0ldcat wrote:I'm sorry I'm not feeling the love
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Same here. It looks like someone's trying to find something deep in my purse.
Castiel wrote:I don't think it will do much but I'd like to add that I am also not happy with these changes. We ran on $50~ a year and now it goes up to $100~ a year to get the same things that we purchased in the past with a lot of unnecessary additions. As others have mentioned before, I do understand that Forumotion is in need of more finances to keep on running but I don't believe that this is the right method.
Hello Castiel,
I ran with 5100 credits per year. And yes, i will need nearly 9000 credits next year. Nearly the double ! But it is worse for some of us.
I'm glad and lucky to use already many features (SSL / Domain name / Copyright and ads removal) since i have "only" Ã 80% increase.
Lucky if i compare to guy who just bought SSL certificate for 500 credits, and will need 3600 credits next year (620% increase)
First of all, if an argument is being raised by Forumotion that giving away free domains is costing so much then why do they not simply stop giving away free domains? Secondly, wouldn't it be better to simply increase the prices a little bit and still allow people to choose what they wish to purchase?
Well, maybe your pro-admin told you on previous page (page 3) that you can trust what i say and so on ? But
i will tell you not to trust the following lines because it's just my opinion (relying on no facts that i could check myself)
Giving away free domains, of course it costs money, of course Forumotion could save them. But Forumotion has a great heart. Difficult for them to choose to stop offer something to us. I dont know about you, but when i offer something to someone, i am as happy and sometimes even more happier than the folk who receives my gift.
Now, be serious ! If a hamburger restaurant needs money, he wont stop giving away free drinking straws. Asking Forumotion stop "wasting" money for offered domain names wont really help.
Just increase for example 40% the previous prices letting us choosing each service we need ?
Maybe it would work for one year or two, then the problem will be back, because i don't know if it's clear for you, but free Internet does not work as good as it worked 10 years ago.
There's another problem with a lower increasing. How do you increase the price of someone's running with no paying feature ?
Forumotion is a "free forum" platform. Free
is in its DNA. Free
is its DNA.
Forumotion needs to find something else than moderate increase to continue to work.
Forumotion has tried many things before during past years.
- They added sponsored content at bottom of some topics in 2016, and even gave us the way to stop them with no extra fee. They trusted us enough to think we would let those additionnal ads.
- Several years ago, they stopped offering additional domain choices for great events (Olympic Games, Soccer World Cup, release of some very popular movies like Harry Potter, Twilight, Star Wars)
- More recently they ran a
technical maintenance on many Forumotion domains.. Technical maintenance means you cannot choose any more those domain names, and if you were using one of them, your forum switched back to something.forumotion.com. Some of us can read between the lines to discover what is really a technical maintenance.
- The Godfather got rid of his private jet to take a motorbike in 2011 (not enough money to pay kerosene). And switched it versus a bicycle in 2014 (not enough money for both petrol and insurance). Now that he's riding a bike, I can say bull**it because he can not catch me anymore.
- Forumotion, it's also a company, precisely a "small or medium-sized enterprise". When a company doesn't work as good as before, i think you know what happens. For a small or medium-sized one, it's worse. It's a drama. A human drama. You don't know (and i don't know myself) what happened yet to that company, but in France (where Forumotion headquarters are located) there are some laws to protect workers.
- Last years i think we had fewer contests and/or lower prizes than in the past. Once again, this is not what will really help to reduce prizes with hundreds of credits when whole infra is running on so many servers.
I would be able to add many lines about clues Forumotion tried to improve its business model without having us to pay more, but one thing is important. Increasing prices is not enough. Forumotion needs to really change. And we need to change too, even if most of us hate that (and i hate that myself)
Once again, I don't think this will change much but I think if we all complain instead of accepting these changes silently they ought to hear us out at least and take it into consideration.
I can tell you what we have now is not what Forumotion planned. They already heard us before bringing us those f***ing
packages. But you should take in consideration those
packages are the result of a long and unpleasant work :
- Thinking the future
- Coding the feature
- Test it (and hear what testers might have said)
- Fixing it
- Testing it again
Now it's there but it's not finished. They still have to improve that. An endless job, and i hope it will really be
endless. Did i mentionned that even if staff members do not post, or write few posts there, they're still reading you and all of us. You're not dreaming. Some of your words, of your ideas, of mine and of all of us, might be the future of Forumotion.
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