No Access to Site
Submitted: Monday, Jan 14, 2013 at 19:38
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Member - Rod N (QLD)
What is going on with site access. I just spent about 10 minutes or more (5-15 EST) trying to get on and got several different error messages. I went to other forums, read and answered several posts and EO was still not responding. This has been happening on and off for quite awhile. Are you fiddling again David? I am starting to wonder if is worth paying to be a member with such flaky
forum. Not happy Jan.
Reply By: Mick O - Monday, Jan 14, 2013 at 20:09
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 at 20:09
Did you make any enquiries of the office Rod? Perhaps you may get a quicker response or answer by sending David an email direct. The EO site is a lot more than just the
forum (as I notice you use the "My position" and Blog features which don't exist in many, if not most, generic public fora). I've been on since 1630 EDT and doing a bit of blog-cleaning and haven't noticed anything similar to what you've experienced. I was having a poke around in the "Contact Us" section at the bottom of the
forum page and thought this might be of interest in respect to the
membership fee. It may also help to put things into perspective a bit when considering that EO isn't a generic system hosted templated (and cheap to run)
forum like many of the others, rather a unique, purpose built, comprehensive website and reference system built from scratch and to purpose by a husband and wife team.
"You would be surprised at how much
infrastructure, development expertise, time and costs are associated with operating such a large, dynamic, complex website as ExplorOz.com. The advertising income we derive still only covers about 50% of our operation costs, with the remainder of the costs being covered through our online
shop, ad sales in
classifieds, and
membership subscriptions. Whilst our operating costs are high, we work very hard to minimise our administration expenses and don't exhibit at shows, run print or tv advertising, or use fancy marketing. Staff resources are limited to just 3 people on payroll, with the remainder of work performed by volunteers."
Give David a hoy. I'm sure he'll have the answers you seek.
Cheers Mick
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