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What's frightened you
gogo
I didn't mean cringe as in scary, I meant cringe as in like someone scraped their fingernails across the chalk board.
What's frightened you
gogo
Use that scraper and get the data anyway? If you can't find it, ask that neo guy on Forum Promotion. Or me I guess, I have the script as well, I just don't use it.
I keep it because I know Proboards keep removing it, in case there's somehow an emergency that requires it. Don't want to end up like 'oh, I need a converter right now. Oh wait, I lost it four years ago. Damn
I didn't mean cringe as in scary, I meant cringe as in like someone scraped their fingernails across the chalk board.
Hmm so proboards can profit off the users posts and the admin's hard work of getting the users to their system but the creator of the forum has no avenue to make money? Sounds like a sweet gig for Proboards. This was yet another speaker at ForumCon on building successful communities? Seems we really missed out on some sound advice there.
I think it is kind of odd that Proboards homepage has a CTA to move your own forum to them as well.
Valid points, they do get all that for offering a community that will never cost you anything to run. Things sway way better in their favour for making money, agreed on that.
Here is something to think about though. If you look at this forum called Horse Gossip running proboards, they have a section called Equine Services. Now I'm not saying they make money from that running the board, but surely you can see how they could in allowing services to capture sales from members, maybe an agreed percentage of sales done from forum with each service advertised there?
I've no idea if that's against ProBoards policy or not, haven't checked. But how would they know anyway if you agreed it with shops "in private" and then let them advertise on your board like their.
Come on... you've known me long enough from vBulletin days, to know I don't need lessons in how to host a forum board myself on a server host rented.I still don't understand what is so hard about 8.95 hostgator and a PhpBB, MyBB, SMF or many of the other free software out there that gives you complete control of the forum. At this point in the forum world era, there is basically an article to hold your hand through every process of running your own forum.
Come on... you've known me long enough from vBulletin days, to know I don't need lessons in how to host a forum board myself on a server host rented.
Hmm so proboards can profit off the users posts and the admin's hard work of getting the users to their system but the creator of the forum has no avenue to make money by selling their work? Sounds like a sweet gig for Proboards. This was yet another speaker at ForumCon on building successful communities? Seems we really missed out on some sound advice there.
I think it is kind of odd that Proboards homepage has a CTA to move your own forum to them as well.
Will that be cumulable with the ad removal plans?Hi guys, Patrick from ProBoards here.
We're actually introducing some new features pretty soon here that will help forum admins generate revenue while still getting our free hosting. More details will be posted on our blog once the features go live.
Hi guys, Patrick from ProBoards here.
We're actually introducing some new features pretty soon here that will help forum admins generate revenue while still getting our free hosting. More details will be posted on our blog once the features go live.