Appeal to Support EN World!

[Mark]

Where do we check how much time is left on our accounts?

 

[Jack99]

Where do we check how much time is left on our accounts?

My Account (upper left corner) then go all the way to the bottom in the left column and look for *paid subscriptions*. Click that and it should say so in the box called *active subscriptions*.

 

[El Mahdi]

Just a couple of quick questions and an idea:

For those who already have CS accounts (whether 12 months or more) will they automatically renew or when the account expires will we have to do a new 1 month subscription? If it won't auto renew, is there a way to set this up for existing CS accounts?


A good incentive for CS acount purchases could maybe be increased rep power, or the ability to give out XP to more people per day. Also, how about a one time XP award for new CS accounts?

 

[Morrus]

Just a couple of quick questions and an idea:

For those who already have CS accounts (whether 12 months or more) will they automatically renew or when the account expires will we have to do a new 1 month subscription? If it won't auto renew, is there a way to set this up for existing CS accounts?

No. Yikes, imagine what people would say if I took money from people without their permission!

No, it's not technically (or, in fact, legally) possible without express permission to renew at the time of subscription.

Best I can do is put that status thing in the top right as a reminder. I can fancy it up and make it more blatant, maybe.

A good incentive for CS acount purchases could maybe be increased rep power, or the ability to give out XP to more people per day. Also, how about a one time XP award for new CS accounts?

An interesting idea. That hadn't even occured to me. Good thinking, Batman!

 

[El Mahdi]

...Best I can do is put that status thing in the top right as a reminder. I can fancy it up and make it more blatant, maybe.

I noticed that status thing right off so I think it's obviousl enough (at least for me). But hey, if you want to go fancy it up I won't complain.

I guess I'll just have to keep an eye on my status. I don't want to lose my cool little user title (well, cool to me anyways).

An interesting idea. That hadn't even occured to me. Good thinking, Batman!

Thanks, and you're welcome.

 

[Jack7]

I think in the future I'm also gonna buy all my .pdf's from here. I don't think I've ever got a .pdf from somewhere else that I probably couldn't have gotten from here. Maybe one or two form particular game companies. Maybe not, haven't researched it. Course, I didn't know about this place all that long ago either.

Maybe after I get back from assignment I'll try and help out other ways as well.

 

[Oryan77]

I don't mean to sound ignorant, but how much does it cost on average to run a forum site with thousands of users? I never would have thought it would require $3000 a month for a website to comfortably operate. It costs $36,000 a year to pay for a server and bandwidth for a website the size of this? Wow.

Do people hire programmers to maintain the sites? I just assumed the webmaster did it, or had friends volunteer to maintain it.

 

[Morrus]

I don't mean to sound ignorant, but how much does it cost on average to run a forum site with thousands of users?

I have no idea. The only statistic relevant to me is how much this site costs. I'm sure it varies massively.

I never would have thought it would require $3000 a month for a website to comfortably operate. It costs $36,000 a year to pay for a server and bandwidth for a website the size of this? Wow.

You missed some important points in this thread. I've been doing this for free for ten years. I get married next year; I have responsibliities. Given that it's pretty much full-time, if it doesn't pay my half of the marriage, it goes. It's OK if I go hungry; it's not OK if that means my future wife goes hungry, too.

Do people hire programmers to maintain the sites?

Of course. I've hired all sorts of people over the years.

I just assumed the webmaster did it, or had friends volunteer to maintain it.

We've been using volunteers until now. That's not fair on the volunteers.

Better that we pay a real tech admin who is accountable for site performance.

I can't spend another ten years depserately pleading with people who can only spare an hour two weeks on Thursday to fix a problem which crops up!

Essentially, the server and bandwidth costs are not important; it's the thousands of dollars in people costs which matters.

 

[samursus]

First time Community supporter here.... great idea with the $3/month!

Good luck with the fundraising... great forum site.

 

[Quantarum]

I consider $3 a month a huge bargain.

-Q.