Why doesn't WinCustomize have Section X?
A FAQ answered
Friday, June 17, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Nearly every day we receive emails from users asking why we don't have a section for a given program. The answer is usually fairly straight forward (often depressingly straight forward): The people who make program X don't respond to emails from us.
To have a gallery on WinCustomize.com the following criteria have to be met:
(1) The program that uses the content has to be reasonably popular
(2) The people who make the program have to be willing to link to their gallery in a way that will send users here.
(3) The people who make the program whose content we'd be hosting have to agree to help "seed" the gallery to get it going.
That's pretty much it. So if you have a favorite program whose skins you wish we had, contact the authors and ask them to contact us about getting a gallery up for them. WinCustomize.com has 2.1 MILLION registered users and monthly traffic that exceeds 3 million unique visitors, it's a great way to get a program much greater visibility. But in return, we need the program authors to send us traffic too.
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Reply #2 Friday, June 17, 2005 2:08 AM
I take it Cerulean Studios meets #2 and #3 criteria. I'm curious as to why they seem to be disinterested.
Okay, so Kona beat me to the punch, and with the same idea!
Reply #3 Friday, June 17, 2005 2:29 AM
Sorry, I'll go now.
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Reply #6 Friday, June 17, 2005 6:31 PM
Boy, do I feel insignificant!
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Reply #11 Saturday, June 18, 2005 5:31 PM
| Firefox's site must have a link to WC that I haven't seen and I see the Firefox section has been appropiately seeded. |
Completely agree with that. There is what, 10 themes in the Fx catagory since it was opened 6 months ago? Whose bone head idea was it anyways for a Fx section? That is best left for Mozilla where those themes are updated regulary and can be gotten from the update system.
We need a section for IM programs like Trill and Miranda. Those programs are in need of some great skins, just look thru the DA galleries and see the lack of quality skins there lately.
Reply #12 Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:49 PM
Reply #13 Saturday, June 18, 2005 9:51 PM
| To be fair AT1981 , there's no evidence to support a a Trillian section being successful . |
Yes there is. Lots of prople ALWAYS speak up about adding a Trillian section when asked about what section should be added next.
Reply #14 Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:23 PM
| To be fair AT1981 , there's no evidence to support a a Trillian section being successful |
There was a thread about 2 or 3 months back that asked about adding an IM section and over 200 responses were for it. I believe that generally is a positive sign that there is evidence.
Everytime a new section is announced, everyone always asks where is the trilly/IM section:
https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=153&AID=59987
https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=153&AID=38700#201805
Reply #15 Saturday, June 18, 2005 11:15 PM
Us asking for a Trillian section will not make a Trillian section successful. Skinners making and uploading skins like mad dogs will make it successful. It would suck if by some magic Brad decides to add a Trillian section and it only gets a dozen submissions.
Reply #16 Sunday, June 19, 2005 2:30 PM
There's a firefox section becase we had a poll asking people what section they wanted most and Firefox easily beat Trillian and you saw that it tanked. Which is why it's not displayed by default.
You can't really get a section going these days without the authors of the program helping too.
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Reply #19 Sunday, June 19, 2005 8:11 PM
| Yes. And Firefox has what .. a couple million downloads. How many skins do we have for it . 10? |
And when you combine the IM programs that are skinable (MSN/Y!/Trillian/Miranda/Gaim) then you have what a couple of hundred million users. Of those I am betting 1-2% skin them, so that is 1-2 million people. Easily beats Firefox right now. I am also willing to bet that the IM section would take off and be popular. But we would never know unless we try.
| There's a firefox section becase we had a poll asking people what section they wanted most and Firefox easily beat Trillian and you saw that it tanked. Which is why it's not displayed by default. |
There was also a thread a couple of months back polling about opening up an IM section and the overall response was yes, do it. I believe that there is a big enough demand for it.
Reply #20 Friday, June 24, 2005 9:29 PM
Just add a Windowblinds -> Trillian skin converter to SkinStudio, that's good enough (I believe that was even in some announcement eons ago, but got dropped for some inexplicable reason?)
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Reply #1 Friday, June 17, 2005 2:07 AM