Let me further elaborate here, and it will clarify a lot of points as to why I started it again from scratch. Remember, I said the forum was just a
small part of the site.
- I do not want the forum to be high traffic.
- I do not want the forum to have a shit ton of members. (xx,xxx would do nicely, no more)
- In the long run, I do not want to earn any revenue from the forum. (ads on there will be removed within time, and for example, VIP cannot be bought)
I'm going back to the basics, back to the old days; a true warez forum, a community. The only way this is succeeding is due to the past traffic and the fact we're already well known. This is why a totally new website would be unable to do this.
The new subdomains as and when they come, the downloads CMS, the porn, and the torrents -- they will be ultra high traffic, and they're what will earn the revenue. When the subdomains are launched and receive substantial traffic (there's been a long detailed plan to this), the ads on there will cover WarezScene's revenue, and the forum itself will become advertisement free.
To those commenting 'how shit' we are, we had 700 registrations in 24 hours. We won't die. The skin.. eh, it's a love or hate thing --
as with all skins. Some are giving it 10/10, others 0/10. We're working on alternatives. I see no problem with customizing a publicly available skin though.. we were the first to modify Greenfox to Blue, and look how many others (including the company creating itself) followed? :P
The forums were launched ASAP to prove we were coming back; as stated before, the forum is 20% of the total site. So this is 20% of what to expect.
HOWZ DAT MUDDAFUKAS!?