RIP Orochinagi?
In the last 28 days:
- The website had about 8000 page views.
- The Facebook page actually counts how many people clicked, read, interacted and this totals to 130,000.
- Twitter has 1299 followers with 34,449 impressions in the last week (so 120k per month?).
The website hosting service for ON will expire on the 19th May 2016.
To renew it for another 4 years will cost £381.38/ 471.98 Euro / 538.19 US Dollars
I can afford to pay for this. But when we have the social network accounts, what’s the point?
The advertising revenue brings in around £60 a year so it pays for about half the cost, and that revenue is never guaranteed…
So who needs this site?
Even typing this out takes double the time of just bashing out a few lines on Facebook and then copying and pasting to twitter.
Although, Facebook does seem to have some control over who gets to see what…
There are the forums to consider, but people seem more worried about keeping souvenirs rather than actually using it.
I’m not convinced it’s worth the time and effort to renew the site, when we could just use social media and let them take the ad revenue for using their resources.
However, of course, I’m open to suggestion (and cash helps too).
Other arguments include control over content and archives, but in fact the website already broke the limit for files and caused server slowdown, – you’ll find many images and posts from years ago have been deleted. This will have to continue to keep the site from being locked down!
Tell me what you think via the poll! Is there something I forgot to consider? Leave a comment!
Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.And if you want us to just do it without thinking, here’s the donation button. If we do not renew the site, all donations will be refunded.
More stats
Disk Space usage:
public html 4,1 gb, sql 765mb = 4,954.57 MB total disk space used.
Bandwidth:
March 2016 7.1 gb
Feb 2016 7.63 gb
Dec 2015 8.62 gb
Ratings
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(5.00 out of 5)
- Kani Doraku
About Oyaji
I would miss the ability to check the site and reminisce – But I also log on every week or so and read it, like now! This and The MadMan’s cafe are the only two gaming sites I will actively type into Google rather than clicking spam just because it’s in my Favcebook feed.
Good points as always, I’ll keep them in mind 🙂
Facebook had a forum feature at one point and then made it a paid for service. Hmmmmmm… meh
I voted to keep the site alive and would like to explain why.
The development of social networks, streaming services and websites offering specialized services for images, audio, video and text on demand changed the face of the internet, and it’s true that websites seem less important than they once were, because that’s what put you on the map back then. A website and its associated forum were your online backbone. Streamlined possibilities, ease of use for massive access, money saving, so far so good.
However, I strongly dislike this trend of being only in the immediacy of the present moment, and systematically posting content on a third party service over which we have no control (a point I won’t develop here though). As soon as things need to be archived, or a topic properly discussed and developped, it’s easy to realize the limitations of those 3rd party tools. Twitter, for example, as nice as it can sometimes be, promotes goldfish attention span and quickly becomes a clotted mess. If you wish to develop an idea, you need to flood the TL. You can’t message many recipients unless they already follow you, because it will eat up your ririduclously short character space. And let’s not talk about archiving. Who said what where? Oh boy.
Overall, those tools work really well within their designed functional scope, but we should be aware of what that scope is. Some try to adress their user’s expectations for wider usage and functionalities, but it can quickly become a cumbersome mess (Facebook…).
Nowadays I think of a website as a central point, the mothership integrating all the feeds from external services, while providing an orderly storage for the important stuff that should pass the test of time, a way to anchor these things, and aggregate informations and reactions that are otherwise lost into the oblivion of a TL because you weren’t looking at the right time. The same way, I think dedicated forums will alway provide a unique way for communities to interact. Forums proved they are an enduring and essential format.
It’s true that I don’t visit the site too often, but I still do for a reason.
I don’t know man, I guess I’m all oldschool and shit, because i’ve been a webdesigner, webmaster, forum admin/moderator myself. As the ON webmaster you know in practice what’s needed, and what’s not, so it’s your decision.
Well this is rapidly becoming an essay, I could write more but hopefully you’ll get my point. Available for discussion of course.