So is the site going to live another year? I thought Russ was killing it once the time was up on hosting?
I just chipped in a little too. How would you guys feel about doing a random prize giveaway to people who donate? Might add a little incentive and I've got a few miscellaneous Subaru-related items sitting around that I wouldn't mind putting up for grabs.
Before this gets too outta hand, will the donations actually be put towards keeping the site alive? I haven't seen anybody confirm or deny the future officially yet.
Valid concern. There's always a chance Josh might be saving up for something that costs the same amount as the current goal...
Sorry I haven't address this lately. The plan WAS to shut it down sometime after the 1st of the year. There are a few backside things that would need to happen before anything gets turned off. Now with these donations (Thank you very much), this will definitely help keep the site up and running. As long as we have some donations and traffic to help with the ad revenue, the site will continue to run. Last year our traffic was so slow that we were lucky to generate $25-30 a month in google ad money. After $40 a month for hosting and such, what little savings we had left starts to disappear. Then come the end of the year and I have to pay taxes on the the ad money (Google just sends out a standard 1099). Typically none of this has been a issue, but the past 2 years or so have slowed everything down to the point of much less active users, which in turn lowers the ad revenue because of less page views which lead to cheaper ads (less money per click and less per 1000 views). So with today's donations, and our little bit of ad money, we should be able to cover expenses for the rest of the year. I will try and get another thread with a bit of a state of the union and layout costs and such and what we need to do to continue to keep the doors open. Thanks again. Russ
Added my monetary donation to keep the website Rollin! Currently at 46% of the goal. C'mon folks, anyone that likes this site, I ask you donate whatever amount of money you can afford. Any amount helps!
Put readymix on a retainer to stop by occasionally and drop some of his comedic gold and maybe that will stimulate some traffic. Does anyone know if he is on Twitter? I miss that magnificent bastard.
He has a discord channel that he is active in. I joined it a while back and get a good laugh at the stuff they post.
I will definitely be donating a little something as soon as I figure out how to. Not sure what I would do without this site. If I set up a bunch of zombie computers to open up and refresh pages will that help with ad revenue? Lol
@pillboy I'm still around, but I just don't have a lot of time for forum business these days with my work. And yes, we do have a t3hw00t Discord. To get to it, just go on t3hw00t.com's main page, it's literally the only link there right now. I don't mind coming in from time to time to sling some prose, I suppose.
