The new Year will inavoidably bring many changes - and most of them, we assure, will be for the better! Every week the newest Features from the SMF-forum are imported into our Forum, to make the overall use of the site more comfortable! We also keep installing new board-sections - Content, free and for Premium-members, is constantly updated, and U may have noticed our new sections in the Story-board, along with new Authors!
For all that your Webmaster Dragonize and i did, ther's a price to pay though... and that foremost in the most literal sense! Our monthly payment to provider has tripled since the necessary switching of IT-host, and extra-payments need to be made for DDOS-protection, to guarantee us staying up for You! There are more bills, that need to be paid frequently, and with the need to become full professional, that arose with the Success, the sums we'll have to pay will increase too... we wouldnt be us though, if we wouldnt make sure there are special discounts for the People that were with us from day one - the Thankfulness that always distincted us most from bad mother!
So, the prices will remain as they are until the end of February - time for those who still hesitate to become a Premium-member, to do so now! From the 1st of March on, there will be the following pricings for new subscribers:
12months=15$
2years=25$
4years - best deal! - 35$
There will be no more lifetime-premiums by then!
Prices for those who already paid - or do so now - will remain as they are though, and we will even offer the old price of 10$ per year for those, who make their payments recurring - as long as the recurring status is never interrupted... once one pauses, they can only rejoin going with the new pricelist! Some Folks already have decided to become Lifetime-premium Member by transfering 50 bucks to us - again, U still can decide to do so, until end of next month!
And to make that decision even easier and more attractive, we start a discount-action from now on: Lifetime-premium is now, 'til February 28th, reduced to only 35$ !!
If anyone reading that hasnt completely understood everything yet or has difficulties to decide, which payment is the most valuable in their specific case, can ask us for Support!
We look forward to start in the new Year with You - and hope to have more Fun and Xcitement, than ever!
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Thursday, January 2, 2014
2013 - The Year from MOTHERLESS' Perspective
2013 was the year, in which Dragonize and i jumped in the cold water - and took the step from being just another two criticial, disappointed Members of vanillabomber to becoming our very own Webmasters! We hesitaded long and calculated risks and chances very thoughtful... eventually we'ld never seriously dared this, if the situation on bad-mother, the censorship and personal harassment, hadnt become unbearable! We had countless Discussions, how things might develop, how it'ld ultimately feel like - first lesson we learned when we were finally up, was: always xpect the unxpected!
We wer'nt sure if anybody would really sign up on our opening day - we had some 150 Members right on the date! We didnt know how long it'ld take 'til somebody pays for Premium - we had the first subscription actually before we even opened gates! We couldn't say how long it may take 'til we global public takes any notice of us, and whether we would ever be detectable with google&co - the bots crawled us each day, and we entered the top-million websites worldwide after just a month!
Hardest of all to calculate though was the reaction of "dotcom" to our success - all we knew was, it would be heinous and mean... as this is just in their DNA! Once we were on vanillabomber and voiced any critic, we basicly heard the same that most probably many of U did too, like: "If you dont like how we handle things here, just go away and open ur own motherless!" - Well, in difference to many Folks who had it before we did exactly that - knowing there wouldnt be any cheering on behalf of bad mother! We thought about possible threats, attempts to sue (which'ld had been senseless anyway) or public beefing... but they went right on commiting - clearly! - criminal actions, namely attacks using DDOS ("Destributed Denial of Service", making a site unavailable for users with automated scripts) and managed to bring us down several times! We were forced so to build in additional security, and ultimately switching from our neat malaysian host to another Provider, better equipped and prepared to meet those kinds of heinous assault!
The most suffering from this cowardly aggressions - and thats what bothered us the very most! - was on our Members, who couldnt find the site for days and weeks at times, and didnt know what happened... Peoples that gave us their Fellowship, their Material, and in many cases even their money for Premium! The enemy from vanillabomber was convinced, we'ld either give up quickly - or out Folks would stay away soon, tired of this up'n'down game... little did they - and even we! - anticipate how awesome our faithful Membership was! As soon as we were back, so were they - and with just one day up, even new Premiums kept pouring in! Our "secret" was just the Virtues that dotcom forgot over the years while becoming the undecent juggernaut grown way too big - treating our Customers with Respect and Kindness,holding their shared material dear and giving them all the way we could their Guaranteed Right of Free Expression!
With that receipt, and the Support of our engaged Community, we managed to meet all challenges and hostilities and make out first maonths to an amazing Success - we have entered the top 200.000 worldwide just on new year's eve, plus the top 150.000 in The USA!
We're noticed by more people, and have a daily newbie-rate higher than ever... best requirements to go into 2014, thanks to U all!!
We wer'nt sure if anybody would really sign up on our opening day - we had some 150 Members right on the date! We didnt know how long it'ld take 'til somebody pays for Premium - we had the first subscription actually before we even opened gates! We couldn't say how long it may take 'til we global public takes any notice of us, and whether we would ever be detectable with google&co - the bots crawled us each day, and we entered the top-million websites worldwide after just a month!
Hardest of all to calculate though was the reaction of "dotcom" to our success - all we knew was, it would be heinous and mean... as this is just in their DNA! Once we were on vanillabomber and voiced any critic, we basicly heard the same that most probably many of U did too, like: "If you dont like how we handle things here, just go away and open ur own motherless!" - Well, in difference to many Folks who had it before we did exactly that - knowing there wouldnt be any cheering on behalf of bad mother! We thought about possible threats, attempts to sue (which'ld had been senseless anyway) or public beefing... but they went right on commiting - clearly! - criminal actions, namely attacks using DDOS ("Destributed Denial of Service", making a site unavailable for users with automated scripts) and managed to bring us down several times! We were forced so to build in additional security, and ultimately switching from our neat malaysian host to another Provider, better equipped and prepared to meet those kinds of heinous assault!
The most suffering from this cowardly aggressions - and thats what bothered us the very most! - was on our Members, who couldnt find the site for days and weeks at times, and didnt know what happened... Peoples that gave us their Fellowship, their Material, and in many cases even their money for Premium! The enemy from vanillabomber was convinced, we'ld either give up quickly - or out Folks would stay away soon, tired of this up'n'down game... little did they - and even we! - anticipate how awesome our faithful Membership was! As soon as we were back, so were they - and with just one day up, even new Premiums kept pouring in! Our "secret" was just the Virtues that dotcom forgot over the years while becoming the undecent juggernaut grown way too big - treating our Customers with Respect and Kindness,holding their shared material dear and giving them all the way we could their Guaranteed Right of Free Expression!
With that receipt, and the Support of our engaged Community, we managed to meet all challenges and hostilities and make out first maonths to an amazing Success - we have entered the top 200.000 worldwide just on new year's eve, plus the top 150.000 in The USA!
We're noticed by more people, and have a daily newbie-rate higher than ever... best requirements to go into 2014, thanks to U all!!
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