keith
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Another forum has gone searching for the pot of gold. Wild camping for motorhomes has now gone down the route of charging an annual subscription.
It will now cost you £15 a year to become a member.
A shame because that site was almost as good as 'fun' although not as friendly. I have seen other funsters on there.
I thought the information on pubs & stops was particularly useful & wonder why we don't have a list on fun for pub stops, everyone else seems to be doing it. If there is one I haven't found it so can someone show me the way to it, if it exists. oh:
This was posted recently:
Quote: Wildcamping has now grown to a size where it requires more of my time than I have spare. (34,000 unique visitor per month - 10,000+ members - nearly 1,000 registered members logged in per day)
I need to be dedicating time each day to handle members emails, removing spam and site maintenance.
I also intend on spending more time developing this site for the members benefit, I am going to upgrade the site to vbulletin version 4, have a custom site theme and develop bespoke features like a searchable database (available on mobile devices).
There will be a yearly subscription for use of certain areas of the site. (classifieds, wild camping locations, etc).
The wildcamping locations section may have limited free member viewing, I am still debating this. There are several pros and cons for this. But I except to trial this.
Community areas will remain free for all to use.
Certain features of the site will be restricted for free members (private messaging, signatures, photo albums, blogs, etc).
I have really struggled to decide what would be the correct amount for a yearly subscription to this site. The problem is I cannot just have the money it needs to be run as a business, I am already self employed so it becomes complicated. All subscriptions will have to go into a business bank account. I am sure their are many members who will have comments to make about this but you do not know my personal circumstances whereas the chartered accountant that has advised me does. At the moment £15.00 (less than 30p per week) seems to be the correct amount, I know this is more than the £10.00 that has been discussed but there are several reasons for this amount been correct.
For members who have purchased a yearly £10.00 subscription there is no change this year, the amount will change next year.
Members who have already donated will have their donations converted to a subscription based on the amount of their donation. Members who have made a significant input into this site will receive a subscription based on this. I will not be announcing the calculation structure of this as it will be quality rather than quantity based, but you can contact me directly if your question relates to your account. Quote
It will now cost you £15 a year to become a member.
A shame because that site was almost as good as 'fun' although not as friendly. I have seen other funsters on there.
I thought the information on pubs & stops was particularly useful & wonder why we don't have a list on fun for pub stops, everyone else seems to be doing it. If there is one I haven't found it so can someone show me the way to it, if it exists. oh:
This was posted recently:
Quote: Wildcamping has now grown to a size where it requires more of my time than I have spare. (34,000 unique visitor per month - 10,000+ members - nearly 1,000 registered members logged in per day)
I need to be dedicating time each day to handle members emails, removing spam and site maintenance.
I also intend on spending more time developing this site for the members benefit, I am going to upgrade the site to vbulletin version 4, have a custom site theme and develop bespoke features like a searchable database (available on mobile devices).
There will be a yearly subscription for use of certain areas of the site. (classifieds, wild camping locations, etc).
The wildcamping locations section may have limited free member viewing, I am still debating this. There are several pros and cons for this. But I except to trial this.
Community areas will remain free for all to use.
Certain features of the site will be restricted for free members (private messaging, signatures, photo albums, blogs, etc).
I have really struggled to decide what would be the correct amount for a yearly subscription to this site. The problem is I cannot just have the money it needs to be run as a business, I am already self employed so it becomes complicated. All subscriptions will have to go into a business bank account. I am sure their are many members who will have comments to make about this but you do not know my personal circumstances whereas the chartered accountant that has advised me does. At the moment £15.00 (less than 30p per week) seems to be the correct amount, I know this is more than the £10.00 that has been discussed but there are several reasons for this amount been correct.
For members who have purchased a yearly £10.00 subscription there is no change this year, the amount will change next year.
Members who have already donated will have their donations converted to a subscription based on the amount of their donation. Members who have made a significant input into this site will receive a subscription based on this. I will not be announcing the calculation structure of this as it will be quality rather than quantity based, but you can contact me directly if your question relates to your account. Quote