Re: >>> VOTE!!!! Ideas To Help Blur Busters!
Posted: 16 Feb 2022, 20:34
maybe live chat in forum?
Who you gonna call? The Blur Busters! For Everything Better Than 60Hz™
https://forums.blurbusters.com/
For chat, a Discord channel is being considered, but we need to expand our moderator team before we allow live chat -- the forum is already pretty high-overhead for just a team of only 3 active moderators. Adding chat is a hot potato at the moment.
Chief Blur Buster wrote: ↑23 Mar 2019, 15:49Blur Busters has recently deployed new advertisements at http://www.blurbusters.com
I'm trying to keep them non-intrusive and gentle.
As Blur Busters grows, it gets more expensive to operate...
Media Content, Research, Invent New Motion Tests, Invent New Products, Help Other Web Reviewers, Trips To Cover Conventions, Help Display Industry, Advocacy For High-Hz, Push The Refresh Rate Race, Etc, Etc.
Ideas
Now BlurBusters.com becoming a more mainstream website, is considering several options like
- Adding advertisements to these Forums
- Adding a Patreon style system to remove advertisements -- similiar to sites like AVSFORUM and ArsTechnica
- Etc.
About Patreon Style Systems: Many media websites such as Linus TechTips as well as ArsTechnica and others have their own respective "subscription" style systems or "Patreon" style systems that optionally lets you remove advertisements as well as get early VIP access to content. I'm NOT going to paywall the main media website (content will be freely viewable, though early-access options may be considered), just trying to find ideas to balance things out in a way fans are happy with.
About Amazon Affiliate links: For the last few years, Blur Busters have often posted Amazon links, as Blur Busters uses the Amazon Affiliate system. This helps pays for the costs of operating Blur Busters. Many users willingly appreciate this because they understand Blur Busters needs to pay for the costs of operations, but I totally understand some users hate them.
About Ad Blockers: No worries! I don't mind if some of you use an ad blocker or such, and clicking on links is purely optional, but I want to give users the option to support Blur Busters the way they would prefer.
VOTE on this poll: Appreciate your vote. You can select multiple boxes at the same time -- though please vote only one per checkbox per person...
Thank you!
UPDATE:
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Also a dark mode would be really nice.
I think we need to add a more intuitive editing, as now, I'm responding to your post entirely quoting you, but beginners don't know how to edit a post, as a result, it turns out to be a very long post with repeated answers.Chief Blur Buster wrote: ↑02 Mar 2022, 13:38For chat, a Discord channel is being considered, but we need to expand our moderator team before we allow live chat -- the forum is already pretty high-overhead for just a team of only 3 active moderators. Adding chat is a hot potato at the moment.
Other forums are impressed at how much we're achieving with so little, in such an (on average) such a well-behaved forum. Some complain about moderating styles of the various different forums (our forum, our rules), but that goes with any forum. I get a lot of PMs of compliments about how (relatively-speaking) well these forums are run -- far more than those who complain.
Hello,Robbo99999 wrote: ↑02 Oct 2022, 07:17This is very loosely related to the topic of this thread, but I didn't want to set up a whole new thread for it: how come there's not been an update / new article on the main website for nearly a year now?
https://blurbusters.com/
I mean I'm interested in High Hz technology and use it myself as a gamer, is there not any relevant news worth creating articles in the last year? I suppose I'd be curious to use this website to see where the industry is heading & how it's progressing & what the current best monitors are, etc.
Try again, I changed CloudFlare settings recently. There may have been a DNS propagation issue, is it still happening? Quit your browser and restart browser, since DNS can be cached by Google Chrome for a long time.sherifmagdy32 wrote: ↑19 Oct 2022, 08:45@Chief Blur Buster I just noticed that google DNS for some reason blocks access to the forum not sure if it is just me but I made some tests and found out that it was google DNS if this is the case you might want to check this out and fix it as soon as possible.