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  1. 1 hour ago, SunStorm said:

    Just signed up for a subscription to give back a bit, does it take a while for me to stop seeing the ads?

    It shouldn’t do. But the site might be cached on your browser. 

    ive confirmed with other subscribers and altering my own access permissions too. 

    let me know if you are still seeing them. 

  2. Hi everyone, 

    I thought I should update this old thread to post a note about the new ads that are appearing on the site.  

    as suggested by the TGA community in a previous post (see above), the way the site will be funded is via a mixture of ads, subscribers and donations.  

    We are at around £350-400 a month in running costs for the traffic we get and I can't fund this myself anymore.  We have had an awesome amount of support from donations and subscribers and sponsors but it is still WAY below what the site is costing to keep up.  

    In December I payed out:

    $330 USD to the site software hire and hosting
    £50 GBPish to mail chimp for the email service
    £25 GBP to Amazon AWS for the media hosting

    Income from the site was:

    1 fantastic sponsor for the month. £100 Thank you MINI MAG TRAY!
    Donations in December - £0
    Subscriptions in December -  £40
     

    The fact of the matter is that the AdSense ads have been up less than 12 hours at the time of typing and have produced £2.50 already.  Over a full day, and over a year that's probably going to be £1500-2000.  If ad Sense can bering in £5 a day then I will help towards the costs over the year.  (annual costs expected to be £4-5000 in 2020) 

     

    So over the weekend I am adding Ad Sense to the site.  I set it up last night and some time in the night it got activated.  This morning I twerked the amount of display ads and over the next few days i'll be able to set it up so Guests get a high amount.  Logged in users get an average amount, and subscribers get no ads at all.  

    some things to bear in mind -

    If you subscribe and support the site you get zero ads along with some other features like additions daily reactions, a golden profile and ability to customise your rank name.  

    If you are a guest and not logged in you will reduce the amount of ads by logging in.  

    If you are a store/creator/manufacturer and want to promote your stuff we can offer you ads on the site. 

     

    it all goes to cover running costs, thanks! 

     

     

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  3. Hi guys, 

    as suggested by the TGA community in a previous post (see below), the way the site will be funded is via a mixture of ads, subscribers and donations.  

    We are at around £350-400 a month in running costs for the traffic we get and I can't fund this myself anymore.  We have had an awesome amount of support from donations and subscribers and sponsors but it is still WAY below what the site is costing to keep up.  

    In December I payed out 

    $330 USD to the site software hire and hosting
    £50 GBPish to mail chimp for the email service
    £25 GBP to Amazon AWS for the media hosting

    Income from the site was:

    1 fantastic sponsor for the month. £100 Thank you MINI MAG TRAY!
    Donations in December - £0
    Subscriptions in December -  £40

     

    Previous thread discussing this.  

     

    Previous suggestions/cost covering attempts-

     

     

    The fact of the matter is that the AdSense ads have been up less than 12 hours and have produced £2.50 already.  Over a day, and over a year that's probably going to be £1500-2000.  If ad Sense can bering in £5 a day then I will help towards the costs over the year.  

     

    So over the weekend I am adding Ad Sense to the site.  I set it up last night and some time in the night it got activated.  This morning I twerked the amount of display ads and over the next few days i'll be able to set it up so Guests get a high amount.  Logged in users get an average amount, and subscribers get no ads at all.  

     

     

     

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  4. This weekend is the big one.  Over 500 tournaments gamers in events worldwide. 

    Cancon 220

    LVO 168

    the GW GT is usually around 100 

    Maybe over 600 in all events! 

     

    I grabbed the image off @Antipodean7 on twitter. 

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    Any predictions for this weekends events?  Big winners and losers?  OBR are looking strong but Tzeentch could be a good counter to them .  I wouldn't be surprised to see some shocks out of nowhere too. 

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  5. Now that Stormcast have a dedicated spot on the forums I thought we could have some discussions around   the various builds in the Stormcast book.  Shootcast is one of the hot lists.  

    Who is playing Shootcast, what are you running, which combos do you finds best and which are less effective? 

  6. The reason is a financial one. 

    This site still does not pay for itself.  It's funded entirely by me, helped by donations and sponsors.  Costs (From the software and hosting provider) and are based on the number of currently viewing members over a 24 hour period. i.e. currently, on average, at any one time we have between 300-400 users on the site, 24 hours a day.  This is in addition to AWS Amazon media hosting and the email provider too. its roughly £350-400 per month 

    As subforms are added, and they go behind a login I am hoping that the registered users will become more likely to be ongoing members of the community, and possibly help support the community rather than viewers from afar.  Also, it's easier to show sponsors that we have xxx logged in and active members.

    If people are not interested in being members of our community then they will not visit as and the hosting costs may come down.  I would prefer an amazing community with 100 active members that really support each other and love what we are all building here, over 60,000 casual readers (this is our unique monthly visitor figures) 

    I will also be putting Google Adsense display ads all over the site that will be visible to only non-logging in users. I'm not a fan of this as it doesn't look great, but with more logged in users it will 

    Its still free for members, its just going to need a log-in to access parts of the site. 

     

     

  7. Morning all.  

    Further to this trial I have changed the way the 'Order' forum is displayed.

    You now get:

    -Order

    - List of Sub forums

    -Order , Cities, so on....

     

    I have also added a Stormcast Subforum as this is the next largest faction.   At the moment I don't think we need a sub form for every faction (around 50 in total!) but the larger ones can be split off.  I will continue to trial this in Order, but will roll it out to other Grand Alliances soon.  I think Death might be next as they are distinct factions in FEC, NH, OBR and teh rest in Mixed Death forum. 

     

    I have also restricted subforms to members. You can see the forum but need to be logged in to view.  

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