Sevron wrote:DWMagus wrote:Sevron wrote:Apparently noone is interested in the service I am offering through the popup on the site, which is useful but also could be considered a donation.
Unfortunately without your support I do not have any more time to implement the twitter post checker, sorry about that.
Wait, so the paltry amount of traffic from this site was the only thing keeping you going on this? Or it was the chance at getting money off a small subset of the forum users?
I'd hate to say it, but even if you got donations from the small number of people who visited your site, it wouldn't be more than a handful.
This kind of reeks to me as spam or taking advantage of the user base.
I am working on creating something useful that makes people's lives better.
It takes time, the server has costs, and I offered a service that takes more of my time, and would save more of the users' time, for five bucks.
Why on earth would you call this taking advantage of anyone?
Do you work for free in your dayjob?
The Return of the Josh Checker was/is your day job?
If this is your day job, then I sincerely apologize. Since most browsers come with pop ups disabled, I'm sure I'm not the only one who didn't realize you were trying to monetize off of this via pop-ups.
No, I don't work for free at my day job, but I also don't work for pay as a moderator. If this is your day job... I doubt the few people from this site going to the checker would be enough to even offset server costs, and I would think even fewer of those visitors would turn off their pop up blocker for a simple check script.
As a moderator, I think the tool is nifty for those that aren't on the site regularly, but I'll leave it to them to value what it's worth. Personally, if it was a choice to pay for this or just visit the site, I'd just visit the site--but then again, I'm always on the site so that opinion is completely invalid.
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