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Wow a very different experience! I will copy in our technical administrator! Hi @SimonW could you have a look at this? Thanks

 

There should only be a few adds per page for non subscribers , sometimes the this can go haywire though

Well look into it

 

I have just logged out and there must be an issue as there are way too many banners showing

I have asked simon to look into this when he gets a mo , just bare with us for now please

 

It hasn’t applied the upgrade yet. It might do it at midnight tonight but if it hasn’t I'll look into why it failed tomorrow

 

Payment has gone through ok

 

@SimonW will need to have a look

 

I'm looking into it. I don’t want to manually upgrade any of you yet while I try and locate what is going wrong (it’s working for some but not others)

 

Hopefully Simon will respond. Just an idea, but perhaps a Screenshot of what you are experiencing could help?

 

It makes a small profit over the monthly cost of running but hasn’t made back all the initial setup costs.

Ideally with any site you want enough profits so the setup costs are quickly covered and then a rainy day fund can start to be collected for both unexpected costs (such as hackers discovering a previously unknown exploit in the software and hit the site using it which would mean a big cleanup task to get the site back running smoothly and ensuring that exploit us patched) or expected ones (for example the software version we are on is approaching EOL so sometime in the next 12-18 months we will most likely need to upgrade which will be a big task)

Just for a bit of context, the people who cost us the least are those who have contributor status (that means they have been registered a month, have met the minimum lifetime post requirement and in the last 40 days has made a certain number of posts. We don't reveal the exact figures to prevent spam but once you have met the first 2 criteria you would be close to the last 40-days post requirement just by taking part in the prediction league, which is an added reason you should all be playing the prediction league, not only is it fun and gives you a chance of winning prizes but it contributes towards getting fewer ads so its win-win). They have the largest time spent on site per day figures but it's not by much but their posts drive traffic to the site which had a value to us.

The most expensive group are unregistered. They are the largest group of daily users and their time on site is only slightly less than the contributors so they as a group use up a massive amount of resources.

Then there are people like yourself, you are registered which is a bonus as you can contribute but these people are mainly lurkers. Time on site is in between contributor level users and unregistered but you are a smaller group than unregistered so only use a fraction of their resources (but more than contributor level). Ideally, we would like more of you in that group to reach contributor level, your time on site would be higher but your posts would offset that and even with fewer ads would probably actually generate more profit allowing the setup costs to be recovered quickly and let a rainy day fund to be built up. It's one of the reasons for the digest emails we have set up (although they weren't supposed to have started going out yet but did) as we are hoping to engage some of you more.

Oh and I missed premium members out, they are a bit of a mixed bag. It includes some of the users us the site who spend the longest on it per day but who don't necessarily post all that often, they probably use more resources than their sub fees but it also has some of the most active posters and some of the users who spend the least time on the site so it's a mixed bag with them

 

Rid the lot for a tenner per year or less than 3p per day ... or can do a quid a month

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