!! We've built a New Forum at writingforum.org (no S) !!

We are good! The forum has been sufficiently costed and budgeted. Roughly 60% for the general upkeep--server fees, domain registration, email server, LLC fillings--and the other 40% discretionary to be allocated later. There are some initial startup fees that I'm prorating for three months. After that, those depreciate and come off the books so there will be more available for other stuff. I'm deliberately keeping the fuel line choked to see where we're at.

I think the big thing for me will be the flow of new members. If we're getting a reasonably steady stream, that's one course of action. If not, different course. You have to be very careful with expansion. I've seen way too many real life ventures go tits up by overreacting to initial success.

I probably want to get to a place where the forum can pay for itself. Whether that's through ad revenue or other avenues. Theoretically we can have some kind of subscription status or premium content, but I wouldn't even consider that until we have some content to sell. Fair product for a fair price. Nowhere near even thinking about that. There is a lot of personal tax liability for me once you cross over into that world, which is fine, but it would require a rock solid business model for that.

I appreciate everyone's offer for help. You guys are great.

 

I think what I'll do is post a new announcement later tonight when I'm home and settled. I'll call it Moving Day or something and will put any pertinent details in there. We can then use that thread for any technical issues that arise as we file in and out of the lifeboats. Like if somebody is having problems joining, or problems seeing the URL or whatever. The old forum should have active comms for awhile. I'll keep this one open for general information, but that one can streamline the inevitable migration problems.

 

Nice and congrats!

It will be an international forum holiday for us going forward. Independence Day!

 

Debate room and erotica forum open for a day, unlimited dupe accounts and mod powers for the day, nudity allowed in profile pictures... even the spammers get free beer!

 

Spamalope ranch. All those compound names you see in the Recently Visited list have Russian IP addresses and would normally have been guillotined by now. There's like 40 of them. Soon to be 400.

 

It would not surprise me one bit if he did. Referencing my previous post, if Moose shuts the spam filter off (don't know if he has access), it'll be like the White Walkers on Winterfell.

 

Maybe for Rath in Australia. I still can't wrap my head around that. You take axial tilt for granted until it's 100 degrees on Christmas.

 

to be honest even if daniel pays the server fee in may, its going to die in june or july or whatever

 

I'm an engineer, bro. I build organizations and machines. You take the talent, you take the product, you take the artists that don't have the know-how to realize their dreams... build them a machine to do their thing, and then get out of the way. Do the paperwork, answer the phone, negotiate the contracts, schedule the meetings and the agendas... that's it.

 

Conductor of symphonies and herder of kittens!

 

It will rapidly become a great place to buy bitcon (sic), engage with attractive women in your area, and read AI generated pap.