As some of you already noticed, when you click on a link to follow/block/mark as spam a user, you will have to confirm this action on the opening web page:

The reason we added this extra step is because of some users had antivirus software that were scanning their emails and checking the links in them. When those antivirus programs were visiting the links, they were causing the different actions to be taken. We couldn’t filter out the different antivirus programs, because they disguise themselves as normal users, therefore we had to add this extra step.

We would love to hear your ideas on how to deal with this without the extra step, but for now we will have to keep the extra step. 

Topify has been in private beta for too long now and it’s time to move on. So far we were financing Topify from our own pockets. But in order to make Topify available for everyone, it will have to generate some revenue (at least to cover its costs), and therefore it’s time to introduce some premium features.

Like many others in our industry, we thought about going freemium. What we had in mind is offering the current service as the free version and have premium versions (with the features you’ve been requesting for so long) for some price:

(creating tables in Tumblr is a pain, you can find a text version of this table here)

(clarification: all accounts will have DM notifications like today. By “Fast DM delivery” we mean that premium users will get their notifications faster)

This is just our first thoughts on this. The features list was compiled based on your feedback so far. The prices are made up from thin air, it just numbers that seemed right. They probably will change and we might add some other options.

The reason that we post this so early on, is to hear what you think. What we have in mind doesn’t really matter — it’s what you have in mind that matters most. Because if no one is interested in the premium features, we better think of something else :)

So what do you think about this? Would you be willing to pay for Topify premium?