charged only as much as you read it *and* only as much as you say it was worth. Paying more for an excellent page is a signal we did not have before; it is in what you can send us.
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