Subscription levels dropping

[Morrus]

Before I click on a link I always check my status bar and if it reads something other than what I am expecting, I often skip clicking through. Maybe you could change that page name to benefits.php or subscriber_benefits.php or something more promising, even if the dual pupose is to include payments.

Pardon?

 

[Mark CMG]

Pardon?

The button says "subscribe" and the page (which people will see in the status bar) says "payments.php" and I am suggesting you change them to say "benefits" or something in that vein.

 

[Storminator]

I canceled a couple months back, purely for financial reasons. I dropped the DDI, the cable and changed my phone options as well. None of those is large, but I'm in a mode where I'm adding them all up.

Sorry things are tough, man.

PS

 

[Morrus]

The button says "subscribe" and the page (which people will see in the status bar) says "payments.php" and I am suggesting you change them to say "benefits" or something in that vein.

Oh, I see!

I don't think I can; it's a core vBulletin file and called from many other files. Changing its name would break lots of things, I think.

 

[Mark CMG]

Oh, I see!

I don't think I can; it's a core vBulletin file and called from many other files. Changing its name would break lots of things, I think.

Bummer there. Maybe Weem could adjust the button, though, I suppose. Might make it a touch more inviting.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I apologise for using red mod text - this isn't a mod post, but it is an important one.

I've started a poll in Meta about the structure of the forums. Because we've moved almost everything out of General, a common theme in this thread is that "because General is quiet, I assume EN World is quiet".

Given that traffic is UP, not down, this is clearly an optical illusion caused by the forums splits. There's craploads of traffic - we've just moved it out of General and split it into bite-sized chunks.

The poll in Meta is about recombining stuff into General, or keeping it split out into a number of manageable forums.

I don't promise to do what the poll says (I'll be discussing it with the mods as well), but I will definitely take it into account. You'll find it here:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/286346-recombining-forums.html

Hmmm, I seem to recall being one of the voices protesting when the Pathfinder content got spun off into its own area, so I suppose that I ought to visit the poll....

The Auld Grump

 

[Herobizkit]

I generally run my bank account at or near a zero-balance. When my automatic sub fee comes out, I have usually forgotten about it, and the bank charges me 20 bucks for a NSF, putting me in negative balance. Then, my PayPal gets tied up as it then has a negative balance which I normally pay... yep... through my bank, which dings me another 20 bucks NSF. I gave up trying to keep up with it as your sub fee costs me 43 bucks a month because I suck at finances.

 

[renau1g]

HB have you looked at overdraft protection? It'll help with those NSF fees, and generally costs only a few dollars a month. I got it when I bought the house, what with all those lovely automatic monthly withdrawals (esp. when car payment, daycare ($1700/month), and mortgage hit on the 1st of the month) and its worked out really well for me.

 

[Herobizkit]

@renau1g: I have, but due to past financial transgressions, my current bank won't allow me to have it and new banks require a certain time of proven transactions before they'll allow me to have it.