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To be fair Boards is a way bigger site than AAM. How many posts are there per day on AAM? Also AAM is full of mature adults that don't need to be minded.

A user posted a screenshot of Vanilla's pricing for the pro package a page or two back which I'm assuming is the one this place is on and it was, if paid for 3 years upfront about £7k which includes a 25% discount for paying upfront. That was with Webhosting UK.

My guess is servicing debt, wages, services all come into the 100k/pa target and hosting is the cheapest of all that but without being able to pay for the other non-hosting costs well…Also I'm sure the one employee is employed for more than just boards (not being nosy)

I guess the multitude of boards.ie customisations (some of which was to improve navigation, nevermind looks) sent over for implementation by Vanilla cost extra? And the continuous battle trying to make them work everytime there was a Vanilla update?

I hope we get detail of what the plan is this week - warts and all, as stark as possible.

Everyone here is only concerned with the forums, it's survival or death and what happens with the archive in the event of the worst happening.

The 2000 subs goal appears a stretch but that's what businesses do I guess, aim high!

The 2000 subs goal appears a stretch but that's what businesses do I guess, aim high!

2k subs is fantasy, they're at < 300 after the enthusiastic users have signed up, it'll only slow down from here.

Hopefully the fact that many have chosen the annual and 6 month subs will give them a fighting fund to try and find a cheaper option for survival.

I don't particularly care how someone thinks a site like boards.ie could be bootstrapped for a pittance.

Its worth €50 to me per annum and I'm happy to pay it. If its worth less to you, I am 100% okay if you have made a grown up decision to not pay anything. Good luck to you and all who think the same way.

My only hope is that boards.ie have enough paid members that it continues to exist. If it throws off enough to keep a staff of two going, and makes a few quid for it's investors, I say fair play.

Nothing wrong with genuine questions.

I just find posts about Boards being run on 4 euro per month hosting or people not subbing because they had a fallout with a mod 5 years ago a bit counter productive.

Whilst they haven't given us exact figures, the reason the site is in trouble now and not last year is changes to Google's algorithm and the knock on effect on advertising revenue.

Did you use the same email address as your boards.ie account? If not DM @Boards.ie: Mike and he will probably resolve it for you tomorrow! Your receipt will be issued to the email you subbed with. And come from STRIPE payment service.

@The Rooster "Obviously everybody who posts here has the site bookmarked or just types in boards.ie, rather than googling. It would be pretty extraordinary if the loss of advertising revenue due to the change in google search moved annual finances from that level of profits to tens of thousands of losses (even 100k was mentioned it seems)."

Your forgetting for non accounts keywords target traffic. But saying that results are poor for awhile from google even when requesting searches with 'site:www.boards.ie' And changes to number of posts per page during the year had it linking to wrong pages for links. So google weren't regularly updating the index of the site (recrawling it)!

Note:- Only 46 new paid subs in the last 24 hours, ~ holiday season?