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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #60 on: August 25, 2011, 04:56:28 am »
Quote from: Asherdan on August 24, 2011, 04:28:52 am
'Stad needs some dead white guys to sing him a greek chorus of motivation.

Send him enough Washington, Lincoln, Jackson, Hamilton and Franklins to sing it loud and strong.
A chorus of cans for my friends.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #61 on: August 25, 2011, 03:44:50 pm »
How much does hosting cost anyway?  Jesus X. Christ!  How do all those other webcomics manage to stay on the internet without groveling like a mediocre NPR station?
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #62 on: August 25, 2011, 07:22:30 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on August 25, 2011, 03:44:50 pm
How much does hosting cost anyway?

It depends on how much bandwith you use.  When Onstad is delivering product I imagine his bandwith usage is pretty high.  Right now I wouldn't think it would be extraordinarily high.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #63 on: August 26, 2011, 06:40:24 am »
Quote from: side_show on July 27, 2011, 04:33:41 am
Unless something momentous happens in the last few days of this month, July 2011 will been the quietest month in TOUAMB's history.

We appear to be over our July slump, but we still aren't as active as we used to be when we had a comic to talk about.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #64 on: August 26, 2011, 06:57:54 am »
It's almost weird to even think about it, you know.

We used to have, like, every other day, something external to all of our personal lives and peccadilloes that spurred conversation, that created regular patterns of attendance, etc.

It almost sounds CRAZY.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #65 on: August 26, 2011, 07:53:40 pm »
The cost for bandwidth is always going down. I suppose you may pay more for a guaranteed level of uptime, etc.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #66 on: September 06, 2011, 04:43:45 pm »
I think some of the GOF strips brought enough traffic to crash the server, particularly when 'Stad would promise an update at a certain time and we all hell of refreshed browsers waiting to see that day's gift of fighting cats.

You gotta hand over some monies if you want to keep your flow, uh, flowin'.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #67 on: September 06, 2011, 07:43:56 pm »
Quote from: Turbo Ninja on September 06, 2011, 04:43:45 pm
I think some of the GOF strips brought enough traffic to crash the server, particularly when 'Stad would promise an update at a certain time and we all hell of refreshed browsers waiting to see that day's gift of fighting cats.

Those were different times, my friend.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #68 on: September 07, 2011, 01:10:41 am »
I've done my part. I just bought his most recent book. I'm going to be in Portland very briefly this weekend, so if he wants to provide some... services, say, for more of my money, maybe then we can talk.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #69 on: September 07, 2011, 04:14:48 am »
The most services possible?
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #70 on: September 07, 2011, 06:04:10 am »
All of the services.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #71 on: September 11, 2011, 06:00:19 pm »
Well now we won't even get to talk about whether we should be paying for the premium site anymore.

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Assetbar is closing its doors January 1, 2012

We built Fanflows so creators and artists could have an easy way to pursue their craft and make a premium connection with their fans.

It didn't work

So, as of January 1, 2012, Assetbar and all Fanflows will be gone.
How this is going to go down

    Effectively immediately we will no longer be accepting new funds deposits.
    Other than adding new funds, you may continue to use Assetbar for the rest of the year, but...
    On December 30, 2011 at 11:59PM PST, we pull the plug on the servers.

Actions you can take

    Withdraw your remaining funds
    Donate the remainder of your balance to Chris Onstad
    Continue to browse your Premium Content until January 1, 2012
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Thanks!

It has been fun. Mostly.

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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #72 on: September 11, 2011, 06:44:29 pm »
The off-chance that this forces Onstad to put out maybe-not-perfect-but-fuck*ng-good strips to fuel merch sales again, that or go back to a normal people job which I don't think even Onstad is crazy enough to want to do, could make this the best news to hit this site about Achewood, like, ever.

Hopefully. I'm trying this hope thing lately even though it seems to work even less for me than bitter self-loathing.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #73 on: September 11, 2011, 06:51:52 pm »
Quote from: Asherdan on September 11, 2011, 06:25:26 pm
I wonder if Achewood going into a death-spiral precipitated Assetbar doing the same. Was Achewood that big a percentage of the Assetbar business. Who knows.

He was most of their business for most of the time, I think. They never seemed to have more than a few other clients. I would only see the other possibilities when I renewed my subscription so I don't remember what they were, but there never seemed to be a ton of stuff. Toothpaste for Dinner used them for a little while and I really liked what they were doing, but they left the site in a big huff.
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Re: Not dead yet
« Reply #74 on: September 11, 2011, 09:31:33 pm »
Onstad sucks at business.
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