Can't remember, but I'll check tonight.
(if I haven't replied by 20:00 UTC/GMT (16:00 Quebec), feel free to poke me)

There were still a handful of outstanding potential donators, but I think the affiliate pot is enough to make up the difference (although as I mentioned it would be good to use that as a starting balance for Teh Bank Account when I manage to sort that out, which will therefor go towards next years costs).

So yeah, I'll check tonight how things are going and probably do another thermometer thing.

(octopus) (beep) (eep)

 

(yin)

My emotranslaticom is disfunctioning, can you repeat that in English?

I think he means "what are the scores on the doors?"

:Y

Something like that ^ .

 

(it made sense at the time, something along the lines of "squid levels, beep beep snoozing Pete, is it all balanced?" ) :Y

A little short with the TD Affiliate Pot excluded, but otherwise fine...

Hmm...

Been thinking about next year, and being a little short of the total this year.

We now get sufficient enough Guests visiting on a regular basis that it might pay for us to add some Google Adwords (or other advertising scheme) that shows for the Guests. Might help supplement the income a bit more.

They'll be hidden for registered users, of course, like.

Yay? Nay?

How about charging for membership? Perhaps some kind of tiered system depending on how much you pay?

 

(Sorry, couldn't resist. Personally i have no issues with selling out the Guests with google ad words.)

What would be a better idea would be charging for the privelege of being allowed to use certain words within posts. And Peter could bung in a fiver for every time he asks about something he wants which sounds impossible, and it turns out it's all because he doesn't have a phone line.

That's already in place, just you don't know about it.

:'(

I endorse this idea.

 

I also endorse Matts Google ads for Guests idea.

Someone with better organisational skills than myself should go sign up for a Google AdSense account and tell me what you need to inject into the pages (HTML, Javascript, etc) of the pages so I can add it to the pages.

I vote Peter.

Is the referal link still added to links posted? I'm sure it was then got removed, why not put it back for all those of us who forget to use it.

 

Probly worth bookmarking it too.
(added to my list of things to forget to do later).

Sorry, sorry sorry. I still haven't sorted the amazon affiliates thing. I will!

Good idea and one I also endorse :)

W3rd.

It's probably a good idea, as long as we never have to see them.

Hmmm, just to make things clearer: the £427 excludes any referral pots.

TradeDoubler requires a bank account, and I didn't want to put it all in my account until I got around to sorting out a Teh Bank Account, so simplest solution is to use that amount as the starting balance for next year, once I actually get the account setup.

Um, I'll do a diagram:




And that's also excluding the Amazon pot which milko is sorting out very soon, yes? :)


IOW, I don't think we should/need to bother with the AdSense stuff.


However, we should definitely either:

1) just restore the auto-referral links.

2) write a filter that adds a "teh referral link" option after any normal link, so people have a choice which one to follow.

3) same as 2, but in reverse (so main link is referral, and there's a "non referral" placed after it).