DougDolde
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Will you pay one dollar per month?
Will you pay one dollar per month?
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Yes, with pleasure. I don't read LuLa all that often at present, but whenever I do it is informative and enjoyable. It's a good idea to keep such things in operation.https://luminous-landscape.com/important-news-change-at-luminous-landscape/
Will you pay one dollar per month?
No.https://luminous-landscape.com/important-news-change-at-luminous-landscape/
Will you pay one dollar per month?
Terrible advice! Good luck!i suggest this site do the same thing
We will also be regularly making special offers available from various companies exclusively to members. Often just one of these discount offers will cover the cost of your annual subscription.
Or worse! Subscription details would be a juicy target for hackers. You'd need to have industrial strength security to manage this.$1/month for the privilege to get spammed.
+1I would pay to view that site.
As I would also pay to view GetDPI.
The price is very reasonable. People have become used to freebies. They start thinking that somehow it is their right to have good sites free of charge.It costs time and money to run, moderate and maintain a good site. Free loaders are a plenty.
Well said! :grin:Interesting development. $12 per year is very good value indeed if you like the website but I wouldn't be surprised if the owners have grossly overestimated the number of people likely to cough up. IMO the content isn't compelling enough to bother with the (even very minor) hassle of going through the subscription process, irrespective of the cost. I can imagine a reasonable proportion of the few hundred forum regulars there will subscribe but can't see many others doing so.
I would love to do it in a way but I don't want to see us selling out to venders with people's email. If we can avoid that Jack I'm all in. It would help us but again we want to attract new users as well. Maybe free for 2 months kind of thing. Something we can talk aboutKevin Raber is a businessman first and a photographer second LOL. I think it's a good idea and a smart move for them. And it will be interesting to see how they fare.
Like Guy alluded too, there isn't a lot of money in running a photo-forum site. We just about break even on the costs of running and maintaing this site from our paid advertisers. We get a teeny bit from the Amazon and B&H links that makes up the rest, but since we updated the software and those two links only being on the first page, our click payments from them have decreased significantly. (Bob, look into that! LOL) Other revenue is a handful of you are regularly generous with the donate button and we do appreciate that as it all helps.
I have no doubt our regular usership would be willing to pay $1/month to support us and their passion. The issue becomes attracting and keeping new passionate and active users -- sometimes a membership fee can be a barrier to that.
Regardless, I applaud LuLa management and wish them a lot of success with this new move!