Hello all, Barclay here. I figured it was time for an update on the how things are running behind the scenes.
Firstly, that we have survived on nothing but one ad-campaign for our monthly bills for several years is nothing short of a miracle.
Why? Traditionally, to participate in an ad-campaign that actually, you know,
makes money, you would need to run a legitimate site with a legitimate campaign.
Think, a giant site like Amazon with a giant ad-partner like Google. Each impression may be worth almost nothing, but billions and billions of almost nothing ends up being ALOT.
Then there's us. You might look at a site like
https://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/bbw-chan.nl/ and see that we have enough traffic to make an 'estimated' $2000/day or $60,000/month and think "well damn, they doin' just fine"
This could not be further from the truth. The numbers you see there assume a traditional ad-campaign's payouts, which we do not have. We rely on a no-KYC, bitcoin-only ad campaign from a-ads.com.
Now, I do not want to shit on our ad partner a-ads.com. In fact, in the beginning, the payouts were quite generous and more than enough to pay our costs as seen in
>>4855 .
To do that AND not have to suffer shitty pop-ups and pop-unders and malicious shit, it was kind of amazing.
During and now what looks like after the crypto winter, we make, at best, $3-5/day, not nearly enough to meet our hosting costs.
There are some caveats to this. Obviously the price of bitcoin changes constantly, and I am at some fault for not converting more of our reserves to a stable coin like USDC when the price was plummeting.
But other factors are against us. Not only do we make far less now on our ads, but our hosting provider has raised prices. All of this is culminating for us to be in a not great spot here in the coming months.
I wanted to warn people because, I can pretty much see whats going to happen if we don't figure this out. Furthermore, it's getting harder and harder for BBW-Chan to justify it's existence, from both a financial and utility perspective.
Sites like coomer.party have become THE de-facto porn-pirating sites with files that STAY UP. If you are more into the social aspect, there are curated communities like curvage and titintops that are 100% less toxic.
Yet, somehow, this site continues to be popular enough to regularly site in the top 500 adult sites world-wide.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/bbw-chan.nl/#overviewSo, clearly, interest is here, it's just a manner of, how the fuck do we monetize this mess where it can actually pay it's own costs.
I've been running this site since 2016 and told myself, as long as it pays for itself, I might as well keep the ball rolling. The second I have to dip into my own pockets for this nonsense, is the second the site stops being fun to run.
So here we are. Afters years of not having to beg for donations, I'm putting up a USDC donation address in case anyone wants to support this ongoing effort, but that won't be enough I fear.
At current, we make an average of $180 from our ads campaign, and would need about $120 into that address each month to make up the difference.This could change however, with crypto on the up-swing a-ads may have more marketing money in the coffers soon. If that happens, I will take down the donation address.
At this point, we
must either find a new, cheaper, no-KYC pay-with-crypto, ignores-DMCA host, or a higher paying ad campaign. Or both.
Either that, or seriously consider a downgrade in our service (slower connection, crappier server, etc).
If you are in the know, let me know. I know paying nearly $300/month isn't a great deal, but it's also hard to find the combination of things we require for less.
You can also use this thread to poke and prod at me, if you wish.
Oh yeah, I also fixed... the inability to display blank lines between paragraphs since we introduced cloudflare. How ... did.. no...one...notice.
