Has anyone

[Harry]

(06-14-2010 07:08 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  

(06-14-2010 05:41 PM)Harry Wrote:  BTW.. I never understood that argument some make. I suspect there is many sites without any income period and thus dont have the money for such a thing. Now if they had the ability to make some money then a greater chance they may buy something else. Catch my drift?  If i was a plugin author trying to make money THIS is one that would be free. I would be pushing it hard too. That way it increases my odd's of more sites having the means to buy my paid stuff. Some are really not to bright when it comes to this stuff.

I think that's a bit of a quirky way to think of things.
For one, most (legitimate - not some stupid 13 year old thinking "zomg I can earn moniezzz!") admins should be able to cover the cost of hosting if they plan to actually accept payments for things.  The subscriptions to paid sites are really cheap compared to the cost of hosting.

Of course, there probably are situations where someone tries to start up something with no monetary capital on free hosting, and actually intend to purchase modifications if they had the money (or unwilling to send funds to PayPal), but I think this is rather a small minority.

Not really. I know of a number of sites ( some very large ) who totally rely on donations etc for this sort of thing including hosting etc. Thinking more about it that one site ( big board ) i linked to about another plugin ( wondering if it was possible ) has their donation system built like this. Basically if you donate you get some added stuff. The donations is what keeps that place running. Plus more and more do try to avoid free forum hosting at all costs now because of it's limitations. Talking about access to he database etc so people can move on to paid hosting when the need comes and or when they can. So they will start out with very cheap hosting which can be had. I still think if a site is able to make money then they would be more willing to spend money on other stuff.

Then there is the issue of limited places to go for some plugins such as this one. As said labrocca i *believe* is the only one who has such a plugin? His however is for single paid subscriptions. So there is a need for it and especially a need for a improved one over what he has.


I strongly believe this is why those like SMF/PHPBB remain on top because stuff like this is available and not to mention for free. yet the morons on MYBB expects someone to pay for this and i dont give a damn about it only being 10 dollars. That is still 10 dollars someone would have saved by going to SMF/PHPBB and thus why they do. yeah MYBB is very good but when it comes down to it people are gonna cut corners and the other two options do get the job done. Till those on MYBB start seeing this again i strongly believe MYBB is not going anywhere fast anytime soon. Not till there is alternatives for everything including this. I'll say here and now if i really needed this one thing i would switch to another system before going to labrocca for it. believe it or not there is many others who do just that and refuses to use his stuff because of the hack site he runs. Thats not my reason but all know how forum owners are where that sort of thing is concerned. It is just a huge turn off no matter how one explains it.