Subscribing

TeddyTedson

Hello.
I'll get right to it.

1. I was a subscriber.
2. I'm currently not a subscriber.
3. I can well afford the 50 quid or what ever it is personally for the year.
4. A lot of people can't.
5. I believe it to be a little over priced.
6. I don't feel it's worth the 50e.

Is there talk of this price going down?

It's a lot of money for more PM space and access to sex forums. I'm not exactly sure if the sex forum is to encourage meet ups or what but I don't see why it's limited to subscribers? Can't we talk about sex in other forums too, like AH for example?


If boards was perhaps 20e for the year you'd get an awful lot more people subscribing.

Why not try it and see

AlanS181824

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Hello.
I'll get right to it.

1. I was a subscriber.
2. I'm currently not a subscriber.
3. I can well afford the 50 quid or what ever it is personally for the year.
4. A lot of people can't.
5. I believe it to be a little over priced.
6. I don't feel it's worth the 50e.

Is there talk of this price going down?

It's a lot of money for more PM space and access to sex forums. I'm not exactly sure if the sex forum is to encourage meet ups or what but I don't see why it's limited to subscribers? Can't we talk about sex in other forums too, like AH for example?


If boards was perhaps 20e for the year you'd get an awful lot more people subscribing.

Why not try it and see

They won't reduce it, I highly doubt they will anyway.
Yeah €20 would be a great price, also if you subscribe you get access to change your name too I think.

Esoteric_

It's not a 50 euro per year charge to access the S+S forum and have more inbox space/personal avatar/tagline/username change.

It's a donation towards the running and maintenance costs that the site incurs, a way for regular users to pay towards the upkeep of a site they love.

All of the additional benefits are just a bonus or an incentive, but the fifty euro per year isn't a charge for these things.

Insect Overlord

TeddyTedson wrote: »

It's a lot of money for more PM space and access to sex forums. I'm not exactly sure if the sex forum is to encourage meet ups or what but I don't see why it's limited to subscribers? Can't we talk about sex in other forums too, like AH for example?

Did you even read the forum while you had access? I'm just asking because your question suggests a gross mis-representation of the S&S forum.

The reason it's limited to Subscribers is for age verification. Back in the day when people actually posted in S&S, credit card payment was assumed to be an option only available to posters aged 18 and over. It was a simple way of making sure everyone was old enough (if not necessarily mature enough! :P ) to discuss certain topics appropriately. I don't think it was ever considered a "perk" in the Subscriber package by anyone who did use it.

You're partly right though. The forum is pretty much redundant at this stage. A lot (not all) of what used to be talked about in there ONLY can now be discussed in tLL, tGC and AH.

TeddyTedson

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Did you even read the forum while you had access? I'm just asking because your question suggests a gross mis-representation of the S&S forum.

The reason it's limited to Subscribers is for age verification. Back in the day when people actually posted in S&S, credit card payment was assumed to be an option only available to posters aged 18 and over. It was a simple way of making sure everyone was old enough (if not necessarily mature enough! :P ) to discuss certain topics appropriately. I don't think it was ever considered a "perk" in the Subscriber package by anyone who did use it.

You're partly right though. The forum is pretty much redundant at this stage. A lot (not all) of what used to be talked about in there ONLY can now be discussed in tLL, tGC and AH.

And here was me looking for confirmation that it was a swingers forum.

Can you imagine being the mod of that forum! "I mod the sex....forum"

Eh anyway, I get it's to give something towards boards, but I really need the PM space. I deleted around 900 pms or something ridiculous recently and I'm still around my limit.
Couldn't this be upped now at this stage. Memory is so cheap nowadays.

TeddyTedson

Esoteric_ wrote: »

It's not a 50 euro per year charge to access the S+S forum and have more inbox space/personal avatar/tagline/username change.

It's a donation towards the running and maintenance costs that the site incurs, a way for regular users to pay towards the upkeep of a site they love.

All of the additional benefits are just a bonus or an incentive, but the fifty euro per year isn't a charge for these things.

BTW, Did you used to have a different username?
I've noticed you all of a sudden in AH.

hullaballoo

It's only €0.14c per day. I don't want to minimise things, but most people would accidentally drop more than that every day.

wnolan1992

I don't think it's overpriced tbh. Compared to the amount of time and enjoyment I get out of Boards, I think it's more than worth it.

However, I do think changing the price would make sense. Something along the lines of:

• Pay €50: Get all the current Subscriber benefits.
• Pay What You Want €10 < Amount > €50: Get some of the Subscriber benefits, possibly everything except disabling ads.
• Pay What You Want >€50: Don't know what other incentives they could offer (maybe an exclusive money coloured theme for the new skin? :P) but allow people who want to to contribute a little extra.

El Guapo!

As others said, I don't think it's too pricey.
One thing I will say though is, a while back Dav and others had said they planned to update subscriber benefits. They even started threads in here and in the "subscriber only" forums asking for suggestions.
But it hasn't changed yet and those threads were abandoned without any further feedback.
So I'm just wondering, have those plans been scrapped or are they still in the pipeline?
I'll keep subbing anyway but I think it'd be nice to have extra features for subs.

MugMugs

I don't sub for benefits. The no ads thing is handy. I sub because it's a way of giving back for using the site.

Micky Dolenz

There is a swingers forum. But it's invite only.

Spear

The minimum period of 1 month for €5 gets you the custom avatar and name change permanently though.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

It's really more about supporting the site, which is why I sub.
Also there is the FCL which puts S&S in the Halpenny place:eek:.
Cant say any more you'll have to sub to find out more:P

Beasty

Sir Humphrey Appleby wrote: »

Also there is the FCL which puts S&S in the Halpenny place:eek:.

Shush!!
Don't want the hoi polloi signing up and invading the place ....:)

28064212

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Hello.
I'll get right to it.

1. I was a subscriber.
2. I'm currently not a subscriber.
3. I can well afford the 5020 quid or what ever it is personally for the year.
4. A lot of people can't.
5. I believe it to be a little over priced.
6. I don't feel it's worth the 5020e.

Is there talk of this price going down?

It's a lot of money for more PM space and access to sex forums. I'm not exactly sure if the sex forum is to encourage meet ups or what but I don't see why it's limited to subscribers? Can't we talk about sex in other forums too, like AH for example?


If boards was perhaps 205e for the year you'd get an awful lot more people subscribing.

Why not try it and see

Will we see this post in 6 months time? You say you "need" the PM space, but aren't willing to pay €50 a year for it? Will someone who only "wants" the PM space be unwilling to pay €20?

Artful_Badger

Dont see the need to subscribe for anything other than the name change and avatar which you can do for a fiver whenever ya feel like. Anyone who subscribes more than that is just basically donating to the website or paying to be in with the clique in the first class lounge which is their own business.

Gummy Panda

did subscribers always have 4 red stars and 1 silver or is panda drunk?

wnolan1992

Gummy Panda wrote: »

did subscribers always have 4 red stars and 1 silver or is panda drunk?

They appear to have changed the stars. Everyone now has five stars and they "light up" according to the old rules.

MadsL

wnolan1992 wrote: »

They appear to have changed the stars. Everyone now has five stars and they "light up" according to the old rules.

Obligatory it's new and I don't like it comment.

Posy

MadsL wrote: »

Obligatory it's new and I don't like it comment.

It's new and I don't like it.
Looks like most users are missing a star. All 5 stars being there but not all being the same colour is actually hurting my OCD.

nesf

MadsL wrote: »

Obligatory it's new and I don't like it comment.

I'm patiently waiting for changes I like not merely tolerate.

Dav

Some back end work was done yesterday and it's affected the stars. Those new stars were done many moons ago (by Neil when he was still here) and for some reason didn't go live, but it was a "not broken, don't fix" issue so it was left alone. The work done on the web nodes over the last day or so have put them live now, so we're seeing them now. I know Rónán's looking at it now, but I'm not sure when he'll have a solution.

Myrddin

I kinda like them, plus it's a sneaky way to incentivise subscribing....moar stars!

28064212

Dav wrote: »

Some back end work was done yesterday and it's affected the stars. Those new stars were done many moons ago (by Neil when he was still here) and for some reason didn't go live, but it was a "not broken, don't fix" issue so it was left alone. The work done on the web nodes over the last day or so have put them live now, so we're seeing them now. I know Rónán's looking at it now, but I'm not sure when he'll have a solution.

If it's working, why is a solution needed?

Myrddin

28064212 wrote: »

If it's working, why is a solution needed?

I'm guessing the 'empty' stars arn't meant to show up?

Myrddin

OSI wrote: »

I like them, much better suit the new look of the site. Always felt the stars looked out of place since the move to the new skin.

Agreed.

A solution to stop people bitching over something that has literally no affect on how they use the site.

Agreed.

wnolan1992

EnterNow wrote: »

Agreed.



Agreed.

Pffft, you don't even have the new ones man. :cool:

Myrddin

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Pffft, you don't even have the new ones man. :cool:

Begun, the star wars have...

28064212

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Pffft, you don't even have the new ones man. :cool:

Psst, press ctrl+F5

wnolan1992

28064212 wrote: »

Psst, press ctrl+F5

****.

How the hell did that happen? Everyone but the Catmods had the new ones.

28064212

wnolan1992 wrote: »

****.

How the hell did that happen? Everyone but the Catmods had the new ones.

Browser caching issue. Ctrl+F5 forces all images, stylesheets etc to be freshly downloaded, rather than using the cached versions

petes

What is the reason you can't use another method to pay other than paypal?

Is there any other method?

Ken.

petes wrote: »

What is the reason you can't use another method to pay other than paypal?

Is there any other method?

I can't find it now but I recall one of the head guys saying on here before that credit/debit card payments attract a fee every time and the costs outweighed the benefits or something to that effect.

Banjo String

I thought stars increased to 4 when you subscribed?

That's how it used to work anyway.

Spear

SamHall wrote: »

I thought stars increased to 4 when you subscribed?

That's how it used to work anyway.

They do still, it's 4 red stars if you choose the sub group as your public membership group.