• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

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Most of the year Texas is fine and I appreciate that I do not have several feet of snow to deal with in the winter.
But the middle of August with temps around 100 is the pits. The heat just saps the energy out of you. I love to garden but in August go out just long enough to water or mow, then back inside to the AC.
I just don't see how people with outdoor jobs here get through their day in August.
 
Same here in St. Louis. Heat index up near 115, humidity close to 100%. I must admit, we've had a cooler-than-average summer until this week, so I really shouldn't complain. But I will.
We had a Festival of Nations celebration down in the city yesterday, and everyone in St. Louis takes their dog everywhere they go. Those poor dogs were walking around on the asphalt in this heat. I didn't see any people walking around barefoot! (I did not attend; just saw news coverage)

Noelle
 
At least you have AC. Most houses up here were built without it because ... well ... it's Montana.

We just finished up six weeks of highs in the 90's. I was out in the morning to take care of critters, then back in the house until the sun went down. Then it's back out to take care of animals again and open all the windows to try and get it to cool off. Trying to keep up with the watering to keep everything from dying was problematic as well.

As if it weren't expensive enough to live here - $100 a month for tv, $100 a month for internet, average of $300 a month for propane, $80 a month for trash pickup, $200 a month for electricity, blah blah blah, next year we're going to have to install an AC system. I'm getting way too old for that sweating while sitting still crap.

Mother Nature, you SUCK.
 
Shadera said:
next year we're going to have to install an AC system.
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When I was out in Az, I saw a decent amount of people using "swamp coolers". Apparently, evaporative cooling systems are fairly easy to make and supposedly they're surprisingly effective. May be something that's worth looking into.
 

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I'm in Texas too and bleh it's hot! My energy bill is through the roof trying to cool my apartment but still have all the hot spots for the critters. Can't wait for it to cool down
 
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