This is not going to be a well thought out post and kind of rambling, but I thought I should give you all a heads up.
I think I am done.
I honestly take no joy or interest in writing up crime stories any longer. I have burned out past burning out. I took a break to see if anything would change, and it just hasn't. I don't even check for crime-related stories any longer as I just do not care about them at all.
The lack of articles means a lack of revenue and the lack of revenue means this turns in to a much bigger monthly bill than I want to pay.
But I am in a tough position...l the site has been here so long there is a TON of articles that people may still be interested in and I would hate for them to just vanish. There is also the fact that you all have somewhat of a community here, albeit a shrinking one. I don't want to just turn out the lights and lock the doors on you.
So I'm not quite sure what to do, to be honest. The first thing I will be doing is downgrading our server to lower the hosting costs. I have no idea what that may do to site performance -- if anything at all. I am checking on that now. There's a possibility that just getting the cost down may be enough for me to leave it as is and just write some stuff whenever I feel like it.
There's just so much that needs to be done in regards to a site re-design and a forum upgrade that I just dread it. To the point that if anything to go wrong I would just throw my hands up and walk away from it all as I just don't have the time to mess with it if anything major goes wrong.
So, yeah. That's about it. Not sure what else to say, really. Unless we get some writers to pick up the slack, I have a strong feeling this may be the last year for the site (in its current state) and we may just go down to a forum only based site for the handful of you who still want to use it.
I think I am done.
I honestly take no joy or interest in writing up crime stories any longer. I have burned out past burning out. I took a break to see if anything would change, and it just hasn't. I don't even check for crime-related stories any longer as I just do not care about them at all.
The lack of articles means a lack of revenue and the lack of revenue means this turns in to a much bigger monthly bill than I want to pay.
But I am in a tough position...l the site has been here so long there is a TON of articles that people may still be interested in and I would hate for them to just vanish. There is also the fact that you all have somewhat of a community here, albeit a shrinking one. I don't want to just turn out the lights and lock the doors on you.
So I'm not quite sure what to do, to be honest. The first thing I will be doing is downgrading our server to lower the hosting costs. I have no idea what that may do to site performance -- if anything at all. I am checking on that now. There's a possibility that just getting the cost down may be enough for me to leave it as is and just write some stuff whenever I feel like it.
There's just so much that needs to be done in regards to a site re-design and a forum upgrade that I just dread it. To the point that if anything to go wrong I would just throw my hands up and walk away from it all as I just don't have the time to mess with it if anything major goes wrong.
So, yeah. That's about it. Not sure what else to say, really. Unless we get some writers to pick up the slack, I have a strong feeling this may be the last year for the site (in its current state) and we may just go down to a forum only based site for the handful of you who still want to use it.