The Beaten Path (Read 778 times)

Thanks for the feedbacks. My main concern is bandwidth, since the RSS clients will be pounding my server. This problem maybe resolved when I move to a different hosting company. I might go with RSS since that seems to be a little more popular. It doesn't seem too hard. What kind of info should I include in the feed? As for paying for the site, quite a few members have stepped up and donated money. While that is still not enough to pay for the hosting, it reduced my out of pocket expense and I am very grateful for the generosity. There are basically two ways to generate money: fee and ad based. I don't like to impose a fee because I want it to be accessible to everyone and not just the ones that can afford it. You may argue that I can offer a free basic service and paid members get more features but how do you decide what is free and what is not? I've given this much thought and one way to draw the line is anything that requires extra resources (whether more computing time such as additional statistics or more bandwidth such as RSS) warrants a fee. I want to keep all users on the site as peers. Ads offer a good alternative solution to paid membership. My issue with it is that they can be distracting. Still, I need a way to let the site pay for itself, especially with new members joining every hour, there will be a time when it becomes too expensive to run the site without consistent revenue. I am considering some ads next year.

Is this an invitation to the 100 mile club? But I've resisted so long. Sometimes I feel like it's a choice: my Ph.D. or the 100 mile club. I saw what it did to Scout. Nevermind about Trent.

Hey! What did it do to me? Since I joined, I hit a marathon PR, and a 5k PR. Stick that in your mortar board.

Drew. How do you know you actually met this "Trent". It could have been some monkey in a costume.