Mr Lucky
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Is that bad?Financials update
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Is that bad?Financials update
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I’ve seen a couple that seem to be fine. Maybe it’s worse with (possibly smaller) forums where the users had a more personal interaction with the owners.it's not good from what I've seen and also read in Google reviews and Reddit.
Can you please link us to these reviews you've seen?I’ve seen a couple that seem to be fine. Maybe it’s worse with (possibly smaller) forums where the users had a more personal interaction with the owners.
They destroyed so many forums back in the day, especially the big automotive ones. Made cash offers that owners couldn't refuse and then ran those sites into the ground.
I personally wouldn't bother with selling my forum off to anyone if i didn't want it anymore. I'd just nuke it.
It's for the greater good for humanity. I assume you have never seen what gets discussed at an AFL forum comprising of 1 admin and 2 users who agree with the admin for fear of getting banned.I've never understood this. If you have an active forum and you are basically done with it. Why shut it down when you know you could sell it and make some money?
It's for the greater good for humanity. I assume you have never seen what gets discussed at an AFL forum comprising of 1 admin and 2 users who agree with the admin for fear of getting banned.
Keep in mind his comments come from the point of view of a forum that has no monetary value beyond perhaps selling the Xenforo license.I've never understood this. If you have an active forum and you are basically done with it. Why shut it down when you know you could sell it and make some money?
Keep in mind his comments come from the point of view of a forum that has no monetary value beyond perhaps selling the Xenforo license.
Some people are indeed strange.I totally get that but he wasn't the only that has thought that and actually did it. I know of 2 or 3 forums that had huge amounts of traffic and posts/threads that I was hoping to buy. Instead of selling them, they decided to just close it down eventually. They could have made decent money on selling the site, but instead shut it down. That just doesn't make sense to me.
Not everyone wants to see their online community become an ad farm, whether they still own it or not.
I'd agree with this. I sold one of my forums a few years, or so, ago. The only changes that have been made are the updates I've made to the custom add-ons that are there and the additional ads on the site, including some of those annoying ones that stick to the page that you can't scroll by.Not everyone wants to see their online community become an ad farm, whether they still own it or not.
Some people don't really care about the money. I've never started a forum hoping to get rich off of it. Hell, most of the forums I've run ended up not making any money at all because I always overspend on my server because I want the site to be as fast and responsive for the users as possible. I've also paid extra for CDN services for this same reason (until recently when I switched to Cloudflare because my CDN provider stopped their CDN service offering). I do it because I genuinely love forums and love learning to code new things.I get it to a certain degree, but what is the difference between the new owner possibly destroying the forum in the future rather then the original owner destroying it now by shutting it completely down? This is were it makes zero sense to me. The difference there is the original owner has money in the bank then nothing at all.
I'd agree with this. I sold one of my forums a few years, or so, ago. The only changes that have been made are the updates I've made to the custom add-ons that are there and the additional ads on the site, including some of those annoying ones that stick to the page that you can't scroll by.
Anyways, the point is, I wish I would have never sold the site. If I had it to do all over again, it wouldn't even be a consideration. I would've either kept it going or just shut it down. At least then I wouldn't have to watch as members complain about this and that while being absolutely powerless to help them even though I know how to fix the issue.
It was a life lesson, though. One that I won't have to worry about making again.
I sold a site a few years ago. Of course there is always some regret but I'm glad I did, for several reasons. Money helped and got me where I am today. The site was on the down curve and eventually tanked. Even if I never sold it, I would have never shut it down.
Maybe because in the back of their mind they might be thinking that they could bring it back again once they are over whatever reason they wanted/needed to shut it down?This is were it makes zero sense to me. The difference there is the original owner has money in the bank then nothing at all.
That's kind of my thought if WC2 ever shuts down due to lack of interest. I will keep the domain and license for myself and maybe spin up something new eventually.Maybe because in the back of their mind they might be thinking that they could bring it back again once they are over whatever reason they wanted/needed to shut it down?
Now I'm curious what those 2 forums are...I was going to post a separate thread but, there is some forum "group" out there, not VS or IB, that has acquired two forums that I used to frequent, one of them an acquaintance of mine (he ran his own forum while also moderating for a much larger one that I am an admin for). What I can't get over is their new owner and admins' tactics for fundraising. It's very pushy and crass. And the amount of money they are asking for each of the two forum is very similar. One of my smaller forums has similar traffic to the one my acquaintance runs, and the out of pocket costs to run it are about $3,500 to $4,000 less than what they are asking as their fundraising goal.
The saddest part is that I would have gladly taken over these communities myself, if I'd had the funds to purchase.
As for the VS forums, there is one I've found somewhat useful which I visit every so often. No issues with it, really, but it's still not as good as when a privately-owned forum used to offer the same topic. (That owner was a bit weird, as he used phpBB and, after the final time it was hacked, stopped answering emails and never put it back online.) But I noticed in the automotive field that the second a new car model is introduced, VS starts up a new forum for it almost immediately. Aside from some news posts, the forums mostly sit unused. Seems like a desperate attempt at grabbing at straws.
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