Post by Consequence on Oct 18, 2015 18:56:33 GMT -5
Hello ladies and gents!
First, I'm super happy to be here. Seriously. This migration has been a labor of love, pain, and gnashing of teeth for many of us on Staff for several weeks now and it brings me great joy to have the difficult, large picture part of the migration done. Needless to say, there are many details yet to discover as well as iron out and our work is ongoing. It's not perfect, but it could get to the point where it's pretty damn close. That excites me, and I hope you're enthused as well! So, while here at our new home, we need to make you aware of one change.
At this point in time, Bleach Gotei is big and it is only getting bigger. We're talking 15,000 page views a day or more. We have a package that supports our forums and predictable charges, but it's become clear in merely 36 hours with the metrics and reporting we now have at our disposal, that we are going to shatter the package we have in place at this time. The costs of running the site are an expected expense, but in order to help soften the blow of this leap in costs, we have integrated very limited Advertising for this site.
As of the time of this post, there are only two, functioning ads - One that goes along the page header, and one that goes along the page footer. We may look to include one or two other minimally invasive ads if we can find ones that we are happy with having in the site layout.
Through another URL that I own, I have already signed up for and enrolled in Google AdSense, so in order the expedite the process, this has been created for Bleach Gotei in my name. Other members of staff have access to the credentials and disbursement information as a fail-safe. The sole purpose of the income from these ads is to defer server costs and 100% of ad revenue goes to this.
So since we are now running some ads, let me assure you of one other thing: We will never, ever, intentionally enable ads that create pop-ups, include audio components, trigger videos to play on screen, or anything invasive like that. If you start experiencing behavior of this sort, 1) Check your computer for viruses (the likely explanation) and 2) Let me or Shun know, in case there is a real issue with our AdSense.
Finally, in light of the above, we would really, really appreciate it if you could disable your pop-up blocker, AdBlocker, or other such programs which suppress adverts for our site. Even if you never ever click on any of them, the pageviews add up in a way that makes each click more and more valuable, and it's infinitely appreciated.
And if the day comes, where ad revenue outweighs server costs, I promise you there will be a "beer list" to give back to our members (or soda list for you adorable young ones)
Please keep comments and questions in this thread to the topic above, or feel free to contact me on Skype.
First, I'm super happy to be here. Seriously. This migration has been a labor of love, pain, and gnashing of teeth for many of us on Staff for several weeks now and it brings me great joy to have the difficult, large picture part of the migration done. Needless to say, there are many details yet to discover as well as iron out and our work is ongoing. It's not perfect, but it could get to the point where it's pretty damn close. That excites me, and I hope you're enthused as well! So, while here at our new home, we need to make you aware of one change.
At this point in time, Bleach Gotei is big and it is only getting bigger. We're talking 15,000 page views a day or more. We have a package that supports our forums and predictable charges, but it's become clear in merely 36 hours with the metrics and reporting we now have at our disposal, that we are going to shatter the package we have in place at this time. The costs of running the site are an expected expense, but in order to help soften the blow of this leap in costs, we have integrated very limited Advertising for this site.
As of the time of this post, there are only two, functioning ads - One that goes along the page header, and one that goes along the page footer. We may look to include one or two other minimally invasive ads if we can find ones that we are happy with having in the site layout.
Through another URL that I own, I have already signed up for and enrolled in Google AdSense, so in order the expedite the process, this has been created for Bleach Gotei in my name. Other members of staff have access to the credentials and disbursement information as a fail-safe. The sole purpose of the income from these ads is to defer server costs and 100% of ad revenue goes to this.
So since we are now running some ads, let me assure you of one other thing: We will never, ever, intentionally enable ads that create pop-ups, include audio components, trigger videos to play on screen, or anything invasive like that. If you start experiencing behavior of this sort, 1) Check your computer for viruses (the likely explanation) and 2) Let me or Shun know, in case there is a real issue with our AdSense.
Finally, in light of the above, we would really, really appreciate it if you could disable your pop-up blocker, AdBlocker, or other such programs which suppress adverts for our site. Even if you never ever click on any of them, the pageviews add up in a way that makes each click more and more valuable, and it's infinitely appreciated.
And if the day comes, where ad revenue outweighs server costs, I promise you there will be a "beer list" to give back to our members (or soda list for you adorable young ones)
Please keep comments and questions in this thread to the topic above, or feel free to contact me on Skype.