Posted on 01/11/2011 5:28:06 AM PST by paulycy
FYI -
Here are statements from Jim about the future of FreeRepublic.com for those who missed them. They are quite serious.
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"Well, I can say that there are definitely two things that will never happen. 1) Banner ads. 2) Oracle [a completely new database system.] And a third is a total replacement [of the current damaged system.] Don’t have the financial wherewithal."
"To those who wish to leave because of it, see ya."
"If FR dies, that’s that."
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[To: paulycy]
Hey, you want us to get an all new system with all new software and add a few more pricey techs, system programmers and database administrators to keep it all working 100% of the time 24/7/365? Well, start coughing up the big bucks.
It’s going to take tens of thousands of donations and many with at least three zeros each after the comma to accomplish the task. And that would be EVERY month like clock work to make the payroll. Once you take on a big load of expensive overhead, there’s no going back. As it is, we get a couple thousand donations per quarter averaging about $30 bucks each and there’s no guarantees we can cover this quarter’s expenses much less next quarter. We’re on a pay as we go system and we have zero employees.We just ask for enough to pay the bills.
Throwing more money at the problem won’t solve it. [This latest glitch] was a technical issue and we just had to keep troubleshooting until we found it. And no, we’re not going to invite a bunch of strangers in to get their hands on our secure systems. John has been programming since he was 14 and he’s pushing 40 now. He built these systems and he’s an expert in them.
And no, we are not going to throw out our software and rewrite it and no we’re not going to move on to some other database system. There are no guarantees that any other system can do a better job and not without hiring a staff to build and maintain it and that’s for sure. And we don’t have the financial wherewithal to do any of that anyway. Maybe if we had a couple million bucks at our disposal and a couple years to do it in we could build an iron-clad system. And maybe not.
All I can say is, if someone else can do it better and cheaper, then please step right on up and get ‘er done!! I’ll bow out and retire. Thankyouverymuch.
Hit it boys:
https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/
And no, we have no plans of taking FR commercial. I like it the way it is. Not sure I could handle getting rich.
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- Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2653583/posts?page=168#168
Oh wait I didnt get it...
Oh noez...
Its not fair !!!
theres an anti involved in this...
Goodbye cruel world...
I've seen individual replies go away, and I've seen entire threads disappear, but neither can be editted.
G-d Bless you sir! I only pay for three news sources:
Wall Street Journal
National Review
Free Republic
Keep on Freepin’ on!
Don’t they just look happy to be doing it!
To put that into perspective, FR gets slightly more visits than msnbc.com. Places like drudgereport and cnn.com beat FR, but we're still in the same order-of-magnitude, while I'm guessing that cnn.com has a MUCH bigger budget than JimRob has.
You have my vote for president!
Thanks, Jim. You are all appreciated.
And what of the articles that go missing after various weeks or months?
I have no problem going to the originating source to finish reading an article, but, I don’t want to ALWAYS have to do so.
That depends on what your goals and expectations are.
I’m not trying to ferret out denomination wide distinctives.
I’m asking for a very personal set of multi-dimensional snapshots at a variety of congregational types of the Christian experience.
I find that exceedingly fascinating and informative about Christian life as well as human nature in general.
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Well, I need to amend my post. lol To use the FR logo and have it readable (the part about defending the Constitution), you can probably get 4 to a page.
Yay!
I’ve reached the end of the thread.
We can all go to bed now...
+1
BTW, where else do you have to learn html at least a bit in order to swim.
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I read the thread when it started
I doubt that FReeper’s comment could or would change anything
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I agree. It’s hard for me to imagine the situation that prevents any American from having a spare 10 bucks over the course of a 6 week freepathon.
What if FR was a paid subscription of $1.00 per month? Might be easier that way.
It depends on what you value more - the bandwidth or the CPU load. All pages are dynamic. Even the main forum page updates counters once someone posts a comment. You would have to compress very frequently, and that is a bottleneck because you have to do that on your own CPU. On the other hand, bandwidth is scalable, and once it's out of your link (that you pay for) you don't care how it gets routed to any specific client.
Everybody has a voice and not one comment here will make changes if they are not wanted. Always lots of arguing on threads like this. JimRob stated what he wants and doesn’t want. I saw it early on too.
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