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The off-season IS our in-season.

And since it was just brought up let me just say the following The look will be different. The software is different than it is today. The functionality is not exactly the same. The changes are necessary. Our current software is broken. The upgrade will happen and people will get used to the changes. Trust me. It will all be OK. Please do not waste your time telling me "if it ain't broke don't fix it".

Friday night and Saturday are the down periods of the week. You know when people aren't working. LOL

No idea. I don't actually expect the site to be down. As I explained I will be installing the new software separately on a copy of the database that I will make Friday night. I assume that will take me several hours to go through and that's without doing more than a simple logo change on the look. You will know there was a change when I redirect the forum to the subdirectory. If anything catastrophic happens I will just go back to the original database. I would rather I have Saturday to deal with issues.

Especially with the issues regarding iOS 11 and punctuation. The URL will change. I am going to move it back under twobillsdrive.com as a subdirectory instead of the forums sub domain we have now. I will probably just make a copy of the database and do the transfer over in the subdirectory. There may be a window where a certain number of new posts are lost that night. That's probably a better solution than me just turning everything off for the night while I transfer things. I'm pretty sure everyone will have to login again. Make sure you know your password and your login name.

What is your purpose in this thread? Why did you take that time out of your life to compile that?

I recommended a name for Josh to consider.

No idea. I presume predominantly white, older males if our tailgates are indicative of anything.

They studied attitudes about this many years ago and found it mostly breaks down by race. White people don't like animated celebrations. Black people enjoy them more. Given the racial breakdown of WR/RBs in this league - it's no surprise that TD celebrations are more animated than the average white guy wants to see.

Ha. Well, I've been asked worse questions that were serious, so you can't take any chances these days.

Maybe, maybe not. Tim Graham might be a guy they would want. Your second sentence doesn't make a lot of sense. Maybe intelligent people want to read intelligently written pieces? Not sure why people who want to read quality pieces would be disparaged. If I hired a professionally trained journalist and paid them a living wage, then yes. However, that is not going to happen. They have to hit that sweet spot that collects the most subscriptions with the least amount of overhead. Once you build a beast, you have to feed a beast. Best to stay lean. 20,000k subscribers paying $5 month is $1.2M a year in one city with a few writers is a lot of money as long as you aren't paying a full support staff.

Why the Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/sports/the-athletic-newspapers.html Interesting to note that the Toronto site has 15,000 subscribers and is breaking even. As I have mentioned before, we will eventually have to pay for quality.

There are a lot of people that won't get this reference.

That many articles submitted to TBD.

It's all done by hand by the human aggregation machine: GoBillsinDallas. 81,000 of them.

Read more. Post less. I have probably stated it a half a dozen times in a half a dozen ways in this thread. The idea is so incredibly !@#$ing stupid it's hard to keep answering these ignorant accusations. I could not even get a handful of FREE subscriptions to hand out to complaining readers. Not a single one. I literally could not get them to give me something at no cost to them, let alone have them pay me. I am blessed to be comfortably upper middle class. Whatever business model you knuckleheads could possibly come up with, I can assure you it would have absolutely no bearing on my life in anyway shape or form. Not even a little bit.

Literally, at this very moment. You just can't fake this kind of stupid.

I wouldn't doubt Josh uses her job change as a recruiting tool. "People who work here can move on to larger markets..."

Poor white men. How will we ever get by?

Poor white men. How will we ever get by?

The people who claim they would never pay $3 a month for a garbage product like the Buffalo News also accuse me of raking in the kickbacks on the same garbage product costing less than a cafeteria brownie. As soon as I roll these new found nickels up, I'm telling ya - Golden Corral here I come!

There are few. This is the best one I've seen: Courier-Express: The Final Days

I did... Concrete and Gold.

Ask Jeeves here I come!

A paper like the New York Times might get $7-8 per 1000 page views. Most local papers don't have that pull. Those payout rates keep dropping. That's why many have given up chasing pennies. They used to be nickels. So, it's just math. How many subscribers do you need to make up for the large drop in advertiser revenue. I think someone posted that the Washington Post did a study and said they would lose 82% of their readership and they still went subscription based.