Comments/questions regarding new ownership and upcoming changes
Any comments or questions? We might not be able to tell you everything right now but we'll do what we can.
Copy of Ownership announcement, for posterity:
Quote: Dear TWF Members,
The Webmaster Forums is pleased to announce that the site has been sold to a new owner! The new owner wishes to remain anonymous at this time but I can assure you that this is a friendly person who has the best interests of the forums at heart. He has appointed me to manage the site as I see fit. I will remain the head administrator and manager of TWF.
Now that the ownership has been finalized there will be many changes and improvements in the forums. Our first priority was to move the site to a new dedicated server. The new sever is significantly faster than the old setup. You will notice a significant improvement in performance now that the forums have been moved. Sometime in the next few weeks we will also be upgrading our vBulletin software to the latest version.
The next step will be a major overhaul of the site over three phases. Phase I will involve the introduction of some revenue generating methods. Under the new ownership agreement it will be necessary for us to pay hosting and other costs. We are committed to keeping advertising and other revenue generating methods as unobtrusive as possible. We hope that you will support us as you see fit.
Phase II of the overhaul will be a complete redesign of the forums and the addition of several new features and vBulletin customizations. We welcome any comments or feedback you have on the future look and functionality of TWF.
Phase III, to be introduced in 2006, will consist of a content portal with articles and other features. The details of this phase have yet to be finalized but we hope that this will become a valuable resource of the webmaster community.
On behalf of the new owner and the TWF team, I would like to thank you for your ongoing participation and support. This site would be nothing without you.
Thank you,
Megan Jack
TWF Manager/Administrator
Nintendo posted this at 03:48 — 23rd October 2005.
He has: 2 posts
Joined: Oct 2005
See that empty spot up there? Place AdSense/Yahoo ads or some banner there!! Why have it empty when it can make money??!!
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Greg K posted this at 03:59 — 23rd October 2005.
He has: 2,145 posts
Joined: Nov 2003
There is usually ads there, they just have not been started back up since the forum was moved to the new servers. There will be ads again.
-Greg
Megan posted this at 14:41 — 23rd October 2005.
She has: 11,421 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
Actiually, I think I can put an adsense banner in there for now until we get the ad system set up properly. That's going to take awhile because we'll have to finalize our pricing and contact advertisers and such. I am also going to be putting google ads on the guest user pages today.
We will also be implementing premium memberships sometime within the next few weeks.
Megan
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bja888 (not verified) posted this at 05:54 — 23rd October 2005.
They have: 5,633 posts
Joined: Jan 1970
I will be glad to give what i can to the forums!
Renegade posted this at 10:13 — 23rd October 2005.
He has: 3,022 posts
Joined: Oct 2002
Great, we'll have all of your money and physical possessions.
Since you have no personality or a life, we can't have those 
JeevesBond posted this at 14:41 — 23rd October 2005.
He has: 3,956 posts
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Oh Renegade, that's the funniest thing I've heard this week!
Never a truer word spoken in jest...
demonhale posted this at 16:19 — 23rd October 2005.
He has: 3,278 posts
Joined: May 2005
so whats with the premium membership?
Megan posted this at 16:37 — 23rd October 2005.
She has: 11,421 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
We haven't ironed out the details on that yet but basically you'd be able to pay a small yearly fee (probably around £10-20/$20-30 US) for some extra features like more PM space, ad-free browsing, things like that. There will be a couple of levels that might get phased in over time. Premium members would also have a badge under their names - you might have seen this in other forums. Just a way to make a little bit of money and allow members to support the forum. Regular members would not see any change in permissions or features, although new features may only be available to premium members.
It's important to understand that this is not about buying more features so much as showing your support for a forum you find valuable. I am a premium member at two other sites and I appreciate the opportunity to support their efforts.
Megan
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