Dave - Why is advertising bad, especially if it helps cover expenses? If people don't like it, they can ignore it. How hard is that?
Bob Pegram on 12/5/06 8:51 AM, Dave Wooldridge at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 12/5/06 7:19 AM, Björn Eiríksson wrote: > >> I think a add-on tracker for REALbasic would be good. (On that REAL >> would link to). >> Some might say RB Garage is one, but no it does not come close to it, it >> has no versioning, nor any cleanup of obsolete add-ons, making it >> useless both for users and Vendors. IE Products that actually are >> supported get buried deep down there while products that get posted once >> and never more supported contribute to keep the actual products buried >> in the useless pile of items. > > > And who would spend their precious time constantly reviewing the 1,000's of > listings every week to make sure they are not obsolete or unsupported? And > how would one know if a product is still supported without spending some > more extra time to contact the developer? Since many times the product may > no longer be supported but the developer still has their web page up, making > it hard to easily identify what products are still valid. > > RBGarage.com currently relies on the developers who post their listings to > keep them updated and current. It is the developer's responsibility to log > into their RBGarage.com account and remove discontinued products. This is > how VersionTracker.com does it as well. > > I've always been a huge supporter of the REALbasic community, which has been > my driving force to continue offering RBGarage.com as a free online > resource, but I don't make any money from RBGarage.com. Since 2003, > RBGarage.com has only received 1 donation from a kind member, even though > thousands of people use the site on a daily basis. The advertising that the > site currently displays only pays for some of the bandwidth and hosting > fees, so RBGarage.com actually costs me money every month, and yet and I > continue to offer it as a free web site to the REALbasic community. > > So here's my big question to the REALbasic community: > > The only way I could afford to dedicate time to "policing" the RBGarage.com > database to personally weed out obsolete and old listings is if > RBGarage.com's revenue stream increased to the point where the site was > actually making some money instead of losing money. Then I could dedicate > some of the revenue to increased site development. > > The only way I see that happening is if I charge a membership fee to search > RBGarage.com's database. Listings would continue to be free to submit, but > using the site to find helpful items would require a monthly or annual > membership fee. This would also allow me to add more services and features, > such as removing advertising and offering a handy desktop app for searching > and tracking listings on RBGarage.com. > > Would REALbasic developers be willing to pay a membership fee to subscribe > to RBGarage.com??? > > My guess is that everyone's answer will be "no" and that they will want to > see RBGarage.com continue as a free site, yet people will still complain > about the listings (even though it is a free service). > > BJORN: > Please note that my reply is NOT directed at you. Your comments are merely > one of many that get periodically voiced on the mailing lists from various > people about RBGarage.com and so I felt the need to reply to the community > as a whole. > > I gladly welcome any and all feedback on the issue. Please email me > directly with your comments, so as not to clog up the NUG. Thanks! > > Regards, > Dave Wooldridge > RB Garage Webmaster > > ---------------------------------------- > RB Garage - http://www.RBGarage.com > The largest independent online resource > For REALbasic software developers! > ---------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
