I've always wondered how AAM is funded? Can you enlighten us Brendan? It is a great service, and although it is text-based there still must be costs for servers, domain names etc. Thanks for all your hard work.On askaboutmoney, we have never prioritised growth as we don't look for ad revenue. So we are free to close down discussions or ban subjects completely without being worried about losing traffic.
And ironically that was done to save costs. Had they pushed the "we need subs to survive model" with the larger user base on the old platform, which was overall a better experience for users, they likely would have gotten the funds they needed.They never really recovered from the site going down for a week or so when they were switching to Vanilla.
I've always wondered how AAM is funded?
That's very generous of you. Thanks Brendan.I pay for it myself and am happy to do so.
Is that cost user dependent, as in, rated against how many users AAM has at the moment?Hosting £1308 = €1500
Date | Registered | Unregistered | Total |
---|---|---|---|
01/09/2024 - 01/10/2024 | 19,630 | 673,393 | 693,023 |
Yes I found that surprising. I wonder if some of that is AI scraping \ bot activity.For every registered active recipient , there were 30 unregistered!
How would the total of 700,000 translate into page views? Presumably most registered active recipients view multiple pages?
If boards.ie closes and they migrate en masse to Askaboutmoney, we might have to upgrade.
When the boards.ie people frequented AAM many moons ago it required a lot more moderating. Lots more text speak, expletives etc.
I don't remember that?
Has Askaboutmoney been responsible for any matchmaking in its time I wonder? I guess it might explain the preponderance of separation and divorce threads lately?they appeared to have a social club side of things where many couples had met.
But why would you describe them as boards.ie people?
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