Why free?

[SteveM]

I would pay good money to have the nabble ad removed. How about it nabble?

[Hugo <Nabble>]

We also plan to charge a fee to have ads removed (besides having a paid forum support). What do you consider a reasonable price for ad removal?

Thanks a lot for the feedback.

[SteveM]

Other sites like this one (I actually use theirs atm, but I would prefer yours as it is more flexible) charge @ 25 dollars US for one year's free adverts (i.e their link is removed, no other ads etc.)

That would probably encourage me to switch over. I have a trial of your forum on my site, but don't want to launch it because your 'free embeddable forums' ad makes me look small-time when I am trying to compete with larger, more established sites/forums.

I really hope you implement these changes sooner rather than later.

Regards, Steve.

[John Yeoman]

I'm not bothered by Nabble's logo on my site. But then I want my site to look folksy and small time. My market is mature gardeners who are typically alienated by the slick, clinical, generic look of the big gardening forum sites, polluted by Google ads.

Idea: charge a fee that (a) provides for ad removal and (b) is linked to the numbers of forums in use per user plus forum storage capacity. Yola charges $19.95pa for sites in excess of five and throws in almost infinite storage capacity. But as you can put up no fewer than five Yola sites each of 5gb storage size for free, anyway, there's no incentive to pay them.

I'm sure I'm not alone among Nabble users in wanting to pay a (modest) fee. I've always distrusted altruism