Appeal to Support EN World!

[Longtooth Studios]

I still owe you a set of boards! : )

Enworld has our support! This site is THE central hub of the online gaming comunity, and as such deserves the respect and support of any of us who have benifited from its popularity. Our banners will be going up here for a long time to come.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Something that occours to me - are you looking for any new moderators to help take up the load of running the forums, day-to-day?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Something that occours to me - are you looking for any new moderators to help take up the load of running the forums, day-to-day?

What occured to me - have you looked into sharing the responsibility with others? Maybe some people would want to step in and be more than just admin, mod or community supporter, willing to help out financially and organizationally/administratively.

I suppose if someone was strongly interested in this, he might have contacted you already, but who knows, maybe someone first needs to put out the idea.

 

[Quartz]

Perhaps a silly question, but have you broken down your costs and analysed them for savings? For instance, I'm sure bandwidth has to be a major cost, but have you analysed what exactly is eating up the bandwidth? For instance, do you pay for the bandwidth used by your sponsors' ads?

 

[PaulofCthulhu]

From experience, the Google Ads do not consume the site bandwidth allocation as they are served up from Google's own servers. (Though direct sponsor ads are.)

As for cost savings, I imagine the total monthly site bill is a minority part of the target total. Im sure that Morrus & co will have done whatever they can to minimise monthly site costs over the years.

From what's been described the plan is to generate enough revenue to make EN World a full time job. So the question becomes, more of "Do you want to support Morrus in making some kind of living out of EN World?". Whether the inference is then, "if not, adieu" only Morrus can say.

$3 a month is not a lot at all for everything that ENWorld offers and has offered over the past decade!

 

[Obryn]

Would it be possible for Community Supporters to have the ability to turn off the newly introduced ads that appear horizontally in between posts in threads?

Fewer ads was the major draw for me to get a CSA, and these in-line ads are far more intrusive than the header and sidebar ads I can disable - frankly I'd take those back if it meant I could disable the in-line ads.

He's working on it.

If you're able to, you can always use Firefox + Adblock Plus, though I'd recommend leaving ENWorld whitelisted in Adblock if you're not otherwise supporting the site. It's the courteous thing to do.

-O

 

[TheYeti1775]

He's working on it.

If you're able to, you can always use Firefox + Adblock Plus, though I'd recommend leaving ENWorld whitelisted in Adblock if you're not otherwise supporting the site. It's the courteous thing to do.

-O

The Adblock works great. Enworld the Community I would consider leaving it whitelisted, but now that it's gone business I'll treat it just like other sites when I'm at home using Firefox.
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Congrats on trying to make it a business.
I wish you luck on it.

Hate being the fly in the ointment, but as far as getting my $$ out of my wallet and sending it in, I don't see it happening.
I didn't get into the MMO's because of the MONTHLY fees, just like I don't get into the DDI for the same reason(that and I didn't make the 4e switch). Even the freebie downloads aren't going to draw me in for it. There are too many sites out there that one can go to for free. While yes this is one of the largest out there (and one of the better ones), it isn't a lock on the gamer niche by a longshot.
Most of the time I just lurk here anymore, the server lags have drove me other places to get my 'fix'.
The large ad block for the community support I just scroll past now. Was annoying the first few times it couldn't be closed. O well I deal with scrolling past, same with the inline ads when I'm at work.
The 138 current subscribers at $3/mo should be just enough for basic forum running for a large site to keep ya from being to far into the red. But your definitely going to need that full 1000+ if your thinking of making this a full-time thing and that won't include keeping an on-staff programmer for the site.

Again good luck.

 

[Morrus]

Just a quick note, guys. We've sold 4 CSAs in the last 3 days (and the necessary target is 10 per day). If you were planning on getting one but putting it off, I'd urge you to consider doing it as soon as you can!

 

[Morrus]

There are too many sites out there that one can go to for free.

Are you implying that you can't go to EN World for free?

Anyway, I wish you luck and happiness wherever you end up.

 

[RodneyThompson]

Signed up for mine, Russ. I'd been meaning to do the annual subscription, but always kept forgetting. Sorry to be so late to the party.