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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.

Made My Own Tracking Database

AGoodwin

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This past weekend I decided to make my own database using OOBase. I use and do love iHerp, but I really wanted to have inventory tracking. I looked at Degei but I really did not like it. Now granted it is still a work in progress, my database is now perfectly functional for what I need. I can track feedings, weight, and anything else I want. I can add food items to my inventory, and when I track a feeding, the inventory is automatically adjusted.

What I still need to work on...

I still need to make it so that the list of options for breeding automatically populates and adds new animals as they are added to the database. Right now I have to add to the list manually.

I would also like to make is to that when I track breeding for one animal, the tracking for the second animal involves automatically updates. Again, this currently has to be done manually.

With all that being said. I must say I am proud of myself. :D
 

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Thanks!

Like I said, it is still a work in progress so I am adding new features and tweaking things as I go, but all in all I am happy with how it is working. I find the tracking is much quicker than on iHerp, however only for individual tracking. I think another feature I am going to add is batch tracking. I think it should be fairly simple to implement. I guess I will see!
 
i really really like that! I have been wanting something diff then iherp for a while! its good but Its not great.
 
if you ever feel like Sharing or needing help debug I would be interested. I like the format great job!
 
You are more than welcome to have a copy, but there are a few things to keep in mind.

1) Although the front end looks good and it is completely functional, what is going on behind the scenes is less than optimal. This was only my second DB and I basically just learn as I go so there are a few things that although working, I probably went about implementing the wrong way. (e.g. to get the inventory tracking to work, I have a separate query set up for every item and size combination because I could not figure out how to do it all in one query)

2) As mentioned in my original post, the names of the animals available in the list of breeding options has to be manually added.

There are probably more things I can't think of at the moment, but as I said, you are more than welcome to have a copy of what I have. PM your email and I will send it.
 
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