Post by MungO on Jul 12, 2021 18:00:01 GMT
The board has grown in popularity and it comes at a cost.
At the start of the year i put out a call for people to help with the costs by click the link below and pay some money to proboards so we don't have the adverts on the forum.
People responded well and we had enough 'ad-free' purchases to last us for the year. It is now July and we've used them up. Yes that is how much this board has grown.
So i'm asking you people, the forum members to vote on the next course of action.
To be totally ad-free for the month we need to purchase 250,000 ad-free pageviews. That'd cost $25 per month, $300 for the year.
We have options:
Restrict advert-free to members only - Could do this so that visitors get adverts and only members get ad-free. I like this idea but feel it might limit growth and any potential lurkers from elsewhere and other teams from registering.
Carry on as we are with advert-free for everyone - And every so often i put out a call for people to top-up the ad-free and hope we get enough to last us for a while.
Carry on as we are but cap membership - When we get to 1,000 members we cap it and go advert-free for members
Keep on with just my funding - I'm happy to fund the forum to the tune of about 150,000 pageviews per month for about $15 per month. And then we suffer adverts for the rest of the month
Other - Let me know your suggestions
At the start of the year i put out a call for people to help with the costs by click the link below and pay some money to proboards so we don't have the adverts on the forum.
People responded well and we had enough 'ad-free' purchases to last us for the year. It is now July and we've used them up. Yes that is how much this board has grown.
So i'm asking you people, the forum members to vote on the next course of action.
To be totally ad-free for the month we need to purchase 250,000 ad-free pageviews. That'd cost $25 per month, $300 for the year.
We have options:
Restrict advert-free to members only - Could do this so that visitors get adverts and only members get ad-free. I like this idea but feel it might limit growth and any potential lurkers from elsewhere and other teams from registering.
Carry on as we are with advert-free for everyone - And every so often i put out a call for people to top-up the ad-free and hope we get enough to last us for a while.
Carry on as we are but cap membership - When we get to 1,000 members we cap it and go advert-free for members
Keep on with just my funding - I'm happy to fund the forum to the tune of about 150,000 pageviews per month for about $15 per month. And then we suffer adverts for the rest of the month
Other - Let me know your suggestions
