| New pricing and site plans |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|09:16 am] |
As I said in my post in ![[info]](http://www.inksome.com/img/userinfo.gif) staff_kit, I've lowered the prices for paid accounts in an attempt to increase our paid account volume. The new pricing has been updated in Paypal and is listed on the Paid Accounts page.
I would like to address those people who suggested I put ads on Inksome in order to increase our revenue and help keep the site afloat. While I appreciate the suggestion very much, I'm not going to do that. Not only do I not wish to go back on my "no ads EVAR" promise (though that's a big thing) but putting ads on the site is a whole lot of trouble. I have to seek out advertisers for one, then add code to various parts of the site to display those ads to free users, but not paid users. And then there's the fact that Internet advertising is becoming less and less viable as a revenue source, so I'd have to display more and more ads, and more and more annoying ads, to keep up revenue. It's just not worth it, IMO.
Finally, as I said in my post, I'm going to be redoing IS in Ruby on Rails. Any Rails geeks out there, or anyone who wants to learn Rails with me, is welcome to help - most of the IS code will be GPL'd anyway. Why Rails instead of PHP or Perl? Resume fodder, plain and simple. Unless and until IS can pay me, I need to work a day job, and Rails would be a nice skill to have. |
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| Deleted accounts |
[Jul. 20th, 2008|07:43 pm] |
I just ran a purge on deleted accounts older than 60 days (i.e. they've been deleted for at least 60 days). If there's a name you're looking for, maybe it's become available.
Also, as of 00:00:00 CDT on 28 July 2008, I will be raising the prices for paid accounts.
New paid account prices will be:
$35 for one year (save $13 off the 3 month rate)
$19 for 6 months (save $5 off the 3 month rate)
$12 for 3 months
This should go without saying, but just in case: these prices are not retroactive. If you paid for a year at $25, you get a year. So if you want to renew, you might want to do it soon. :)
-- Kit |
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