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Specs of Salons Subscription System

Posted by chrisd on from the slashcode's-story-serving-cousins dept.

legLess writes "Scott Rosenburg, Salon's VP of operations, wrote an interesting article for Web Techniques about Salon's subscription system. It goes into a fair amount of technical detail (JavaBeans and JSP on Linux for login and authentication; Perl, HTML::Mason and MySQL (CD: and oracle) for content). He also talks about their subscription numbers, what drove them to do it, and their plans for the future (technical and operational). A little fluffy, but still a good read."

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  1. Alas... by O2n · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the article:
    In the end, of course, our subscription plan has worked because a small but significant portion of our users feel that Salon is worth supporting with their cash.

    Alas, this happens when you get older: you start paying for support, news and, alas, women. :)