Re:You click a link to a news site, to read an article that ...
by Blackthorn on Monday December 06, 2021 @01:42AM
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> For a lot of people 10 dollars a month isn't cheap.
I'm aware of this, but you need to keep in mind that we were one of the largest wikis on Wikia (in the top 30 iirc). That's the only reason it cost $10/month.
Most of the wikis on Wikia were tiny, got small traffic, and could have probably been hosted with mine on my VM without even affecting mine.
Re:You click a link to a news site, to read an article that ...
by Washuu on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:29AM
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The last metric that I calculated to host a small wiki on Gamepedia was about $3 USD per month. It is probably a bit higher than that now. That included costs for hosting through AWS next to large wikis like Minecraft Wiki that would easily be a large majority of the monthly costs.(Game updates would vastly skew the monthly costs for each of the large wikis.)
Re:You click a link to a news site, to read an article that ...
by iamacyborg on Monday December 06, 2021 @08:12AM
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It was always fun seeing the traffic spikes during large game updates though
For me - no problem. I have a few side projects and I shell out around 15 - 25 Euros each month.
But I know a lot of people who would love to do stuff like that and have no way of at least being easily reimbursed by the community for their efforts.
A community of 50 people could be financing this with 20 cents each per month.
But as privacy intrusive advertising became the norm no solution ever grew enough to become feasible for the masses.
I remember the flattr button. I used flattr for a while. But in the end I stopped.
tl;dr 10 bucks are not cheap to anybody. I wish easy micropayments were a thing.