News: January Fundraising Drive

[psijaka]

Time for me to put my money where my mouth is!

[Baneblade]

Originally Posted by Hamma

In a twist of irony we may have found an advertiser that will work well for us.

I still think you should let outfits buy ad space.

[Hamma]

That would be cool.. but I think that would get complicated.

[Baneblade]

How would it be complicated? If you charged per click, it might be. But you could also just 'rent' out slots in a rotating ad reel or something.

[Twasta]

Send 15 $ your way

[Hamma]

Thanks guys!

We are at $1532 and $268 from goal!

[belch]

Did my part...thanks for the awesome site, forum and community!

[Hamma]

$218 left to go!

[Hamma]

So I've put up some ads as a test- probably run them about 24hrs and take them down to see what they look like stat wise. We've raised enough cash on hand to run the site as is for about 6 months or so roughly. Keep in mind.. run the site as is assuming costs don't change.

[Hamma]

Not impressed so far, slowing down page loads quite a bit in some cases.

[Rago]

Is the Add Banner new ? Never seen this before ?

Do you recieve something for Klicking it ?
I klicket it :P

Confirm that Side is slower

[Tatwi]

Originally Posted by Hamma

Not impressed so far, slowing down page loads quite a bit in some cases.

Waste of time, bandwidth, and goodwill for the end users who are on a device that does not have ad blocking. I ad block to save time and bandwidth, not because I fear that I will buy something if I see it. The banner ad thing in general seems like one giant scam to me and I feel bad for the companies who dump their money into them. Maybe I am the odd man out, but I have never purposely clicked one (I hate touchscreens, like this tablet...); I just don't care.

[Mox]

I hate these ads. Put it off again. The community will raise the money.

[Canaris]

not noticing a difference to be honest since you turned them on, high traffic days are the real killer around here

[Rago]

As long its only that small ad up there, it does not hurt, its not much and we have many users, the Ad also gave me a recall on No no Kuni, which i still want to play (hope a PC Version comes out...i would buy it !)