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Post by Cynni on Dec 28, 2008 14:21:54 GMT 1
Hello everyone!
One of the not too handy things of not hosting your own board, is that you have to work with: 1) banners with advertisements 2) less space for attachments
There are two options to work with it. Lucky for us, there are many photo and video hosting services that provide you with a link to add in your post (photobucket and youtube). So it depends on what we will wish to add as attachments... I can host some "items", depending on their size and all. BUT then you first need to contact me, if I approve you need to send it to me, I will need to upload it and send you the working link back. IF we want more space and we do not mind to pay for this "luxory", you can donate money to this board which we can use for more space. What I've read, it is 2 dollars per month for every 20mb we wish to use. So what do you think?
About the advertisements: it costs 7 dollars each month for every 50.000 hits to keep this board advertisement free. So it depends on the number of members we get IF it would be useful for us.
What are your thoughts on it all? Would you be able to contribute each month?
Let me know!
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Post by singletunepoet on Dec 29, 2008 15:44:56 GMT 1
As for me, I don´t mind the advertisments at all. I don´t even notice them. I trained my brain to blank them out, I guess. And as for more space, I think that we should be ok the way it is now because with an own (free) photobucket account everyone is able to add pictures and such. I don´t know what the others will say but I´m fine with this board as it is. Nothing to worry about.
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Post by Gin on Dec 29, 2008 16:23:04 GMT 1
yeah the advertising doesnt bother me either. If it annoys people there are free add-ons you can get for firefox (and probably internet explorer as well) that can automatically block the adds when you view the page. It's easy enough for people to get a photobucket/youtube accont if they want to include pics/videos in there post so i cant see that being a problem either.
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Post by Cynni on Dec 29, 2008 16:39:01 GMT 1
*yay* for Youtube and Photobucket
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Post by yvonne80 on Dec 29, 2008 19:29:38 GMT 1
i really like photobucket, all my pictures from afew year is standing on there
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Post by eveliendorien on Jan 2, 2009 20:40:00 GMT 1
we don't really mind the ads either... we're just trained to look over them LOL.. If there are videos and stuff that you want to post, there are always such sites as "megaupload",... which offer a link or something you click on to further download the document
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Post by Cynni on Jan 2, 2009 22:18:59 GMT 1
Okidokie everyone
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Post by Steph on Jan 13, 2009 9:20:13 GMT 1
yep the advertising doesn't bother me either
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