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I just made a donation of $300. I hope it helps.  |
I guess so. What a benevolent person you are.
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Originally posted by Athens
I think it's all about being subtle in any approach to monetizing the forum. We'd love to give members an added boost with subscription based accounts, but we also don't want to depreciate the experience for regular members by giving too much to a special group. It's also not something that can be relied on long term, as a reduced interest in those special accounts would mean Joe has to go even further out of pocket to cover the extra costs.
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It's true that you'd be taking if a risk if the subscribers were to take a sudden, sharp decrease. That would leave an even bigger deficit to be filled.
If it were worthwhile I think you could get away with it. For someone leaving there would likely be someone joining and probably a small spike around holiday season that could cover a minor drought.
I agree with your concerns though.
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I can't remember off-hand, but if you can find a list of vbulliten 3.8.5 features, you'd be able to see what we didn't add.
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Clocking this.
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We're still looking into the costs of a new server, but to offset the costs for Joe would take about 50-60 people at $5 per month for a really good one. That's a hard # to reach, and even if we did, I doubt it would hold up long-term.
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I will donate begrudgingly but it is still a donation.
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All that said, we're going to continue a full evaluation of the forum and I'll most likely be covering some of the cost on my end.
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Needs to be done.
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That's the best option for Joe to take the leap into getting a new server. If we decide to implement additional things like subscription based accounts, it'll just be to ease things as much as possible.
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Correct.
........ or am i 
