Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Chiming in to say:
(1) I totally trust the Geekies to evaluate the options and make the best choice for our needs/technical demands;
(2) I plan to kick in money as needed;
(3) the $2,400/year plan does sound like something that could change the culture of the board;
(4) but it might be the best choice [see point (1) for my feelings on how to determine best choice]; and
(5) this ought to be first -- Kristen gets nothing but hearty thanks from me for busting her ass for us. Thank you!
I guess I just feel like the non-Stompy techies are being slighted somehow.
Frankly, Lyra Jane, I wasn't slighting anyone. I don't even know who's a Stompy and who's not, other than ita and DX. And from what I see, the Stompies are consulting with all of the Geekies in the community to come up with a solution. I don't see anyone having a problem with this.
Please don't assign to the entire community a problem you appear to have with the way I phrased something.
16.2 GB a month averages to 51.78 Kbps.
Could you explain the math, Tom? I would have thought that the translation was GB/month ~= Kbps*30*24*60*60 / 1000000
What am I missing?
8b = 1B
D'ohh. OK. On their website, where they talk about bandwidth, they talk about bytes not bits, so I assumed kbps was also bytes.
I'm unsure how the culture of the board changes by the amount we spend to keep it live.
I'm a little nervous about whether we can come up with the entire $2400 for a year up front. Speaking for myself, I'd be happy pledging (say) $5/month, but sad as this is, I couldn't give $60 right now, and I think I can safely say I'm not the only Buffista who's kinda broke.
2400/100 regular posters = $24.
IJS.
I think in the long term a $200/month fee might become a problem for fundraising, but in the near term? NSM.
Well, I'm assuming that some regular posters won't be able to give at all.
The thing is, and I speak from experience here, it only makes a difference if we let it.
If disagreements start being peppered with accusations of "freeloader" or "just cuz you gave money to the server doesn't mean you can run roughshod over everybody else"- then the culture rapidly will take a nosedive into unpleasant divisiveness.
But, like all other community standards, if we're vigilant of ourselves, it may cause some intermittent hiccups, but no substantive change.