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Re:Bacn is the New Spam by codewright on Thursday March 14, 2013 @06:55PM (#5378168)
Another blog, another false top-left-logo click that I thought would take me to the product.

If you can't pay attention to a detail like that, how can I expect the product itself to be any less frustrating?

Show us you're paying attention. I beg of you.

Re:Bacn is the New Spam by jaryd on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:01PM (#5378409)
I clicked the picture of bacon at the bottom of the article hoping to see a massively blown up photo of a pile of greasy bacon, and was actually redirected to the app!

I would be interested to see click-through data on that... :)

Re:Bacn is the New Spam by yourmailman on Thursday March 14, 2013 @11:31PM (#5379091)
I will try and get you that data :)
Re:Bacn is the New Spam by nmridul on Thursday March 14, 2013 @10:53PM (#5379002)
The top left logo clearly says "Glider Blog" -> If it had taken me to the product I would be disappointed.
Re:Bacn is the New Spam by yourmailman on Friday March 15, 2013 @10:31AM (#5380759)
The product can be accessed from the blog roll under Glider Home.
Re:Bacn is the New Spam by cwp on Thursday March 14, 2013 @07:39PM (#5378318)
Yes, they're absolutely right. Not having bacn in my INBOX is wonderful. But I have that already, using Gmail filters. Glider could automate it for me, which would be valuable. I don't think I'd value it at $9/month, though. Maybe I'm not in the target market for this.
Re:Bacn is the New Spam by wamatt on Thursday March 14, 2013 @07:42PM (#5378330)
Nice to see more competition in this space. I've found newsletter email filtering to be a godsend and it's changed how I deal with email.

I used to setup tons of filter rules manually, but now I just subscribe to anything of interest, and don't worry about the consequences.

Sanebox[1] allowed me to do this. It uses a ML algo over any Imap account (I'm using it on Gmail) so it's email client independent. It works incredibly well.

No affiliation with SB, just a happy customer and it's 1/4 the monthly price to boot.

[1] http://www.sanebox.com/

Re:Bacn is the New Spam by oakwhiz on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:44PM (#5378590)
Why do people write the word "spam" in all-caps? It's not an acronym...
Re:Bacn is the New Spam by yobfountain on Thursday March 14, 2013 @11:21PM (#5379070)
Perhaps it's because the name brand is spelled in all caps.
Re:Bacn is the New Spam by mintplant on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:53PM (#5378632)
Actually, it is. It stands for "Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages".

...At least, that's what I've always thought it to be, anyway. Now that I go back and check, I can't quite find a source for this claim.

Re:Bacn is the New Spam by monkeyspaw on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:40PM (#5378789)
My understanding is that it's derived from 1970s database programmers "spamming the database" with dummy data. The original term comes from Monty Python's Spamalot skit, I believe.
Re:Bacn is the New Spam by charleslmunger on Friday March 15, 2013 @04:20AM (#5379649)
Doesn't gmail's smart labels provide this functionality? I've LOVED having "Promotions" skip the inbox and land in their own label.
Re:Bacn is the New Spam by mikec3k on Friday March 15, 2013 @12:59PM (#5381553)
I find that Gmail's smart labels work very nicely for me.
Re:Bacn is the New Spam by tlogan on Thursday March 14, 2013 @07:29PM (#5378289)
I installed glider.io and, as of now, I'm not sure why it is better than simple Gmail labeling / filter. But on the other hand, it is better that "smart" outlook.com classification (which cannot even figure out where to put mails from [email protected]). So there might be something about this is the future.
Re:Bacn is the New Spam by pbreit on Thursday March 14, 2013 @11:34PM (#5379097)
Gonna have trouble acquiring users at $9/month.