Thank You
Added 2017-12-03 03:09:17 +0000 UTCI wanted to write to say thanks to you all who were the first to support our site. It's incredibly humbling to have people willing to throw something our way so that we can continue doing what we love. Guide updates have been slow this year due to typical life problems, but I do look forward to improving the site and updating for the newer content.
When I looked at our traffic for yesterday, I saw 50% of all ads were blocked. That's a new milestone and shows the trend for the future. It's clear a lot of sites will struggle with that, but people are expecting the ads to be less annoying and more secure. I respect that choice, especially given how much cleaner and faster sites are when ads are out of the picture.
With just 19 people contributing so far, you've enabled me to serve 416 GB of data each month to visitors all around the world, effectively covering the traffic of thousands of people who block and cannot afford to support us in this way.
Thank you and best wishes to you all. I certainly don't want to spam you, but figured I should say something.
Carl
Comments
Heya, I tried to reply a couple of days ago but my tablet couldn't get the response to go through. Yes, people are covering ad blockers' server costs at this stage. Not lost revenue, but ad blocking would no longer be a net loss at this point.
Carl's Sim Guides
2018-05-04 22:07:28 +0000 UTCI've been a diehard fan of your site since the early days of TS3! Your site is still the first I check to see if I should get an expansion or not... and I love browsing your site to see what you've said about older ones :) Just curious, though--how much is this $153/month saving you now, in terms of hosting and all of that? I'd like to hope that we're covering the loss of the "free riders" using adblock, but I'm not sure.
2018-04-02 01:03:26 +0000 UTCIf you used an ad blocker then you could visit the site ad free and then support him here like you are anyway. That's what I do as I'd much rather support through Patreon than have to see ads.
TheLibrarian
2018-03-22 06:01:50 +0000 UTCMy only (small) comment is that I wish I could get your site ads-free since I"m sponsoring you on patreon. That would be prime.
Talene
2018-03-12 23:13:14 +0000 UTCI love your guides, they've been the most helpful to me. I go to your site first whenever I get stuck on something. Great job.
Shannon OHare
2018-02-03 20:51:36 +0000 UTCThank you for your wonderful guides. I'm happy to support you even in this small way. tbh I prefer to use patreon than to see ads :)
TheLibrarian
2018-01-18 20:48:56 +0000 UTC
