Hi everyone!
some of you know me and some don't. I just wanted to put a little two cents in. After reading the posts and understanding where everyone is coming from, you just have to take a deep breath and put yourseld in the big TU shoes for a minute.
You love this site and we love you. This has become more of a family lately than just a bunch of strangers looking for tips and tutorials and I think that is what keeps most coming back.
This is not something thought up overnight. The more is costs for the servers, new programs and tons of tedious hours to design even the last detail of this site, something has got to give somewhere.
Donation buttons = only a few helped. thank you to those of you.
I put up a shop full of TU merchandise after everyone said they wanted t-shirts and hats. I even announced that the proceeds would go to fund the site. I paid for the stock out of my pocket...only 6 people bought (a big thank you to those of you).
We don't charge alot for advertising and those of you who have ads are making more because of TU.
Even those of you who have used the classified ads are making money.
Jerry has some great Ideas that would benifit all of you. Especially those of You that are luremakers. It is so easy to say just do this or just do that. Software is expensive and those of you that have sites know what kind of time it takes just to code one page of ideas. It took 6 years to bring this site this far. and for the cost ...well it's not cheap. Everythings comes out of pocket for us and we have been happy doing it. There has been a continuing happiness from stories, jokes, picutres, and updates of the latest BIG ONE CAUGHT TODAY post.
No decision on the future of TU becuse it remains how it always has been....the decision is up to you....the MEMBERS