What is this with the new <defer...

lazland wrote: When he introduced the Crapcha thing, everybody had a massive moan, and he removed ads from the site (how he made money), and now asks for donations, and I seriously doubt he gets much from these, even to cover his costs, and running a website can be expensive, which I know because I have to pay out of my own pocket for mine, another labour of love. The only solution, as far as I can see, is for the site to run on a sort of subscription basis which would fund tarting it up a bit and essential maintenance. I happily paid a few bucks to Progressive Ears a few weeks back, and if I felt that I could influence what happens here for the overall good, would do so here. In all honesty, I don't blame him for letting it become run down on a financial basis.

I remember M@X preferring us to work for the site than ask us for donations. our work is infinitely more valuable to the cause than our donations (and his supposed profits)

As for PE, it's a very different situation (I also donate there), because they do not have a DB, and when they switched to PE3.0, they had to drop plenty of side affairs to concentrate on forum-only.

Logan wrote: Like I wrote to Sean Trane, because I turned it off, the WYSIWYG post editor does not show up as an option any more. You did have it enabled before. It is no longer an option in the member control panel. Again, the initials stand for What You See Is What You Get. It's a rich text editor that shows you a preview of the finished post and you can paste in rich text, images, hyperlinks...

OK, I'd never have guessed it

siLLy puPPy wrote: If this site was merely a financially based investment then that would make sense as to why that passion is clearly lacking.

Let's see ...

- he does not rate or review any albums
- he does not participate in the forum at all
- he does not implement any new features

... does not seem like he's in it for the music to me.

^^^
bringing back the ads wouldn't help IMHO, if only bringing in revenues.
What PA really needs is a new software technology that would last the next 20 years

MikeEnRegalia wrote: siLLy puPPy wrote: If this site was merely a financially based investment then that would make sense as to why that passion is clearly lacking. Let's see ... - he does not rate or review any albums - he does not participate in the forum at all - he does not implement any new features ... does not seem like he's in it for the music to me.

The site is 21 years old and the more passionate of the two creators was ProgLucky (Ronald Couteure) who has been RIP for 10 to 15 years.

Yeah, M@X made it quite a success for a while: PA climbed to #83 of all music sites circa 2007/8, but it was also his job: he's a website designer/developer.


So he could still care (I still think he does), but he's trapped with the now 20+ technology software, unable to update or upgrade it anymore, without the risk of losing it all.
(Or so he tells us)

As I said above, when PE jumped off their first site, they couldn't import almost anything, because it was self-developed



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