Wow, those ads are annoying.

[Kenneth Ashland]

Methinks that's about a year we're set for.

;D

[Justin]

Yes it is 12 months that those kewl people have paid for this place to ad-free.

[Joseph Mayek]

12 months if the VP doesn't eat them all up! LOL

[wereastbill]

I should fix that...

[Ivaret]

You're jealous of the potato!!!

[Webmonkey]

Shame there isn't some way to spend 2 credits or something.

You can spend two credits.

Each purchase donation is technically 7 credits, and 7 credits buys 1 'batch' of 50,000 page views.

I could either spend two batches of credits on one month and get 100,000 page views (Twice the normal 50K) but those views don't 'roll over' to the next month.

Or I could spend two credits, up to two months ahead for 50K views a piece. Currently I've already used some of the credits to do this, so October and November are 'paid for', with 56 credits in the kitty.

56 divided by 7 is 8, so after November is used up, (and again, assuming we don't choose to spend more than 1 batch of credits per month) we'll have December, January, February, March, April, May, June and July covered.

Can I just say that's awesome!

How many views are we going through a month currently?

Well the free counter that is posted on the left hand toolbar isn't the 'Pro' version (paid version) so it only gives me seven day breakdowns of statistics, not a full 30 days, but it's pretty easy to estimate if you take the last seven days for example.

In the last seven days (last I checked a few minutes ago) there have been 12,666 page views. *satan fingers*

12666 X 4 weeks = 50664

So we can infer that there have been approximately six or seven hundred more views than our package covered (and this day isn't over yet).

With October generally being a big month for us (and a 31 day month) and our board usage and membership growing every day, I expect that we will see a similar situation during October as we did this month, with us running out of that first batch of views before the end of the month again. Though I have not had the ability to trend board usage through the rest of the holiday months, I expect it to dwindle a little bit as people take time off for the holidays to travel, visit family, etc. This could be offset entirely by bored students on winter vacation auto-refreshing every 15 minutes tho, so I don't know, lol...

If any of you are interested in taking a look at the site statistics in more detail, Click Here or just click on the View Site Stats link at the bottom of the Quick Links toolbar on the left of the site.

Any other questions, let me know!

[Shakir Movre']

So as I am understanding this more and more.

We are currently using just over the first increment of 50K views and we get a couple of days worth of Ads maybe, maybe not depending on actual numbers.

At what level of average use will the second increment be utilized?

[Webmonkey]

Not sure. I suppose when people complain loud enough to spend 'em.

For me I would say if we get three weeks into the month and are starting to go over we should consider it.

[Shakir Movre']

I was thinking about the same, however I am just the end user here.

But in my opinion, "Make it so!"

[Shakir Movre']

However, some of the Ads are quite amusing....

Goth Dating Services
Vampire Clothing

[Justin]

Because, Technically 4 weeks equals 28 days, and there are 2 sometimes 3 more days then that. I calculated over the last 6 days not counting today (since it isn't over with) that in a 30 day month we could easily reach 57k views.

[Kenneth Ashland]

BIG THANKS

to all of those who donated towards the board/website fund.

We can do quite a bit when we work together.

[Shakir Movre']

I too would like to thank all those who allowed me to annoy them enough to give what they could to this fund.

Thanks again.

[Webmonkey]

Yeah, thanks to everyone who gave a buck or two, and to Hans for jingling the can around!