Well, people are having a TON of difficulty with my blog so it’s likely my account will be terminated on December 17th. If not, cool! I’ll be around. If that DOES happen though-
I’m not going to rebuild here. This site has become an addiction and a chore for me and frankly I’ve got other things to be doing- Making art, finishing the book, setting up my garden, frolicking in the mountains etc. I will absolutely still be Online and I still want to have good times with all of you, so here’s where to find me:
Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/gallusrostromegalus I’ll be posting the Edited and Illustrated Family Lore here, as well as taking art comissions and book pre-orders. This will also be my Primary source of Income until I’ve recovered enough to start minimum wage again, at which point this will still be vitally necessary income for me. I will also be starting a Discord Server associated with Patreon.
You can also find me on Skype under “Gallusrostromegalus” or Discord at #0990 (if you want to add me)
Since tumblr’s nerfed my blog, could you please reblog and spread this around? I’ll keep flogging it until I go becuase I love you all and want to stay in touch if this site goes down.
“why are pillowfort/ao3 asking for money?? Tumblr and LJ are free!!!”
y’all really don’t get how this works, huh?
Look y’all. Bottom line is large websites/web apps are fucking expensive
It’s not like a personal or small business site where you pay $25/mo for a shared hosting package and knock yourself out
You need multiple, dedicated, high-performance servers to handle a service like Tumblr or AO3, or Facebook, or what have you, to keep up with the insane amount of bandwidth and unfathomable amount of data.
Shit cost thousands of dollars a month. And those costs only go up the more users you have. Into the tens of thousands of dollars a month. Someone has to foot the bill for it. And that doesn’t include the salaries of the developers who pour hours of their time into making things function the way they need to.
“but Tumblr used to not have ads!!” you say! “They just got greedy!”
No, they didn’t “just get greedy”. This is how free services work. They aren’t magically able to sustain themselves. At any point. Ever.
Investors see proof of concept during the infancy of a project, and they pour their money– hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars– to 1) help fund the project into maturity. (Maturity = stable performance and a large, growing userbase) and 2) have a seat at the table when big decisions are made
Until that point, you won’t see ads, or be nagged to donate, or forced to pay a fee to access your content. That’s no accident.
Investors eat the cost of running and developing the service, because they know that once that userbase has been established, they can– you guessed it– SELL YOUR DATA TO ADVERTISERS.
They can’t do that until after they have users for advertisers to sell their shit to!
That’s how the investors make their money back, that’s how the service becomes profitable instead of being a giant cash pit.
So for the love of God, can we PLEASE stop slandering sites like AO3, Wikipedia, and now Pillowfort for having the audacity to ask for donations, or for having tiered/paid membership options for additional, non-essential features??
I know there’s a lot of tension after Tumblr’s new policy annouced for December 17th, but reblog this if you aren’t leaving Tumblr so that other blogs can know they aren’t going to be completely alone!
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