Hi All,
I want to thank everyone who voiced their opinion on the subject of member funding the website.
We watched the polls closely over the 2 days it ran & the votes were never more than 3 apart from being split 50/50.
A survey was sent out a couple years ago that included the same question & the results were pretty much the same.
With that said, we will offer pre-registration to a new subscription based membership.
Subscribers will indeed retain full access to the website, along with all the new functions we can currently implement at the moment. (
See those here).
Subscribers will also have access to a new, subscriber only discussion forum to request new projects & features that will ultimately benefit our users directly.
We have temporarily lowered the subscription fee to $3.99 a month for everyone, with 6 month & 1 year subscriptions discounted even further.
On top of that, we have issued personal discount coupons to our biggest contributors most active members.
Note that your personal discounted subscription fee will never increase unless you drop/cancel your subscription. That in essence, means it will be your subscription for as long as you want it.
All pre-registration coupons expire at the end of July 08.
So if you have a little faith & want on board early, take advantage soon.
We offered discounted pre-registration with our web hosting service years ago & happy to say we have clients with us over 4 years now who still pay that same pre-registration price.
For now, we will continue to keep the existing forums open & freely accessible until a decision is made to go subscription only, or create tiers/levels for our subscribers. They will ultimately make that decision.
Note: If we decide to keep a free membership, it will likely come at the sacrifice of PM, signature & email permissions. So if you intend to remain a free user, make sure to download/export your PM's soon. That feature is available in your Private Message area.
Thank you,
Jerry "redg8r"
