Thank you for supporting Brewerfan.net!

[950opsLHcatcher]

On behalf of Brian and everyone else at Brewerfan, I'd like to give a big thank you to all of you that have donated money towards keeping the Brewerfan message board pop-up free. Just today we recieved $250, pushing us over the half-way mark to the $945 needed to keep the boards pop-up ad-free.

 

I'll try not to sound like a PBS pledge drive here, but if you haven't contributed yet, please consider any amount you can muster if you value the Brewerfan message boards as much as I know many of you do. And remember that you don't even need to pay anything straight out of pocket - you can take up EZBoard on one of their special offers that will put money into the Brewerfan coffers.

 

EDIT: I'd like to give special commendation to a donation of $100 a few weeks ago to RoseBowlMtg. That's a lot of money for a simple little web site, and we thank you greatly for it.

 

Thank you again to everyone who has contributed, we hope you enjoy the new look of Brewerfan.net, and we look forward to serving your Brewers needs for the near and distant future.

 

And remember to buy some stuff from the store:

www.cafepress.com/bfdotnet

 

Cheers!

[pogokat]

Toby---

 

Its very weird to think that just three years ago, you, Katuluu and I paid for six months...and now its gonna take $500 for 6 months!!!

 

Holy crap

 

question...how much more exspensive can this place get???? Are we talking sky's the limit type stuff here???

[Katuluu]

I do believe the cost is dependent on the amount of traffic we generate, so it is only going to increase. If the Brewers start winning any time soon I think Brian will probably have to start looking for a cheaper alternative. Either that or everyone is going to have to pay their own way to keep pop-ups off the site.

[PeaveyFury]

What happened to the small ads that were at the top of the boards? I thought that Brian had said that those reduced the cost of the boards, and I didn't think that they were all that obnoxious or eyesore...

[squarepusher]

EZBoard decided to end that program, as the revenue didn't match the cost.

[ja002h]

Well, there seems to be at least one easy money opportunity out there for us. I just went through the CleanFilms free trial registration (I believe it gets us $14 or $16 or so), and pleasantly discovered that they actually have online cancellation. I'm waiting to see bf.net get credited, then go and cancel. If it's this easy, someone should just stick the instructions on a sticky or something. It takes all of 2 minutes, you can cancel at the same time as you're perusing the forumshttp://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif , and it's free! If everyone who posted did it once, we'd be there in no time...

 

edit: that one's worth $19. So if we need $290 more right now, that's 15 people. Like taking candy from a baby.

[colbyjack]

Wow, that's a big jump in just 2 short days. Thanks to those who have contributed!

[1992casey]

It was interesting how those EZboard ads worked. Apparently they were able to determine what should be advertised based on the text of posts. When steroids were being discussed on the forums, ads for sites selling steroids appeared.

[squarepusher]

I believe they were using the Google AdSense program, where in the background Google did a search of their advertisers given the text on the page.

[molitor fan]

Amazing how quick that money was raised....a true testement to how Brewer fans revere this site.....congrats Brian

[squarepusher]

To say i'm impressed by the generousity of the users here would be the understatment of the year. What was it, like a day and a half of asking for donations? FILTHY.

 

Thanks to all you posters and all you lurkers out there who made another year of hassle-free message boards possible. Words can't say enough about our user base.

[colbyjack]

Wow. The community chest is filled & taken care of? Unbelievable. Thanks to all for your support!