kstuebin wrote:<snip>
This whole discussion is pointless anyway because management isn't going to do anything. </snip>
That is really the crux of it isn't it.
Look at the numbers. (And this is a whole lot of guessing on my part.)
According to the Forum home page there are 197000 members and if everyone pays the lowest amount for storage.
197000 registered members * $23/year = $4,531,000 per year income
Yep that is over $4 million a year.
Now I don't know if the number of members are people that have paid or everyone, including those who have trial memberships or have let their memberships lapse.
Even if only a quarter of the members are paying the base amount it is still worth over $1 million per year to the owners, not taking in server/web space cost, but if you are bringing in over a million the costs are most likely a drop in the bucket.
Not bad work, if you want to call what we see from the Administrative side work, if you can get it.
I wish I could get a job that paid me that well.