Re: [libreoffice-website] Nabble - is it worth it?

On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 10:27 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hi Drew,
>
> thanks a lot for all your work on Nabble! (And of course, all your other 
> work ;)
>
> drew wrote on 2011-09-26 04:33:
> > 1 - a few weeks back Nabble switched from a totally free (as in Ad Free)
> > service to one that now includes Ads. This is a bit of a problem IMO.
> > [For instance having a MSO on the bottom of a page with LibO
> > header..well, that is just darn right unseemly]
>
> To me, there are two easy options:
>
> 1. We invest $125 for the ad-free service. Sounds like not too much 
> money, and we could have a vote on the steering-discuss list about that.

It looks to be that $125.00 would turn ads off for around 18 months,
assuming the increase in usage continues at the same rate I've seen to
date.

> 2. Look for another service, maybe something self-hosted.

> My idea would be to combine #1 and #2. First, invest the money to have 
> no time pressure, but then in the mid-term, investigate other solutions 
> and use these.

That makes the most sense IMO.

//drew


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