Shacknews in Trouble
With the recent slow-but-steady crash in Internet advertising trends, its left the ShugaShack crew in a bit of trouble due to significantly decreased funds. Today, sCary (Steve Gibson) posted an item requesting some assistance in keeping the Shack afloat:
Many of you guys probably saw this coming. Well this day is here. After carefully evaluating the financial situation surrounding this website we're in an economical jam. Money that was contractually owed to us got yanked out from under our nose and we got burned pretty good. Shack, myself, and Maarten need your help. Specifically donations. If you've ever spent a few hours here and had a great time and thought "Damn these guys deserve to get $ for this work!" then here you go.Fortunately, QGL (and AusGamers) doesn't (yet :) depend on any external revenue streams to continue providing our web services (thanks to WebCentral) - I wonder if we were in a similar situation how many people would donate cash? |
12:47pm 07/03/01 Permalink
id donate fiddy fi cen, id donate more but some c*** banned my ip in irc
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01:00pm 07/03/01 Permalink
id donate cash n shiyt if u got some decent ppl to updat n post msgs on da msg board and also if there was more porn (hardcor)_ and also if there was free stuf to be given away on durin the weeks or woteva and i would usually win this thingz and also if ther was if i oculd run the plac how i wantd it and ppl to bring me food for doin stuff n also if ther wads mor ppl that did cool stuff round ere and also if i could get fasty dloads to the place fadster than anyone else so i would and my computer was connectd to qlgl then i would donate
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02:56pm 07/03/01 Permalink
Mental patient your my new favorite player..
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04:10pm 07/03/01 Permalink
Serves him right for leaving a games company to run a website ;p
But seriously, I can understand and would/have happily supported sites that say "Hey, no more ads, just donations", like Penny-Arcade. But, alas, the shack is keeping ads. From the sounds of things, the donations are just going to make up the five-figure USD debt that they have, and are in no way going to fix them long term. Which raises the question - if SomethingAwful can get $3,000US a month with its one-unique-hit-per-day formula, how much must the 'Shack be getting? And then, how much of that must be just thrown away on useless stuff for them to be tens of thousands of dollars in debt? The OldManMurray response covers it well
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04:24pm 07/03/01 Permalink
i understand that PA though gets revenue through other things like the sale of tshirts, books, theyre comics in magazines etc etc so it quite isnt the same thing as shack..
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05:34pm 07/03/01 Permalink
i thought trog was leading up to his new poll ....
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08:25pm 07/03/01 Permalink
I would give 2 dorrah....
or if ur lucky tree fiddy=) nah seriously i would donate some ammount of money =) sif we wouldnt..... |
03:50pm 08/03/01 Permalink
i reckon we have a trial run to see if donting helps.
instead of an "save qgl fund" itll be "lets all buy freewheelin a new pc fund" im sure we (you) could scrape up a few thousand bux for this trial run. if this works, we can be assured that if qgl ever needs support from us, itll be there. ive donated $4 to this fund already. please support this worthy cause. |
04:10pm 08/03/01 Permalink
