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@Velocio
Something weird has happened this month.
Recently (last 5 months) the adverts have only been covering an ever reducing portion of the costs, in February that was as low as around 60% of the costs... which basically meant the forum spent the month in deficit (from advertising) and so I raided the forum coffers to cover the costs (not much gets donated usually so seeing more going out than on average comes in is hard).
But this month (March) the adverts have raised about 90% of the costs. That's a significant increase in advertising revenue... but I don't know why.
I'd like to think that having the CDN and removing javascript for guests has speeded things up so much that this is why people stayed around, clicked adverts, etc. But honestly... I've no idea.
Anyhow, just wanted to share the happy news that even though it might be an anomaly, the forum almost paid it's way this month, and with the donations for the CDN, this month actually produced an overall profit that can be put back into the coffers.
This is a damn good achievement, so I want to say thanks to all for the donations and support... and for those guests who will never read this, thanks for the advert clicks*.
Cheers
David