1 Reply by Manfre

(18 replies, posted in Feature requests)

jchristophm wrote:

Google ads are the least obtrusive ads I know of. If users complain, then tell them to screw off since they don't pay for your bandwidth.

You could always offer them a subscription account that removes the ads, but it would cost them a few bucks a month.

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2 Reply by Manfre

(18 replies, posted in Feature requests)

I just noticed a problem with the google ads on my site. I'm not sure if this is caused by punbb or the google code, but take a look http://www.cia-alumni.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=7. If you scroll the mouse wheel over the ads, it will scroll the ad as if it were too big for the area. There is also an off colored bar at the bottom of the ad block after scrolling. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? I don't seem to be having this problem with my non punbb websites.

While searching the web for punbb and adsense, I came across another punbb site http://www.costper.com that is having this problem. I contacted the admin, but haven't received a response yet.

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3 Reply by Manfre

(18 replies, posted in Feature requests)

I have a few sites with ads and overall, I have a positive cash flow. It's not much, but I pocket a little bit of money after hosting and domain fees. I have 1 site that I am projecting to make less than $10 US for the year. The traffic to the site is fairly decent, but it doesn't generate many clicks and when it does, they average about $0.05 each.

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4 Reply by Manfre

(14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

This was really useful. I had to made a minor tweak to the bbclone logging, since my page_title was excessively long and getting truncated in the bbclone display. This will use the $page_title as a last resort, otherwise it will use the current forum name or the current forum with current topic.

// Edits to use BBclone
if (!empty($cur_forum['forum_name']))
    $bbclone_page_title = $cur_forum['forum_name'];
else if (!empty($cur_topic['subject']))
    $bbclone_page_title = (!empty($cur_topic['forum_name'])?$cur_topic['forum_name'].'/':'') . $cur_topic['subject'];
else
    $bbclone_page_title = $page_title;
define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", $bbclone_page_title);
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "../bbclone/");
define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER);

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