Subscription Idea

Rabies

Chief mentioned another forum website *shock* in the humour board.

The website is www.offtopic.com if you want to send some hired goons around to thrash the place.

Anyway, they have a good idea for subscribers. People have multiple options to choose from, as seen here. People can pay, montly, quarterly, yearly or for life.

Boards.ie only as monthly and yearly options. Quarterly could be an option that students would use. The majority of members here are students. We only spend about 7-8 months of the year in college with free internet access. Some proably hardly use Boards.ie during the summer months and other holiday times. A quarterly fee might encourage some of them to pay to be a subscriber for the months spent in college. It would be a cheaper option than a monthly fee.

Would something like that work here?

I have taught about becoming a subscriber a few times. But really all I want to do is change my tag line Would it be possible for the Admins to have a small charge for those that would like to change just their tag lines.

So really what I'm saying is, could more options be introduced for potential subscribers.

A fee to change tag lines.
Quarterly fee.
Life Time fee for those that are addicted.

Any taughts ?

irishgeo

there is not enough features in the subscriber package to have such a detailed charging system.

If there was new features like perhaps competitions and other things it might be worth it.

Gordon

But bubba says that he's doing a competition, and iirc he's an admin of boards isn't he?

Moriarty

=/

DeVore

VB3 has a subscriber system with levels of rights etc and a Paypal system built in. We'll move to something like that as soon as we can...

DeV.

byte

Mmm, a Paypal system would be a good addition IMHO.

I'm looking forward to vB3

User45701

emm thats the new version of this boards system isent it?
im not sure.
Jolt did use a forum just like this 1 and they upgraded it a week or 2 ago to a new version and it looks crap - I Hate it.

I keep plaing to become a suscriber but the whole no job thing is a problem. i will suscribe as soon as we hit summer.

Also why would u only want to change ur tag line? Why not upload a custom avatar?

Rabies

Originally posted by User45701
Also why would u only want to change ur tag line? Why not upload a custom avatar?

Because I like my avatar. Have had it for over 2 years, never changed it

Is credit card payment accepted ?
If a member pays for one months subscription, will the tag line revert back to default after a month ?

Superman

here now come on this is really bent! half the fun with boards is that its free and has enjoyable but useless banter. the last thing we need is for a few money hungry tycoons to start charging!

and considering the amount of griegf on these boards about ireland being a rip off do you think it would go down well?

If you really want to charge you could have it so people do all thhe changes to there account and in order to pay for it they can text a premium txt line. It could be a method of payment.

If charging starts boards will loose its shine and considering the amount of people that have the know how and bandwidth, someone could easily set up a boards copy cat site

seamus

Originally posted by Superman
here now come on this is really bent! half the fun with boards is that its free and has enjoyable but useless banter. the last thing we need is for a few money hungry tycoons to start charging!

and considering the amount of griegf on these boards about ireland being a rip off do you think it would go down well?

If you really want to charge you could have it so people do all thhe changes to there account and in order to pay for it they can text a premium txt line. It could be a method of payment.

If charging starts boards will loose its shine and considering the amount of people that have the know how and bandwidth, someone could easily set up a boards copy cat site

You're missing a large piece of the puzzle, aren't you?

koneko

Cheap whiney people like you Superman can continue to use Boards for free.

Some of us would like to support the boards and in the process get some nifty extra features. Boards doesn't pay for itself, the admins pay for it. Charging a few quid for some extra features isn't going to make them any money, it'll help pay for the hardware/bandwidth.

ecksor

I guess that when you're superman you see Lecks LuThore everywhere.

mr_angry

Originally posted by koneko
it'll help pay for the hardware/bandwidth.

Or another Thai Dinner, if I remember correctly!

Money hungry tycoons? Ha ha ha. Well, its nice to be able to laugh on a Monday morning, isn't it?

BuffyBot

a few money hungry tycoons

I demand more money hungry tycoons for my subscription! I want a custom tycoon!

Moriarty

Will a transport tycoon do?