Hi!
Is everybody over at the Pro forum? I feel like it’s extremely slow over here at the regular forum nowadays.
Is everybody over at the Pro forum? I feel like it’s extremely slow over here at the regular forum nowadays.
Pro forum vs regular
- Thread starter Viggo
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I am of course one of the Pro members and I can't actually answer that, because the threads on that sub-forum look exactly like the other threads, to a casual glance, espcially since I look at "new posts" to see what's happened since the last time I was here. Yes, you can look at the top where (on this thread) it says "Forums > Rumors > EOS Bodies," but unless you go out of your way to look at that, there's nothing to call attention to a thread as being only the pro members can see (like, say a different background color or a request to put on the super-secret eyeglasses before viewing).
So I can't actually say whether there's a ton of activity in that area.
I *can* attest from personal experience that you don't have to actually be a pro to be in that group, however!
Which, to be fair, is more than enough. I actually think it would hurt the athmosphere of the forum in general if it's main appeals would be locked behind a pay wall. Especially now that the one time payment options are gone.
And the ads have gotten even more intrusive. The poor people's site is becoming almost unreadable on a mobile device, with ads layered on ads.
Its very expensive to run a forum like this, the owner needs to make a living. That means lots of advertisements. The Pro membership shuts off advertisements. There is a additional forum area for discussions by pro members and a Buy-Sell area but the big benefit comes in keeping the site going.Ahh. The “Peasant Blockers” seem to be fully operational.
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If a person choses to stick with the ads, that's fine, they are paying their way through advertising revenue. The Pro membership is nice though.
Yes, I am on the "PRO" forum. I can't afford RF glass, but I can fer dern sure afford the ad free "PRO" forum.
Oh...Im a pro member, but I didn't know or see any special pro member forum only areas....
There was a post something like "thank you for joining the pro group" that was on the pro forum.
I don't think much else has been.
I would note that the rise in ads across all the various sites I frequent is noticeable. I am not sure if it is a function of increased marketing to those WFH or a function of reduced rates to sites for carrying ads. My guess is the latter as the business model of the internet is to rope everyone in cheap and slowly boil the wallets.
FB is the exemplar for this as they offer less reach per dollar every time one turns around.
