Thread: Please subscribe!

There are now 86 views in this thread, I just wonder how many viewers flicked the plastic card

Originally Posted by Bushie

My silver subscription is just about to expire, the two descriptions above are, not very descriptive. What are the benefits of silver v gold v standard other than supporting the site.

If you don't have to wait 60secs between searches it might well be worth it!

You know back in the old days things were put on the internet for the good of the community, you make a website about a hobby etc and shared the information hoping it would help someone one day.

These days it seems everything on the net has to make money, it needs ads to cover the costs, it's got to make money or it's not worthwhile. It makes you wonder when unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, unlimited domains hosting, unlimited MySQL(v.4/5) databases, unlimited PostgreSQL cost you all of $7 US a month just why is there a need for ads?

I have subscribed in the past and I have donated to this site, not because I'm under the illusion it's a huge expense to run just because it is run well and people should be rewarded in life for doing things well. Saying that I think all subscribers should see no ads, they give money to cover the running costs so they should have the choice to turn them off.

Originally Posted by Chucaro

There are now 86 views in this thread, I just wonder how many viewers flicked the plastic card

Only because my subby just expired.

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Last edited by Pedro_The_Swift; 23rd May 2010 at 10:02 AM.. Reason: Thanks Mick


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Where did my post go?

Originally Posted by inside

You know back in the old days things were put on the internet for the good of the community, you make a website about a hobby etc and shared the information hoping it would help someone one day.

These days it seems everything on the net has to make money, it needs ads to cover the costs, it's got to make money or it's not worthwhile. It makes you wonder when unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, unlimited domains hosting, unlimited MySQL(v.4/5) databases, unlimited PostgreSQL cost you all of $7 US a month just why is there a need for ads?

Don't be naive.

Do you think there's a heap of companies out there providing free services purely for the warm and fuzzy feeling they get from doing so?

Nothing is free.

All those so called "free" services you mention are actually funded by..... advertisers.

Thanks for the reminder... I always keep forgetting... so now I have subscribed

Thanks for the thread Chucaro.
Subscriptions are a good way to support AULRO.
There is another way.If anybody can donate legitimate items we can auction or raffle we can raise good money for AULRO.
An example over the last few weeks we held an auction.Tombie2 donated 2 flash tunes for the TD5 mojo.We auctioned them and raised $840 towards the running of AULRO.
If you can offer anything,contact any of the moderators via PM.
Thanks
Andrew