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nzzp

Any chance of being able to pay to remove the ads? They ones on the phone irritate me immensely.

If I can't access the Fern, I actually have to do some work, or interact with friends and family. That aggression will not stand.

Duluth

Maybe

We can hide ads for members of a group. You get added to a group if you pay something?

dogmeat

@Duluth Isn't there a precedent for that?

Duluth

@dogmeat

Yes we did it before

Nepia

I thought we had that still ... I guess my ad block is efficient.

Duluth

The google stuff its getting annoying. Both how invasive the ads recently became and how much time it takes to cleanup posts to remove a flag

What are our options?

A small patreon for people who want to help with costs? Maybe that removes ads for everyone?

nzzp

@Nepia said in Pay to not see ads:

I thought we had that still ... I guess my ad block is efficient.

@Nepia said in Pay to not see ads:

I thought we had that still ... I guess my ad block is efficient.

I only see them on my phone ... android what do people use?

Kirwan

Yeah, we had it in the old software. With the changes Duluth has been making we have more options again on how to handle that.

To be honest, I'd like some ideas from people because the google ad reviews are getting painful.

We could chuck up a Patreon and people that donate/subscribe there can be added to a group that no longer sees adds?

As we have low costs, it wouldn't take much to cover those entirely and just remove the ads altogether. And if we go over we can put that into better hardware/memory to improve performance or add features.

What are people's thoughts?

nzzp

@Kirwan said in Pay to not see ads:

What are people's thoughts?

How much are we talking a month? Like $50-$100?

nzzp

@Kirwan could raise some serious coin if you auctioned off week long bans on TradeMe ... get the economists going on how to maximise revenue

Duluth

@nzzp said in Pay to not see ads:

How much are we talking a month? Like $50-$100?

Total costs are really small.. a few hundred a year

If we got $50 a month in total that would cover everything

So fuckall really

mariner4life

I'm definitely willing to pay if it means we slide out from under the current regime. It's bad for all involved.

How many regular users to we have? 20? 30?

JC

@Kirwan said in Pay to not see ads:

Yeah, we had it in the old software. With the changes Duluth has been making we have more options again on how to handle that.

To be honest, I'd like some ideas from people because the google ad reviews are getting painful.

We could chuck up a Patreon and people that donate/subscribe there can be added to a group that no longer sees adds?

As we have low costs, it wouldn't take much to cover those entirely and just remove the ads altogether. And if we go over we can put that into better hardware/memory to improve performance or add features.

What are people's thoughts?

My thoughts are:

I'm in, where do I send the pingers?
If I pay extra can you give @jegga a really disappointing avatar and remove his ability to edit it. Or maybe change his username to GFYs

But seriously, it's a great idea. And we should also have t shirts again.

Duluth

@mariner4life

Heavy daily posters? There's a few more than that

Regulars is more like 200

Readers vs posters is huge. That gap continues to grow (because of phone vs pc I think)

mariner4life

@Duluth said in Pay to not see ads:

@mariner4life

Heavy daily posters? There's a few more than that

Regulars is more like 200

Readers vs posters is huge. That gap continues to grow (because of phone vs pc I think)

$10 each a year.

Name and shame the non-contributers.

jegga

@JC said in Pay to not see ads:

@Kirwan said in Pay to not see ads:

Yeah, we had it in the old software. With the changes Duluth has been making we have more options again on how to handle that.

To be honest, I'd like some ideas from people because the google ad reviews are getting painful.

We could chuck up a Patreon and people that donate/subscribe there can be added to a group that no longer sees adds?

As we have low costs, it wouldn't take much to cover those entirely and just remove the ads altogether. And if we go over we can put that into better hardware/memory to improve performance or add features.

What are people's thoughts?

My thoughts are:

I'm in, where do I send the pingers?

If I pay extra can you give @jegga a really disappointing avatar and remove his ability to edit it. Or maybe change his username to GFYs

But seriously, it's a great idea. And we should also have t shirts again.

My thoughts.
1 GFYs
2 that’s it

Magpie_in_aus

I'm in for patereon or sending a few via PayPal. Or we all just pool the money and put a multi on every week for $50 and if you lose you are out. Cream will rise to the top turn $500 into $5000 and 10 years of hosting etc.

mariner4life

@Magpie_in_aus said in Pay to not see ads:

I'm in for patereon or sending a few via PayPal. Or we all just pool the money and put a multi on every week for $50 and if you lose you are out. Cream will rise to the top turn $500 into $5000 and 10 years of hosting etc.

bags not picking horses until my current form turns around, or we are all going broke...

Magpie_in_aus

Also if you multi contribution is wrong you have a shit avatar of a team you hate and have to login and post daily about your favorite player in that team and a fun fact about them

mariner4life

@Magpie_in_aus said in Pay to not see ads:

Also if you multi contribution is wrong you have a shit avatar of a team you hate and have to login and post daily about your favorite player in that team and a fun fact about them

it gets worse!

The Silver Fern

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