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Post by snowman872 on Nov 13, 2018 22:58:45 GMT
I had my fill of the shenanigans at Steve-O's forum. People deserve something better than daily bullshit at that site, especially by the Host and Goobs. So, true to my word, today I created a new and hopefully cooler Music forum! Please visit, kick the tires and sign up. I promise it will be a better experience! www.thriftycds.com/community/Snowman You need donations of about ten grand a year to run that thing, right?
Well, despite how annoying and rude that forum is, it managed to grow to 19 million posts and usually has well over 100-200 members plus a ton of unregistered guests and robots viewing it at all times. That requires a very robust server to handle that traffic and a lot of bandwidth as well. I'm guestimating that would be about $500-600 a month for hosting fees and perhaps higher. That's the biggest expense but there are others depending on how cheap and professional he manages it. In his case, he likely writes this all off as a tax expense although that may be questionable in the eyes of the IRS IMHO.
Forums usually take a long time get to that point (if ever). Start up and small forums are much less expensive to run. Truthfully, I don't think I would ever want my own forums to grow that large unless it really did earn solid, consistent revenue and that doesn't mean relying on donations.
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Post by Holly Diver on Oct 18, 2019 23:57:38 GMT
Any Pwog Mastermen on board yet? He is recently back as Deacon Beaker and he's coming on strong. The guy is a straight up lunatic. PWOG MASTERMEN!!!
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Post by Brick Wall on Oct 19, 2019 1:58:50 GMT
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Post by mintyjackhole on Oct 19, 2019 4:10:31 GMT
One more post about him and you all are gonna Beetlejuice him back here.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Nov 12, 2019 10:36:36 GMT
Serious reply would you mind hosting this forum there? Because this forum software fucking sucks and Proboards could shut it down at anytime if people reported what was being poated here. I don't think the formats are transferrable, and a lot of good stuff here would be lost if we transferred. Anyway Snowman is going for something else. Not sure what it is, a more sane version of Shiteville maybe. Who knows.
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