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1976_Child

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This is a follow on from the Yeovil game thread:

 

If Steve wants some help, I'm happy to advise. Btw, I don't for a minute think he and his team have legged it with our £5s. Where they have gone wrong is that they have created a very good offering, as evidenced by how popular this site is, but have really, really under priced it. I will start a separate thread on the main board to ask what people would be prepared to pay for an uninterrupted service on match days. Hope people give their input, and Steve takes note and is prepared to re-price the product. The price must be high enough to secure a decent architecture and give Steve and his team an income - beer money probably, but unless they have a reward from their work they might not be totally focused, and yes, they are running a Ltd company - not a student website.

 

How much would you be prepared to pay for an uninterrupted service on this forum?

 

I would be happy to be offered two different subscription levels:

 

1. £5 per year for all boards but not including match threads.

2. £30 per year for match threads as well.

 

Please do indicate what this site is worth to you and how much you would be prepared to spend.

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St Steve

St Steve

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Let us praise God. O Lord...

O Lord...

Ooh, You are so big...

So absolutely huge.

Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.

Forgive us, O Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying, and...

And barefaced flattery.

But You are so strong and, well, just so super.

Fantastic.

 

Amen.

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martyg1950

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I also am involved in this sort of thing for a living, so I know, decent bandwidth costs money, decent hardware costs money. I have no idea how many paid members there are so can't really speculate what the 'beer money' figure should be.

 

That said, I value Saintsweb and as a long distance supporter, it makes me feel closer.

 

So yes, for a more robust infrastructure, I would chip in more.

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Junction 9

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I can only imagine how much the site owners rake in in fivers from this site... surely enough to keep it stable???

 

Good to hear that the possibility of a new server is being looked at.

 

It does make going a goal down all the more frustrating when you cant get on here...

 

Why not just go to the BBC vidiprinter or Sky sports website?

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saint boggy

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upgrade after upgrade has delivered no improvement in the matchday service. It p1sses me off that in this day and age of high speed broadband that a page takes 20 seconds to load (if it loads at all). It's a joke!....We were playing Yeovil Town on a Tuesday night ffs. i bet there wasnt THOUSANDS of members all logged on at once......probably 4-500 at most.....a server as 'advanced' as the one we have been promised SHOULD be able to cope and not have a ruddy spaz attack!!

i can listen to games on Radio Solent, but like to come on here and see whats going on at the same time..but it is REALLY getting my back up....we haven't even got the member list at the bottome like we used to have (removed to lessen the burden on the system!!)....what else is gonna be 'stripped' to make things 'flow' better during peak times?

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saint_stevo

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£5 is enough and will cover all that is required.

 

As Steve mentioned on the other thread, the DB server and the Application are currently on the same box, they are looking at separating these.

 

and 1976_child, your posts are mainly inane drivel, so not sure your likely to be taken up on any offer

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Saint_clark

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Check out www.footballforums.net

They have a few basic adverts, much higher traffic than this place and it has crashed once since I joined two years ago - and that was when Lampard "scored" V Germany.

They do that with little income. A large number of people on here paying a fiver a year should be more than enough to get this place running properly.

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I just don't frigging get it.

 

People b*tch and complain even though their post counts are way up there, but most of them wouldn't even think about volunteering to help unless there was something in it for them.

 

People whine and moan about the five quid for a whole year but happily sink their pints and p*ss far more than that against the wall every weekend.

 

Yes, there's some fixing to do and they need to do it ASAP because many of us are a touch frustrated, but FFS people stop moaning about everything.

 

Pay your fiver to play and offer constructive suggestions, or don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.

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Saint_clark

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I just don't frigging get it.

 

People b*tch and complain even though their post counts are way up there, but most of them wouldn't even think about volunteering to help unless there was something in it for them.

 

People whine and moan about the five quid for a whole year but happily sink their pints and p*ss far more than that against the wall every weekend.

 

Yes, there's some fixing to do and they need to do it ASAP because many of us are a touch frustrated, but FFS people stop moaning about everything.

 

Pay your fiver to play and offer constructive suggestions, or don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.

 

I pay a fiver for someone else to run a forum because I don't have a clue how I would do it, not because I think I can do it better. If I could do it better i'd be the one getting paid.

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CanadaSaint

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I pay a fiver for someone else to run a forum because I don't have a clue how I would do it, not because I think I can do it better. If I could do it better i'd be the one getting paid.

 

Well, I suspect you'd need another job alongside it because it doesn't strike me as being anything like a gold mine.

 

I don't have a clue how to do this kind of thing, either - never mind find the time to do it. And that's precisely why I'm very reluctant to criticize.

 

Database error when you have paid £5 to post on an internet forum, not good enough in my opinion and that is why I have not renewed

 

But then you're not helping to find a solution, are you? I don't mean to pick on you, Genk, but there are numerous people b*tching who haven't paid anything anyway.

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£5 is enough and will cover all that is required.

 

As Steve mentioned on the other thread, the DB server and the Application are currently on the same box, they are looking at separating these.

 

and 1976_child, your posts are mainly inane drivel, so not sure your likely to be taken up on any offer

 

This.

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£5 is enough and will cover all that is required.

 

As Steve mentioned on the other thread, the DB server and the Application are currently on the same box, they are looking at separating these.

 

and 1976_child, your posts are mainly inane drivel, so not sure your likely to be taken up on any offer

 

Yes a £5.00 is a fair price for a fair service

and as for 1976_child thanks but no thanks ie Lambert out

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dronskisaint

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It's worth a pound a month to me but easier to round down to £10 - If I ever don't think I want to renew then I can do the other thing.

 

I think it's good value...it doesn't stop me from going to the other sites but I generally find the level of knowledge, humour & intellect higher on here....it does however seem to attract the negativos (you know who you are!) & it's got to be worth £10 to them to vent their gloom!:p

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lordswoodsaints

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In future, £0.00

 

It's now a very poor site and not worth £5 of my money.

 

I'm with you,I wasn't going to renew this season but did so cos it's only a fiver but I wish I hadn't now and probably won't be next year unless some big changes are made.

The forum is too sterile and the quality has gone downhill,a lot of members have moved on or have been excluded and the controversial stuff just doesn't exist anymore.

This is due to the over the top fear of being sued.

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Boris Karloff

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There seem to be some people who are addicted to this site and clearly they would pay a fair amount. There are probably many others like me who come here fairly regularly and find the musings of the likes of Alpine incredibly tiresome and could quite happily live without it. I didn't renew last year because I rarely felt the need to post more than three times a day. If they made it £5 for everyone I would probably pay. But that would be as much as I would pay for a site that is already fairly laden with ads.

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The9

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This is a follow on from the Yeovil game thread:

 

If Steve wants some help, I'm happy to advise. Btw, I don't for a minute think he and his team have legged it with our £5s. Where they have gone wrong is that they have created a very good offering, as evidenced by how popular this site is, but have really, really under priced it. I will start a separate thread on the main board to ask what people would be prepared to pay for an uninterrupted service on match days. Hope people give their input, and Steve takes note and is prepared to re-price the product. The price must be high enough to secure a decent architecture and give Steve and his team an income - beer money probably, but unless they have a reward from their work they might not be totally focused, and yes, they are running a Ltd company - not a student website.

 

How much would you be prepared to pay for an uninterrupted service on this forum?

 

I would be happy to be offered two different subscription levels:

 

1. £5 per year for all boards but not including match threads.

2. £30 per year for match threads as well.

 

Please do indicate what this site is worth to you and how much you would be prepared to spend.

 

I get an "uninterrupted service" thanks. Cunningly I choose to either go to the games or not pay the remotest attention to them, so I'm not often on here when lots of others are.

 

That said, the matchday info stuff probably does need to be hosted separately.

 

Oh, and great site though it is, even a fiver looks steep in this great big world of free information.

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stthrobber

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There are plenty of free options out there. You can drag your knuckles along the ground on the Ugly and 606 for starters. There's Plastic Saints and I think I'm registered on one called Saintsworld or similar.

 

Whilst many of you might not think you should have to pay to post here, the guys that run it have to pay costs for the servers and for the number of people that use this forum to donate a fiver a year is nothing.I don't post much, but I'm happy to help them with a measly fiver each year.

 

If you can't or won't spare a fiver, then really you either live by the constraints that free access here gives you, or you join the juveniles on the other free services. For all the whingers that moan about this site and its downtime, and the methods of moderation, well, even Facebook has downtime, and you have read the forum rules, so you shouldn't then moan about them if you come here.

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At the moment I would pay very little. I am actually regretting renewing my subscription.

 

I respect that the owners/mods are a little damned if they do/damned if they don't but quite simply this forum is not reliable. The 5 pounds was paid to help ensure reliability. Therefore it's not worth it.

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I cannot fathom why amyone would pay money to post on a fan's mesage board. There is no added value whatsoever that the owners of SW give their customers that cannot be found on countless other mesage boards for free. In fact they are giving a far inferior service as their bedroom server falls over far more often than the corporate infrastructure provided by people like fansnetwork.

 

The whole value of a message board is in its members and what they post (!) and so if everyone who posted here made the decision to move en masse to one of the other 2 or 3 Saints related boards out there the only difference there would be is that those they see fit to pay subs to SW would be £5 better off.

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£5 is fair enough.

 

I am more than entertained by the highly intellectual banter and conversation that arises from the forums.

 

£30 for the match threads is completely barmy. 80% of it is someone posting 'corner to Saints ' or 'Harding takes throw in'.

What nutter would pay extra for that.

 

Also, the saucy photos that get PM'd to me by the more adventerous ladies of this forum makes the day go quicker.

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