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That's because they have no costs however they

• Have Ads
• Sell your data (Which is worth a lot. Companies will pay on average $69 for verified, real people's email addresses when its in a niche they target. Admitted they have like 20 members but even if we assume that 50% of the users here can't be 'verified' as real and legit Karl could easily make $50k per company if he was to be underhand and sell just your email addresses)
• You can only pay to give the forum Ad Free page views so you are paying for others to get ad-free (And someone paying $8 might get enough ad-free page views to last that forum about 20 years but with the page view amounts we get here someone would need to pay $80 every month to cover all page views so they didn't see ads themselves, that's nearly $1000 a year as opposed to each of you being able to get a year of ad-free for just £10)

And with all that guess what, the forum get's no real benefit from that to help improve the forum. Proboards are the ones making money from the cows are admins' work and the user's contributions.

Both them and the users would get much more value if they did self-host (with the size of their forum they could use free forum software and most likely use dirt cheap shared hosting as based on post frequency I doubt they are getting the traffic where sharing resources with other peoples sites is going to really be an issue) and then get the ad money for themselves and have ways for users to support the site