SourceForge, amazon, CNET and other services allow users to leave reviews on their own.
For now I would scrap that page as its not sustainable to compete with review tools readily available with 3rd party websites. Samer On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:40 PM, V Barnett <[email protected]> wrote: > > hello, fyi your testimonials page is 9 years out of date. the latest > ones are from 2004...this does NOT inspire confidence in your products. > Please fix this. I want to recommend you but can’t with this kind of > neglect, really. > > thank you > > vb lum > > We actually do track carefully which pages on the websites are heavily > visited and keep these pages up to date. > > It looks like this particular page has not been updated in 9 years. > We've had 100's of millions of downloads in that time, 75 million in > just the last 18 months. I don't think we link to this page in any > prominent way. Google Analytics reports only 48 visits to that page > in the last month. (The entire website gets around 20 million page > views/month). So given these facts I don't think this page has any > impact at all on user confidence in the product. > > So what to do? > > 1) Do nothing? > > 2) Delete the page? > > 3) Update the page? > > I'm not sure user testimonials are particularly useful for to have. > Magazine reviews, awards, etc., have more value than an endorsement > from an unfamiliar name. We do a good job on the awards page, for > example. But I won't argue against anyone who thinks otherwise and > wants to update that page, but my inclination is to simply delete it. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > > > > > http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/testimonials.html > > Testimonials > > 2004 > > 2003 > > 2002 > > 2001 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
