Hey y'all,
In case you're wondering what happened, one of my articles blew up and got like a stupethousand hits in a short matter of hours, which hammered the host server into submission, so they put a temporary block on the site.
I signed up for a service that will hopefully alleviate the stress away from the host, and right now we're just waiting for it to kick in. By the time you're able to read this, it'd probably be solved already and the block lifted. So I'm just writing this to inform what happened.
I've known for a while that sooner or later I'd have to upgrade to a dedicated server or something, though, which costs money. I've joked about monetizing the forum in the past, and I'd rather pay for the forum myself than have it littered with ads, but serious question this time. If I put one ad banner at the very bottom of the page (like, maybe right above the "hosted by artboiled" image), would it ruin the Match Cut experience for anyone? Obviously you'd have to disable adblock for this site. Because I think with the frequency of the users and the number of threads we have, one ad should be enough, but I don't want even that one ad to be a dealbreaker to any of the regs.
Lemme know. I'm just spitballing.
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