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Old Mar 20th, 2010, 09:38 PM   #2
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Hey JJ,

we still check and clean-up the forum from spam every day. As you said, few other members are still visiting once in a while, but it is nice to see people remember of this place. A lot of communities survive to the lack of activity of a website, but these forums were built around the website, and from there we got all our traffic.

Anyhow, we have an update here for the community. About the content, we are still undecided about the direction we should be going. The internet has changed a lot, and we cannot afford anymore to work on the website full time as we did in the past. Back in 2001-2004, it took 4 people to run the website, and many people helping to keep things running; monthly costs were very high, and revenue from ads was very low and never enough to repay the expenses and the work (ironically, with the traffic we had in 2001-2004, we would be making thousands of dollars today, even by just using Google Ads and the eBay affiliate program, according to my direct experience with some of the websites we worked for).

The idea is of revamping the community, and then work on a content area that is more based on user contributions, even though some members will keep their editorial role.
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