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much disappointed !
Authored by: Safar on Sep 10, '04 08:55:56AM

i never made a volountary subscription, but i proposed a few hints...
I am much disappointed by this move.
If you had really in mind to make this place better, you could have recruited a few system administrators, with all these competent people out there, it would have been very easy.

Plus, there are ads and ads (dunno if this is english...). An ad in a corner called "please click here to go to the applestore online, it will help us support the site" is not the same as this ugly banner from a company that should die

sad story



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much disappointed !
Authored by: JacUnivac on Sep 10, '04 10:02:05AM

AMF Safar



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much disappointed !
Authored by: robg on Sep 10, '04 10:15:27AM

I'm sorry you're disappointed, though I knew some would be.

Recruiting a few admins really wouldn't help much -- it's not the workload of updating the daily hints that takes the time, it's the stuff I'd like to do to make the site better. And if I tried to do that with recruited admins, while working a full time job, the situation wouldn't improve one bit. It's just as tough to manage a team while working full time as it is to run the site myself with a full time job.

The only answer was working less at my "real" job, and for that, I needed a semi-reliable revenue source to make up for my income change. Hence the ads, which are the least disruptive solution, in terms of changing how the site works.

Only time will tell if the new features I'm planning on adding are worth it to all of you, but I hope they are :).

regards;
-rob.



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much disappointed !
Authored by: smorr on Sep 10, '04 08:35:01PM
Rob, do what ever is necessary to keep this site yours and allows you to pursue this as a means to support yourself and family. I much rather see this site remain in your hands with a few ads than the alternatives -- having the site die because it sucks you dry, or selling off the site to some third party that eventually kills it or turns it into some corporate mouthpiece (aka maccentral and macnn).

in anycase, KUDOS to you for making this endeavour your work... It takes a lot of courage to set aside a guaranteed source of income on the side to pursue something that you take enjoyment from and is a great asset to the community.

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Authored by: Blah on Sep 11, '04 05:07:40PM
And if I tried to do that with recruited admins, while working a full time job, the situation wouldn't improve one bit. It's just as tough to manage a team while working full time as it is to run the site myself with a full time job.
Spoken like a man who's seen it before! (?)

It's definitely true. Coordinating a project, especially with part-timers or less-experienced folks (good meaning as they may be) can often take more time and energy than just doing it yourself on the off-hours. And as Rob's seen (and I've experienced firsthand as well), that both takes a toll and doesn't let you get as far as you know you could if you only had more time to work.... it can be very frustrating.

So FWIW, I'll join the chorus of: by all means give this a shot and see how it goes. And good luck.

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