Nosy About Funding

Alynzia · April 21, 2002, 08:43

I have been to many vBulletin sites.

I recently joined one about the film 'Gladiator' which had all kinds Russell Crowe information.

It is

http://dreamworksfansite.com/gladbb/...php?forumid=12

I've never posted there, but the moderator said:

Dear G-Fans, Originally, I was suppose to make an announcement last week about pop-ups and power ads returning to the board for some months. However, the need became less within days which lead me not to make no announcement on that.

However, once again, the board needs your help. The board is a License product by VBulletin. And they ask for fixed dollars to renew the License every year. Since there have been some problems recently, this time they are asking for a higher number in US Dollars. All I ask are small donations from each of you that equals to that amount.

You can either paypal it to me or send an international money order to the following address

Jawad Mir
31 Adelaide Street
P.O.Box 304
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5C 2J4

Hope you understand and I am certain you guys will come out to help. Thanks.

Jawad

I ain't paying, I read one tiny Ed Harris article and I'm not paying $10 for that privallege.

Does Apolyton request such donations? I have a 'spare' kidney.
And how come you aren't as up front as the Jawad person?
And what is this ever rising 'fixed' sum vBulletin requests?
And have you ever considered turning Off-Topic into a gay man dating agency?

Alynzia.

Alexander's Horse · April 21, 2002, 09:13

Don't worry - you won't be asked for money here - this site is fully funded by the aluminati.

MarkG · April 21, 2002, 09:20

1) thank you, but we're not in the position to need to ask for donations
2) there are two ways to have vBulletin
- lease it for $85/year
- buy it for $160

Urban Ranger · April 21, 2002, 11:27

If you lease it, do you automatically receive upgrades?

MarkG · April 21, 2002, 11:49

yes, if you lease it, you get all the upgrades
if you buy it, you can get upgrades for 30$/year

Solver · April 21, 2002, 12:40

Markos, I can remember you telling that Apolyton will NEVER be a pay site... do *you* remember?

MarkG · April 21, 2002, 12:46

what makes you wonder if i remember or not?

Solver · April 21, 2002, 12:55

Let's call it curiosity

.

If you forget the words, you might actually make us pay someday

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MarkG · April 21, 2002, 13:08

if you have no reason to wonder about it then i'd like you not to question my memory. thanks.

Dauphin · April 21, 2002, 13:14

Quote:

Originally posted by MarkG
1) thank you, but we're not in the position to need to ask for donations
2) there are two ways to have vBulletin
- lease it for $85/year
- buy it for $160

yes, if you lease it, you get all the upgrades
if you buy it, you can get upgrades for 30$/year

I take you plan on having vBulletin for less than 3 more years.

MarkG · April 21, 2002, 13:17

actually, we own a vb license, we dont lease it.

Dauphin · April 21, 2002, 13:19

Change "less" with "more" in the other post.

I guess you would have recouped your cost by now. Fourth anniversary this summer isn't it.

DanQ · April 21, 2002, 14:53

Quote:

Originally posted by Solver
Let's call it curiosity

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If you forget the words, you might actually make us pay someday

.

The operative word here is make, which naturally implies that we are talking about a pay-only site. That is not and will not be the case with Apolyton -- we are continuing to stick to the promise we made long ago along these lines. Payment would only be, if/when implemented, optional. All of the content would still be free. As for what you would get with payment, we are still exploring "feature lists" options as well as if, when and how to implement such a payment structure.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

Zopperoni · April 21, 2002, 15:02

Quote:

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
I guess you would have recouped your cost by now. Fourth anniversary this summer isn't it.

Err, we're only using vBB since May or something last year...so there's still a while to go

Dauphin · April 21, 2002, 15:11

Isn't it part of the same licence, is the vbb completely different to the old system? I thought it was an upgrade of version, hence covered by the upgrade costs Mark was talking about. I'm not a web tekkie, and have a poor memory on the issue, so you are probably right.

MarkG · April 21, 2002, 15:17

vB is totally different from UBB, in fact it's made by a different company

Zopperoni · April 21, 2002, 15:50

IIRC, Infopop had a pretty decent PHP board that they took over from wwwthreads. I used to goof around with wwwthreads, vBB and phpBB as well...gotta love them PHP boards