Re: FORUM OWNERS MAKE MONEY

Posted by Hugo <Nabble> on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/FORUM-OWNERS-MAKE-MONEY-tp7190033p7194780.html

Hi Benjamin, thanks for the thoughtful feedback. Let me explain how things work so that you can better see the big picture. First of all, Nabble does allow people to put their own ads on their apps (e.g., forums, galleries, etc.). Actually, Nabble is way more flexible than that. Our apps are built with a language called NAML that allows you to change how your pages look and work. So you can go from small customizations to entire new features and sites. The sky is the limit here. We haven't spent much time with marketing yet because this feature is still in beta, but we should get it ready for everyone in a few months.

With this in mind, implementing a feature like you suggested is complex because people will be able to change anything in their apps. At this point, if you want to remove our ads and add your own with NAML, it is not only possible but also simple. (It is extremely important to remember that this change is only allowed if the user has paid to remove our ads from his/her app -- in other words, the user should buy ad-free credits throught the menu Options > Remove ads. This is what serious users should do if they don't want to have their apps shut down).

So the value Nabble wants to bring is the ability to easily tweak apps and create things that would be hard with other CMS tools, like wordpress, etc. The feature you suggested makes more sense for rigid sites where people have limited customization options. Nabble doesn't put limits with NAML, so we should let users do what they want and we just watch and enforce our policy. Does this make sense? Please let me know what you think.