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Title: One Week on....
Post by: Iminei on March 08, 2017, 17:29:25 PM
What a fantastic week!!!!!!

In this one week more than 187 members have registered
52 of those chose to take out a yearly subscription
with 5 members opting for the monthly.

You have raised over £500 so far for the maintenance and future of The Sewing Place

The most members online came yesterday evening at 7.30 pm with 35 ...
but hold on to your hats, we are up to 27 as I write so that stat could soon be history!

You have been a busy, busy bunch with 154  members posting more than 2270 times in 257 threads

We have also had to sadly gladly decline the registration attempts of 5 Viagra salesman from Nigeria and 8 European pornographers...

Sorry Guys...Wrong Forum!

Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: SkoutSews on March 08, 2017, 18:15:56 PM
I must be missing something here. Annual subscription is £10, monthly is £1 so equivalent to £12 annually.
Do you prefer annual as it needs less admin? Is that why you said it was an upgrade?
Either way, great figures for the first week! What an excellent response. Apart from the pornographers.....
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Holly Berry on March 08, 2017, 18:19:58 PM
Great stats and well done for deterring the undesirables  :devil:
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Tamnymore on March 08, 2017, 19:30:53 PM
Wow that's fantastic. What a great start. I think we all love the format, the stats (oh the luvverly stats), the highly responsive admins and finding everyone again. An inspiration. Thank you yet again to Im and MrIm (Im indoors??? :D), Fran and everyone for making this all happen.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Efemera on March 08, 2017, 20:07:28 PM
Gosh... is it just a week.. feels like I've been here forever..in a good way that is.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Francesca on March 08, 2017, 20:09:56 PM
I must be missing something here. Annual subscription is £10, monthly is £1 so equivalent to £12 annually.
Do you prefer annual as it needs less admin? Is that why you said it was an upgrade?
Either way, great figures for the first week! What an excellent response. Apart from the pornographers.....

It's more that collecting the full £10 in one go guarantees that £10 as a whole. You can pull out of the monthly subscription at any time, so for example in your first month having paid only £1. Therefore having the "guarantee" of the larger amount is good for the coffers   ;)

But really either way is appreciated!
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: MrIminei on March 08, 2017, 20:14:34 PM
And the Paypal fees mean that £10 in one go is actually marginally better than 12 x £1. However as Fran says all subscriptions and donations are appreciated and will go towards the running and improvement of the forum.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Maximum on March 08, 2017, 21:13:37 PM
Wow, what a start. Well done to the admins for setting it up and burning the midnight oil and well done to us for getting back together. Can't believe it's only a week. Also great to have updates on what is happening.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Lantana on March 08, 2017, 22:53:51 PM
I'm so pleased that this forum was set up. The feeling of real dismay i felt on discovering that TSF had disappeared was soon turned to joy! Good old google! Many thanks to all involved. This looks to be a lovely well thought out format. i shall tell my RL sewing friends about it.  <3 <3 <3
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Lilian on March 08, 2017, 23:44:53 PM
Great stats for the first week  :D.

Thanks to everyone involved it's been good to be here from the start.   :toast:
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Swisslass on March 09, 2017, 06:33:01 AM
Golly - almost a stampede !

Has this covered the costs of set up? What will be the running costs?
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: UttaRetch on March 09, 2017, 09:14:22 AM
We are blazing away and the bonfire can be seen from afar.   0_0
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: SkoutSews on March 09, 2017, 09:44:06 AM
Thanks Fran and Mr. Imi, those explanations make sense.  Good to know that there are funds coming in to keep this going.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Iminei on March 09, 2017, 11:34:12 AM
We are blazing away and the bonfire can be seen from afar

Yes Retch, but its also being increasingly targeted by the more undesirable factions of society ...
it seems for every one TSfer or the like that we welcome, I am now researching and rejecting 3 peeps with dubious motives.

We need to advertise, in the right areas, our presence to any lingering Tsfers ...
Does anyone know of any we have not yet seen over here?
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Vegegrow on March 09, 2017, 11:41:54 AM
There are several on PR but I think they have stated that they are happy to wait for the return of TSF.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Lowena on March 09, 2017, 11:57:05 AM
Great news guys,
Is Sakar here, Imi?
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Iminei on March 09, 2017, 12:06:25 PM
Thats fine by us!  :)
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: UttaRetch on March 09, 2017, 15:17:24 PM
 0_0  0_0  0_0 One of them who gave Fran a public flogging over the disquiet we raised about the sudden loss of TSF has now signed up here.  Without going over to PR, I can't say that this person was prepared to wait it out.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Vegegrow on March 09, 2017, 15:50:44 PM
Great news guys,
Is Sakar here, Imi?
I'm sure I've seen Sakar :D
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Vegegrow on March 09, 2017, 15:52:46 PM
0_0  0_0  0_0 One of them who gave Fran a public flogging over the disquiet we raised about the sudden loss of TSF has now signed up here.  Without going over to PR, I can't say that this person was prepared to wait it out.
That great they may like what they see and we are pleased to see everyone
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: UttaRetch on March 09, 2017, 16:09:07 PM
Sakar is here, but you can check the current membership if you just look up to the top of the this page.  ;)
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: MrIminei on March 09, 2017, 17:19:32 PM
Has this covered the costs of set up? What will be the running costs?

Yes, the initial set up costs are covered, thank you all! Iminei will publish everything by the end of the month.

The running costs are a little bit up in the air. There are a number of things we want to / should look at. The chat and gallery add ons are free versions of the respective software and we may want to upgrade to the paid for versions to get enhanced functionality.

We are also looking at SSL - encryption. Currently your browser probably tells you that "this site is not secure". That's not inherently a problem - we are not a bank, don't hold personal details and don't take payments (paypal does that on our behalf). However we don't want people to be put off by the browser messages.

It will also be wise to keep a contingency fund in case the servers we are currently on run out of steam and we are forced to upgrade.

However, the forum is financially secure, not something we thought would be the case after only 1 week!
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Sewingsue on March 09, 2017, 19:46:20 PM
Thank you MrIminei, I did wonder when I started getting the "this site is not secure" warning message.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: supergran on March 09, 2017, 19:55:55 PM
How on earth do you work out who are the "real" people, and who are the baddies? Nasty thought that so many dubious people would find an innocent site like this one.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: MrIminei on March 09, 2017, 19:59:27 PM
Intuition, web sites that help weed out spammers and a handy plug in!

They generally come from domains (the bit after the @ in your email address) that look dodgy.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Lantana on March 09, 2017, 21:58:58 PM


We are also looking at SSL - encryption. Currently your browser probably tells you that "this site is not secure". That's not inherently a problem - we are not a bank, don't hold personal details and don't take payments (paypal does that on our behalf). However we don't want people to be put off by the browser messages.



Ah ha hadn't seen this earlier .. have just posted on the suggestions and bugs thread about this issue. It wasn't dong it yesterday only since Firefox upgraded earlier to today. It did occur to me that it might be putting some people off as a lot of folk aren't that computer savvy,

LX
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: Maximum on March 14, 2017, 17:57:39 PM
Many thanks, MrI, I really appreciate the regular updates that keep us all fully in the picture. Has anyone heard from Raving Doll?
Those that are waiting for TSF to rise from the ashes, I do hope they have comfy chairs ;), meanwhile I'm really enjoying our new home and hope that new people are finding us all helpful and supportive and fun.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: MrIminei on March 18, 2017, 17:22:15 PM
I thought you may appreciate this one - KattySexoPek -  apparently a male from Kazakhstan .......

PS, please don't email him!

Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: UttaRetch on March 18, 2017, 17:48:13 PM
Those that are waiting for TSF to rise from the ashes, I do hope they have comfy chairs ;),

 0_0  0_0  0_0  Oh how I have to bite my tongue on the 'other place'.

DementedFairy had been in contact with Ravingdoll in the past, but not recently.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: UttaRetch on March 18, 2017, 18:19:51 PM
I thought you may appreciate this one - KattySexoPek -  apparently a male from Kazakhstan .......

PS, please don't email him!

 0_0  0_0 So it's a good thing that I did not attempt to sign up with one of my gmail aliases.
Title: Re: One Week on....
Post by: BrendaP on March 18, 2017, 19:18:06 PM
That's fantastic progress in just a week or so and good to know that it's currently financialy secure.  Long may that last.

Huge thanks to Mr & Mrs Iminei and to Fran for all of their hard work and techie expertise.

 :toast: :toast: :toast: