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Post by Tout-Perd on Oct 18, 2006 9:04:16 GMT -5
Okay, now this is time for me to question board members on something important.
Should I try to start a sort of board fund for people to send their moneys in, which in turn would pay for ad-free and file hosting (With me paying a certain ammount a month as well)? And on top of that, which is higher priority to you boarders? File hosting or ad-free?
For $84 dollars a year, we get ad-free, and for $24 dollars a year we get 20 MB of hosting space. Ideally, we'd take in enough to cover ad-free and doubled file hosting ($132), but with the financial states of board users, far more likely that instead, we would end up with roughly $30-$50 a year to spend on board-resources.
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Post by Baboon on Oct 18, 2006 11:48:27 GMT -5
Personally, I don't find the ads to be all that intrusive or annoying. It's no different than the rest of the internet, you just learn to ignore them. As for file hosting, what would it be used for, not to sound stupid? Would everyone be allotted a certain amount of space to put anything, or is it just so people wouldn't have to use Photobucket or whatever else for board purposes? At the moment, I don't quite think it would be worth it, but if you can elaborate a little on what it would buy us, that would help. Although, if the general concensus is that we want this, I'm willing to put a bit of money towards it.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Oct 18, 2006 11:54:31 GMT -5
Well, no ads does give us a bit faster of load time, and does feel more personal. I'd say it's second priority after file hosting, though, as that can be used to share stuff that is much harder to share normally. RPGmaker games, compositions, the radio play if it ever can get off the back burner, etc. As I said, I don't expect much in donations, and I won't beg. I want to honestly see if we think it's quite worth it yet.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Oct 18, 2006 12:14:48 GMT -5
I'm undecided. I do have my own means of communicating the MIDIs to you guys (by emailing them to you, Lee, and putting them up on the Midi Shrine for everyone), but I can see how "The Exodus" would be difficult. Do you have another website to which you can upload the RPG, Lee? I'm pretty sure there are RPGMaker communities for that sort of thing, but...
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Post by Tout-Perd on Oct 18, 2006 12:26:47 GMT -5
I suppose that I could find an RPGMaker community to host it, but it is a sort of private thing. But yeah, I guess that the radio play is the only thing requiring hosting.
This topic isn't immediate, anyways. The soonest that I can get the ad-free or hosting running is this March, so right now I just want to see everybody's opinions on it.
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Post by balbanes on Oct 18, 2006 15:02:36 GMT -5
well i actually have a proboard. Its absolutely free, no one complains about the ads here anyways...
And i will not give cash to anything. I can't afford it, and this place isn't worth a buck o five to me.
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Post by bulbaboy on Oct 18, 2006 15:39:23 GMT -5
You have to look at it this way. We see $134 and we’re like “Crap! I can’t pay all that, it’s too much.” But there are like 5 or 6 of us on here that have jobs. This is a yearly fee so lets look at it mathematically:
134 divided by 12 = 11.17 a month 11.17 divided by 5 or 6 = 2.25 or 1.90
That’s fewer than 3 dollars a month per person with a job. And if you decided to make it 3 dollars even per person then you would be looking at 15 to 18 a month and then 180 to 216 dollars a month giving you the chance to do even more stuff with the site. Since you don’t know how many people will do it and since 3 is just an awkward I would say 5 a month would be reasonable.
But this leads to a problem. We would have some people not paying yet reaping the benefits. But I have ideas on this as well. Give the people that pay benefits. You could find out who all would pay then we could have some type or meeting and discuss it. But I do believe that if there are going to be members that pay and members that don’t, that the people who do pay get added benefit/benefits. An incentive to pay and continue to pay.
I would be up for.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Oct 18, 2006 15:58:11 GMT -5
Archipelago Exodus goes premium!
...No.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Oct 18, 2006 16:22:55 GMT -5
Yeah, this ain't the Snitz or TCGPlayer. This isn't a money-making attempt, or money reaping at least. I just want the best possible boards. I would not hesitate to make it so that when EP is instated, EP will be given to donors according to money, but I certainly wouldn't make Premium style accounts.
EP is another thing to discuss. What kind of bonuses can I give for a useless board currency? Posts, Karma, extra skins, temporary forum openings on a trial basis, etc. Any suggestions?
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Post by balbanes on Oct 18, 2006 22:10:58 GMT -5
karma....? I WILL buy karma, but no the lasting life of this place....
How much to keep my karma above everyone else, like when anyone gets a plus, i'll get one, and when anyone gets a neg, i'll get two...pluses....
How about a pay a year off?
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Post by ch00beh on Oct 18, 2006 22:23:52 GMT -5
I'm not really bothered by ads, primarily because I have them blocked, but even without the filter, it's not too intrusive. And if you think those tiny little text blocks are slowing down load speed, look at all the pictures one has to load because people use tags for gigantic pics. Eventually I'm totally gonna write a greasemonkey script to un-img-tag all your big ass pictures... Hosting... I'm also not too excited about, since I'd be uploading stuff to my photobucket account anyway, since it hosts pictures, movies, and flashes, or I might upload the movies to youtube or something, since that has more space. And for everything else, I'll probably e-mail the file or something... After all, for free, I have 1GB for picture and flash storage with photobucket, 100MB large or 10min long videos with youtube, and 2GB with a 10MB size cap for everything else with Gmail... Also, I'm on this board for the RPing and the talking. In my own opinion, I don't need to pay to talk to people. So, I'm against a pay board.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Oct 18, 2006 22:43:28 GMT -5
So, as a whole, we're pretty much against taking up collections to support extras? Okay. The subject will be retired until relevant once more. (Like if I ever actually make a main site).
As for EP, though, I'm having trouble thinking of many more rewards I could dole out.
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Post by prime on Oct 18, 2006 22:56:36 GMT -5
Currently, I'm getting pay of about 4000 a month. After tax and anything I need to buy, then I'll check and see how much cash I've got. If its enough, I'll pay for ad-free and filesharing myself. But, like, as a christmas present, so we actually HAVE it for a year. Instead of a few months.
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Post by Diamond Princess on Oct 19, 2006 10:17:10 GMT -5
i think we should just stick with what we have, I mean everything is going alright so far. I don't have any problems with what we've got right now. I like what we have! It's free and it's all good in my opinion.
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Post by prime on Oct 19, 2006 11:56:08 GMT -5
No offence, but I find the ad's annoying, and the filesharing could be damn useful.
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Post by jenova on Oct 19, 2006 14:25:26 GMT -5
Once I get my job (following up on it tomorrow). I can set up a PayPal, and I can probably give AE's some monies )
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Post by ch00beh on Oct 19, 2006 19:08:24 GMT -5
With today's advances in browser technology, I really don't see ads as a reason to complain, since you can block an entire ad server with firefox and adblock. -_-
And we can easily e-mail any files to whoever wants them. I mean, it's not like there are a thousand active users.
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Post by prime on Oct 19, 2006 23:22:32 GMT -5
Exept for the 10 meg file size cap.
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Post by ch00beh on Oct 19, 2006 23:44:27 GMT -5
as opposed to 20MB total...
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Post by prime on Oct 20, 2006 20:56:55 GMT -5
40 doubled
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