Free testing every weekend in February

By Paul Farnell
9 Feb 2009

Free testing every weekend in February

During the next three weekends (starting Saturday 14 February), all Litmus testing will be completely free for all our users!

This means anyone with a free Litmus account can run an unlimited number of full browser tests and full email tests across our entire range of browsers and email clients.

Since our recent expansion we have 85% spare capacity at weekends. We thought: Why not put that capacity to good use? Perhaps you have website for your side project you’d like to test, or an email newsletter for a community group. You’ll be able to use the full power of Litmus to test it thoroughly any weekend during the rest of February.

If you don’t already have a Litmus account you can sign up for free now so you’re ready for the weekend.

If you’re already a paying customer, you’ll be allocated dedicated resources to ensure your tests are completed as quickly as they’ve always been. (You’ll also continue to have access to our spam filter testing, which will remain exclusive to paying customers.)

Everyone else will be able to sample the full power of Litmus from midnight Friday through midnight Sunday (Eastern Standard Time) on the weekends of 14^th, 21^st and 28^th February.

We’d love to hear how you’re using the free weekend testing. Drop us a line or leave a comment here.

http://doesnotvalidate.com Dane Hesseldahl

Pure radness.
I am love with your service – seriously – I want to make out with it.
Thanks for all the free tests!
http://folio.ifky.com.au Geeves

Sweet deal you have going here..
If the monthly subscription price was $20 cheaper, you would be signing more people up instead of giving the service away free. With the Australian dollar the way it is, annually it would cost me $750. That’s pretty steep.
Otherwise, keep up the great work.
Dan

I am with Geeves, $20 cheaper would be a sweet deal. Only started today and the servive is taking forever, my first test is still going – started at around 9.00am Adelaide time, and it is now 4.42pm. I have no way of knowing whether this normal or not as it is not on your site (couldn’t find it in help). I wouldn’t normally be concerned about the timing, but I am just testing out the system on a 24hr pass!
http://greystate.dk Chriztian Steinmeier

This was super cool – I just used it once, but man I see myself upgrading the very minute a project calls for it.
Thanks for doing this!
http://netzlogger.de Ulf

I love your service but do also think that 49 $ per month is a little expensive for those people who only test one or two websites a month. Why don’t you create a plan especially for those low volume testers? Maybe for half the price (or even less) but limited to a decent number of tests. Because at the moment I’d rather install all recent browsers on my own systems and test by myself. With the help of several virtual machines and snapshots this isn’t that problematic anymore. But, nevertheless, litmus makes testing much more comfortable, if it weren’t that expensive…
Arnold Almeida

As a freelance developer, i cant really afford a full subscription but opening up your system on the weekends and after business hours is perfect for my needs.
Thanks!
amy man

Agree on the price. Probably most potential users are small web developers like myself. $20-30$ would be reasonable. $600 for a year buys me a dedicated Windows PC just for testing.
Also it appears to be incredibly slow.
Great idea, waiting for it to hit the performance/cost sweetspot.
http://www.arxus.com/ Greg Paulhus

I dunno, seems like the time for a service like this has come and gone. Can’t we all run Windows on our Macs now? For a much lower cost I can set up Windows on my shiny new iMac, boot into it and launch any number of web browsers on Windows, and do much more in depth testing.
http://luciddesign.co.nz Galen King

I was about to drop you a line to notify you that we can test for free even though our 24-hour pass has expired.
Free Mondays—that’s awesome. Thanks.
But, hey, honestly, I’d be happy to pay if it wasn’t so expensive for a team. We have 2–3 staff who need to use Litmus from time-to-time but US$199 per month is totally unaffordable for us.
Maybe you could do a pricing model that allows a certain number of sites tested per month or something like that so the big guys still pay nicely and the small guys can afford it.
Anyway, love your service. Keep up the great work.
Cheers,
Galen
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/greekgeek Ellen B.

Agreed! I haven’t tried Litmus since you started this free weekend thing — I use it a few times a year — and oh, it’s wonderful, but as a non-professional I don’t need the service often enough to justify that kind of $!
I’m a student. I make webpages that are the online equivalent of a lemonade stand. I like to make sure they display properly on other browsers, but I’m earning maybe forty bucks a month for ALL of them. That doesn’t even cover my broadband bill. I can’t justify spending buckets a month even if I *did* use Litmus more often.
But I’d be willing to pay $5 a month for access to the full set of tests on weekends only!

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