8 months ago I prepaid an entire year subscription in order to skip the wait list for the Beeper beta testing group.

Today, I wrote the following to the development team:

I’ve been alpha/beta testing for decades and have enjoyed every moment starting with Gmail and Orkut.

I know that I have pre-paid for one year and I want your team to have my remaining subscription time as a donation.

I wish all of you the best and I’ll spread your service, by word of mouth, amongst everyone I know that may be interested in your product.

I, personally, do not have enough chat contacts to warrant my continued subscription.

Please, delete my account with Beeper and let me know when you have done so.

Thank you again for allowing me to test your brilliant software.

And I thought I wouldn’t hear anything from them and just be silently removed. But…

Eric Migicovsky wrote back:

Hi Chris, it’s Eric. Thanks for testing and working with us over the last few months! We’re sorry to see you go. Is there any chance we might be able to win you back as a user in the future? If so, it would be better for us to leave your account open, but disabled. It would be really hard to recover your account in future, and someone else might grab your username. As a thank you for your help, I would be happy to offer you free service on Beeper for life! I have already canceled your subscription so you will not be billed again, ever. - Eric

  • funnyletter
    7·
    1 year ago

    TIL Beeper exists. Now I am on the wait list, and kind of sad I can’t prepay for a year to skip the line.

    • Ozymati@lemmy.nz
      1·
      1 year ago

      I used to use Trillian back in the day - I occasionally miss the convenience. Chatting on mobile mitigates the multi-chat annoyence a little through notifications but it’s still irritating to try to remember where people are when I want to message them.

      I seem to recall the downfall of Trillian was data breach. Also of course shortfalls where on different platforms there was different niche functionality that didn’t carry across to Trillian.

      The tech landscape has changed a lot since then, Beeper looks like it’s got potential.

      • funnyletter
        1·
        1 year ago

        I used Trillian for ages, then got a mac and switched to Adium for a while. Then smartphones happened and everyone switched to text. Now most of my friends are on Facebook messenger, which I loathe but am sort of stuck with. Beeper would at least let me delete it from my phone…

        • Ozymati@lemmy.nz
          1·
          1 year ago

          I just find it mildly weird to use FB messenger because I remember MS messenger.

          • funnyletter
            1·
            1 year ago

            I don’t like Meta/Facebook and I’m eternally butthurt about the Facebook app chewing through my battery on my phone, back when I had it on my phone. Honestly I wish I could get them all to move to Signal but that’s a doomed enterprise.