Following on from my other thread about Forum slowness, it was suggested that what do we expect when it's free?
That's just a red herring and smoke & mirrors
Sure Forum Templates cost money and Bandwidth is expensive, for Alun and the ABR gang
However if the Forum was upgraded to a reliable platform with commensurate bandwidth so all was tickety boo, I would subscribe and pay £10-£12 to support this forum, every year
How abiut the rest of you?
Yes or No?
ABR Forum - Pay As You Go?
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johnnyboxer
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ABR Forum - Pay As You Go?
We buy things we don't need
With money we don't have
To impress people we don't even like
With money we don't have
To impress people we don't even like
Re: ABR Forum - Pay As You Go?
I'd rather not pay to use it..but a model such as on the XT660.com forum might work where those who want to pay can.
If you make everybody oay then it will frighten the lurkers off. I know at least 20 people who come to this sight daily but are not memebers for various reasons.
So yes i wouild pay a few £ to support the site but as a voluntary thing only.
Mike
If you make everybody oay then it will frighten the lurkers off. I know at least 20 people who come to this sight daily but are not memebers for various reasons.
So yes i wouild pay a few £ to support the site but as a voluntary thing only.
Mike
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Re: ABR Forum - Pay As You Go?
If compulsory then yes i agreeutaka wrote:That will be the Death of the forum!
Mike
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I wouldn't pay tbh, there are plenty of good free forums around, I like this site and love the mag so hope it doesn't go paid.
The triumph sprint forum is a £20 subscription to access the whole site, I won't pay there either, I don't need the other stuff it offers, the oracle mothership is making some big money off these subscriptions.
The triumph sprint forum is a £20 subscription to access the whole site, I won't pay there either, I don't need the other stuff it offers, the oracle mothership is making some big money off these subscriptions.
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2003 KTM 950 adventure in silvery blue...
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Re: ABR Forum - Pay As You Go?
Interesting you mention Oracle...their licence and supoport costs are huge and i mean huge. People moan on here about getting faster tin or network bandwidth to make this site faster....all of this is not that expensive but the software support and licence costs are ongoing, never decrease, will go up, you can't do without it and a complete rip off IMHO...and i do this stuff for a living.special one wrote:I wouldn't pay tbh, there are plenty of good free forums around, I like this site and love the mag so hope it doesn't go paid.
The triumph sprint forum is a £20 subscription to access the whole site, I won't pay there either, I don't need the other stuff it offers, the oracle mothership is making some big money off these subscriptions.
Oracle have a mission to rip everybody off that they can.
Mike
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Re: ABR Forum - Pay As You Go?
Voluntarily naturallyutaka wrote:That will be the Death of the forum!
We buy things we don't need
With money we don't have
To impress people we don't even like
With money we don't have
To impress people we don't even like
Re: ABR Forum - Pay As You Go?
As much as I like this forum I wouldn't pay. But then I'm a tight fecker anyway. (thumbs)
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Re: ABR Forum - Pay As You Go?
I don't think paying is the answer,too many other free forums out there to choose from,i think having to pay would significantly reduce its popularity,i find most days its fine,but i agree that at times its takes a while to load a page and not being able to delete a post is a bit odd.
