Jim,
Take this advice from an old friend. It is your business, run it how you wish, but this may be a thought that could help that Eaker’s comment made me think.
Maybe you have an opportunity to lay out specifically what equipment you have and need. Outlining the specifics of the technical situation will first give the ‘restless’* customers some more peace of mind. You may be missing an opportunity. You may have FReepers who own server farms and have extras sitting around that meet your need. You may have someone with spare T3 switches. You may have someone with the exact coding experience you need who can come in and perform miracles? Maybe giving up just a little control will be easier on you, transform the site, and bring your customers back.
*I’ve never seen restlessness like this from the ‘customers’ in my decade here. Not just the occasional malcontents, but established, respected folks. In my world, if trend lines change, you have to review your business model and look for either cost savings, new ways to generate revenue, or new ways to attract customers. Don’t let this become ‘just another site’. You don’t have to change your values to do that either.
Just my opinion. Take it or leave it.
Well, I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to remove the other half of our equipment fund from our current freepathon goal and we’ll make other plans. It’s not worth the hassle. If all the people who say they’re leaving FR actually leave, we may be able to get by with less anyway.
mnehring, I agree and I think this is the best thread that could have been written at this stage in the game. It is time to decide what avenue Mr. Robinson wants FR to go. It is simply going to be a place for the same voice with no area for another opinion, then i guess that is what is what it will continue to be. I don’t see how that helps things just by repeating the same thing over and over again.
YOu know someone on here was talking about Reagan. And I thought how the world has changed in the time he has been in office. At that time communism was still a fighting word and it still is to me a dirty word. But now, we have a white black RED marxist phony president and no one seems to care except the ones that are middle to right. We keep expecting another Reagan and someone like that is once in a lifetime experience. I am not giving up, but by golly I am not giving money to be called names or zotted because i don’t repeat exactly what you or anyone says. It is Mr. Robinson’s project here, it really is awesome in the use of of it, there is none other like it, but my gosh. Was it REagan that said not every conservatives think alike on everything.
Melissa
melissa
mnehring, I agree and I think this is the best thread that could have been written at this stage in the game. It is time to decide what avenue Mr. Robinson wants FR to go. It is simply going to be a place for the same voice with no area for another opinion, then i guess that is what is what it will continue to be. I don’t see how that helps things just by repeating the same thing over and over again.
YOu know someone on here was talking about Reagan. And I thought how the world has changed in the time he has been in office. At that time communism was still a fighting word and it still is to me a dirty word. But now, we have a white black RED marxist phony president and no one seems to care except the ones that are middle to right. We keep expecting another Reagan and someone like that is once in a lifetime experience. I am not giving up, but by golly I am not giving money to be called names or zotted because i don’t repeat exactly what you or anyone says. It is Mr. Robinson’s project here, it really is awesome in the use of of it, there is none other like it, but my gosh. Was it REagan that said not every conservatives think alike on everything.
Melissa
melissa