Re: FORUM OWNERS MAKE MONEY

Posted by BJ on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/FORUM-OWNERS-MAKE-MONEY-tp7190033p7195413.html

Hi Hugo,
Thanks for the response. I respect what you're working on here. It looks like a great product, and you are bringing it to market at a great time. That is a winning formula. I wish  you the best. I also want to compliment you and your team for the atttitude in professionlism I've read in many of the posts in the support forum. It looks to me as if you've answered nearly every inquiry in detail, and furthermore it looks to me like you've implemented many of the requests by the users for different functionalities.

In regard to my inquiry; i'm not sure I understand your perspective. Why can't I leave your ads and ad some of my own? Then we both share in traffic. Why is my only option to pay for removal of the ads? That doesn't seem flexible, it seems rigid; against the Nable culture no? What did you mean by the feature I requested is suitable for more rigid sites? For example if I buy a domain from godaddy and set up VBulletin on server side I am in control of my own destiny right? Full flexibility.

Nabble's selling point is easy implementation, easy management, and easy embeddability. It's an alternative to a more robust form like Vbulletin. If you approach this correctly and keep your users happy, engaged, and partners in this you will succeed greatly.

One other quick question which is off topic:  what happens if you change something in the future I'm not happy with and I have 1million posts on the forum? Is there a way to back up my site and transfer it (export) it to another option like vBulletin for example?

How can we both share in the popularity of my forums that I'm about to build using the Nabble Plattform without me having to "buy to have ads removed". I don't get that approach. It's seems silly.......kind of backwards. I pay to have ads removed, only to put my own up in place of them? Then what? On an ongoing basis I'm getting checks from google for adsense, and still cutting you checks to keep your ads off my forum? That seems kind of silly when we can both have ads on my forum or come up with a more logical workaround? Sorry I don't mean to sound condescending, I don't have all the answers; but I've spoken about this with a bunch of people in the space and we can't understand the model here. Can't you guys come up with something better that will excite your user base instead of piss them off? I read a lot of posts of people angry about the ads. What if you were to say to them hey what are you complaining about? You can make money here too!?