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Originally Posted by Socratic Monologue
It is cool that you gave it a try, Rich.
There seems to be two ways to finance a website like this one -- ads, or user subscriptions -- and you're offering users a choice between either one as they like. Hard to see how things could be better than that for us users.
There's another model on which there are no Google ads, and use is free for buyers but sellers pay a subscription fee from $22 to $125 per month. That's apparently a way to encourage commercial breeders and large scale flippers to dominate, which hopefully everyone agrees is not how the entire hobby should look.
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I never had any illusions nor even hopes that running this site would make me wealthy. I have always been content with just being modestly comfortable in life. Fortunately Connie has always felt the same way, so there has never been any pressure on me to be unduly money focused. All my life I seemed able to get by no matter how much (or how little) money I was making.
Heck, I tend to value the donations and such more as an expression of appreciation from the membership than anything else. So I suppose it is the feeling of not being appreciated that is much more discouraging than any bottom line figures. Actually, in the distant past, it was members who asked me about memberships and advertising and such. Hadn't even entered my mind when I first started playing around with these website thingies. I just liked playing around with this stuff. I do have a programming background, although those talents have terminally atrophied over the years.
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Originally Posted by Socratic Monologue
If you start a thread about axing the discussion sections, I'll try my best to make the case that they should stay.  |
Speaking of discouragement........
You would have a tough row to hoe making such a case. All anyone needs to do is to scan the discussion forums and note the date of the last post made within each of them. That pretty much tells the entire story, and presents my side of the case without the necessity of my having to say another word about it.