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how does dreamwidth make money?

is it just paid accounts and renames? do people really buy them enough to support the site?

i've bought a bunch of rename tokens but that doesn't seem like nearly enough

well, they don't have a large staff, and they have a limited about of server space to keep up. all the paids and extra icons we buy adds up.

it also helps them when we buy points and use them later.

just seems like the amount of server load vastly outweighs microtransactions. i mean clearly it doesn't but i'm curious about the actual numbers

well, look at the numbers. if you have 10,000 users on the site and even half of them (which i'm guessing is more, tbh) buy at minimum, a paid each month, that's 15,000 a month. then you have premium paids, people buying paids for multiple accounts, people gifting paids to multiple people (think of christmas anons gifting a handful of 2-6 months of paid time to randoms), and it adds up to enough to keep the site running.

Considering the userbase, it likely adds up. I don't imagine they make a ton of money, but they certainly must make some. It does help that the overall design is simple and it's mostly textual content. Text actually uses very little bandwidth and what images they do use are very small.

I do know we certainly buy a lot of paids and keep them up and a good number buy premium paids as well. That stuff adds up over time and DW seems to very much love the RP community and it's likely because we do indeed bring in good income.

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