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Wow, that's an impressive track record! Releasing over 100 plugins, especially the one used on the main SMF site, shows real dedication. I totally understand the hesitation when it comes to maintaining plugins, especially after dealing with difficult experiences. It can be frustrating when the focus shifts from development to support. That said, it's great to see you're still considering contributing to the XF community! If you do decide to dive into it, I think your experience would bring a lot of value. I can imagine that finding the right balance between creating and maintaining can be tough, but your expertise is clearly something many would appreciate. Thanks for sharing your experience, and hopefully, if you decide to create something for XF, it goes much smoother this time around! :)

oh you were plugin developer for SMF? :oops: amazing. Have you tried it for Xenforo? Or you have completely stopped it?

oh wow, but why he is leaving? Any personal reasons? I don't know him much but I think I have seen his fee plugins on the official Xenforo board. Editing my post:- Ahh I just went to that link you posted, such a legacy, superb guy with amazing work he has done for XF but he knows better what is a good time to say "good bye" such a shame, everything ends at one stage in our life. It can be work related or relationships, time flies, things change and friends leave :(

Wow, I just stumbled upon this thread right now! Coincidentally, I’ve got my headphones on, listening to Pashto songs at midnight here in Toronto. What a vibe!🥳

Great topic, sadly now a days after Google core updates, no matter what I do, I do not get any traffic on my blogs websites. I used to have a lot of traffic, now everything fails as the SEO has gone dead , thanks to the AI tools which k*lled bloggers like me badly. I do not see any more hope in the near future if I would ever attract new traffic to my sites, but let's see, things change and might the SEO change too in favor of website owners!

hahaha you are sooooo right about it, people are happy mappy when start something and initially they will jump in deep and do this or that and slowly slowly the interest fades away lollll But for me, I am not gonna run away, trust me, I had a forum like 10 years ago and I grew that from zero to ovr 40K or 50K monthly active users I had, that time I was even making around 300 dollars per month from only google ads :D Now, I have so many ideas as you said lol even I can not work on them, but I will never leave my sites. i have over 15 sites and I always go time to time on them. I just enjoy having everything I like, if people come or not, I do not mind. I just enjoy having stuff I like, but if I get traffic that is awesome too. For now, I can not really afford promotions :( Going through rough times, thanks to Canada lol :D everything is super expensive and living with job is a nightmare but I have no choice. If ever I need promotional stuff, I know you here as I have seen your threads here, you have been amazing working with various forums. So you would be ideal for me if I would ever need promotions. Thank you so much for the time and writing to my thread in reply, much appreciated.

Ah thank you so much Nomad for liking my forum and the idea about it. I also like ChatGPT and have been using so much for all kind of things, I thought I should make a community specially for this tool where we can learn and exchnge ideas and talk about AI tools. But sadly, as I mentioned above, I can not give time to it. Even though I like that forum idea and I am still very much interested in it. I hope soon I will be able to spare some time and start spending time there. You are always welcome to join anytime :)

The .com domain has long been seen as the gold standard, offering familiarity, trust, and professionalism. It's easy to remember and often the default people type when searching for a site. While newer extensions like .io, .blog, or .store work well for niche audiences or trendy industries, .com still holds an edge, especially for businesses targeting a broad audience. I would say ultimately, a great website matters more than the domain extension. A .com can enhance credibility, but it’s not essential for success.

I create travel vlogs, and since I’m currently in Canada, my content is mostly about walking, talking, and sharing my experiences. I upload regularly and keep it real! 😊 My goal is to hit $100 by the end of this month, and I’m super excited about it. It’s a realistic target—if you do a little research, you’ll see the potential. There’s this amazing YouTuber who inspired me; watching her videos really motivated me to give this a try. I’ve spent so much time and money writing blogs on my various websites, yet I barely earn a dollar a month from them. Meanwhile, YouTube has already started paying me! Big YouTubers make millions every month, and even smaller channels with around 30,000 subscribers can easily earn $10,000. I currently have just 3,500 subscribers, and even at this level, I’m on track to make $100 a month. When it comes to monetization, YouTube is king. On the other hand, I have a huge TikTok following—over 3.5 million likes and 160,000 followers—but it earns me nothing because TikTok isn’t monetized in Canada.

So kind of you, thank you for your input! You’re absolutely right about it. I already have the forum set up, and I hope to get back to it and stay active there. Hopefully, I’ll be able to find an audience for it too. Thank you so much for your valuable feedback! 4o

it is legit 100%, I also made youtube channel and it got monitzed last month, I made around 70 dollars a month. I would 100% recommend you do that, initially its a struggle but whatever you do, record it and without any fancy editing you can publish videos. Even if yuou are sitting in your car or at home, just pick a nich which you are expert on, talking about finance, entertainment, motivation or whatver you are good at, just press the button on your phone camera and record and upload on youtube. Trust me that lady is making over 9 thousand dollars now. You can watch her videos and you will see what I am trying to say. I want everyone here to be succesful and share my expeirance, it might make someone's life better and I would be happy if I make a change :)

Oh thank you so much for clarifying that there is no error, about email configration, I am going to check why it has happened. Thank you so much for pointing that to me. Update:- Strange, I checked everything was fine but still my forum (Xenforo) was not sending emails, in the error email. Only today I found out about spamrl dot com that website was blocking my emails. Strange I never knew that, I thought I would mention this here in case it might help others or maybe if someone knows about spamrl, please let me know if that is real or what? Here is now below screenshot, according to spamrl, my domain is now selflisted 🙄 I do not know if Xenforo has to do something with this or it was my hosting. But lets see if my site will send emails or not, I need to wait for sometime until these changes happen! If anyone knows about spamrl, please comment if that is real or I am on the wrong site? [ATTACH type=full" width="762px" size="2645x1709]416[/ATTACH]

Thanks [mention=7]Bryn[/mention] for the comment and letting me know about that error which Shawn mentioned. I think he needs to reset his chrome browser settings to by default. Because few days ago, I had same issues with other websites and there were random ads popping up on my browser too. I appearntly visited a website which caused that mess and then I had to reset my chrome settings and then everything went well but I had to login again to all the sites I saved my passwords :) Wowm YouChat? What's that, I never even heard and I am gonna jump in to that and see what is that :D You are always welcome to join :)

Thank you so much Shawn for letting me know, strange above Cedric and inMyOpinion above did not mention about this message, maybe they did not see it. I don't know why it shows like that to you. It could be maybe my domain name as its heavily targets chatgpt name in it :( I have no clue, I will see why it has happened, this is really bad, no one is gonna open my forum if they see this dangerous message :( So thanks for informing me, much appreciated. Editing my post:- update! I just checked in my google search console/ webmaster tools, it says no issues on the site. Maybe it could be your web browser I guess that can heppen too. I hope [mention=1]Cedric[/mention] and [mention=98]InMyOpinion[/mention] confirm to me if they saw the same error or not? please update me! thanks

Thank you so much for spending time and writing this awesome reply, much appreciated. Yeah you are so right, I should just focus on a couple of things at a time as its very hard to give time to so many places :( That's why I do not give time to this chatGPT forum for now my focus is on blogging so that I am activly doing. Thank you for the review about my forum, but sad I can see Shawn has just mentioned my forum gives some suspisous error, so I am gonna go and see why that is happened, strange you did not notice anything when visiting my forum and Cedric also did not say anything about it. But Shawn mentioned that in the screenshot, not sure where could be the issue. I will go and see what can be done :(

Welcome aboard, [mention=106]Chadook[/mention] ! Tthrilled to have you here and look forward to your contributions. Share your knowledge as well :)

Ah, now you see why I’ve been so frustrated! But I think you’re on the right track. Keep focusing on this Administrata work for now, it has real potential, and I can see that. Honestly, I love being here. It’s not just the forum’s sections and concept that are amazing; the color scheme is great too! Most importantly, you’ve got an active and wonderful community. Once this forum is stable and has grown significantly, then you can dive into your next project!

Awesome, I run two wordpress sites and on both I have gerenatepress preimum themes! I just upgraded my sites to the latest wordpress and everything looks fine. Sad I can not feel the new features of default themese as I have third party themes :)

Thank you Cedric, should I submit here or you will be making another thread for new submissions ?

Awww, thank you so much for your kind words! I’m glad you like the greenish color scheme—it’s one of my favorites too. It reminds me of greenish ChatGPT's logo I had in mind when I first started that forum. The challenge for me, though, is that I’ve got my feet in too many boats, trying to manage so many forums at once. It’s hard to give each one the focus it deserves. Sometimes I regret starting so many, but honestly, I just love creating spaces for all kinds of audiences to connect and share.

oh, I just saw this today, and it is 15 November here in Canada Not sure if the date of submission has passed :) Otherwise I could submit my one forum too here for entry 😩

oh wow, how I missed this section fo the forum. I love it! It's great idea to help people with their communities by voting system. I have voted my first ever vote on the internet in the forums world :D All these forums are amazing in their own ways! Let's see who wins!

Hi friends, I’ve never posted a thread like this before because I’m usually cautious about sharing my site links on forums—it often attracts spam and even hackers. However, since joining Administrata a week ago, I’ve really grown to love this community. Even when I’m not actively posting, I keep this forum open 24/7 in my browser because the people here are genuine and absolutely awesome. So, I thought I’d take a leap and showcase one of my forums for those who are interested in ChatGPT or other AI tools. I’m not super active on it yet as I’m currently focused on my blogging websites and other forums about traveling and pets, but I plan to get more involved soon. Here’s the link to my forum—let me know what you think! Does the theme and color scheme work? Is it a good idea? Your feedback would mean a lot and help me improve it further. Thanks a ton! Cheers!

I totally get where you're coming from, saving up while juggling bills and part-time work isn’t easy at all. Building up a little financial cushion is such a great goal, though, so props to you for focusing on it! For a second gig idea, maybe something like remote work could be an option? It sounds like you’ve got solid experience with customer service, so you might be able to find online positions where you can use those skills. There are often part-time options for things like virtual assistance, customer support, or even freelance tasks that don’t involve risking life and limb in traffic! And who knows, sometimes new opportunities pop up where you least expect them. Just keep an eye out, and don’t be hard on yourself. You’re already taking steps in the right direction, and that’s something to be proud of! From your DoorDash experience, I remember, there is a lady on youtube, she was struggling for like 4 years and totally broke. She then started showing her DoorDash deliveries in her youtube vlogs and in 2 months she gained from 3 hundred subscribers to 55 thousand subscribers and on her first month she made over 6 thousand dollars on youtube and the previous month she made over 9 thousand dollars. She is blowing up now a days on youtube and left DoorDash and sits at home, makes money. If you want you can check her journey for just motivation (DoughDash) is her youtube channel. I am just giving you an idea, it might open up new ideas for you and can lead to success. Wishing you all the best bro.

Your goals sound awesome! Getting debt under control is such a big step , even if it’s not overwhelming, having it in check must feel like a huge relief. And congrats on the growth of your YouTube and Facebook channels! It’s not easy getting to those numbers, so hitting 21K on Facebook and 6K on YouTube is something to be proud of! I am still struggling with my youtube channel and have only 3K subs, on the other hand facebook does not give a damn about my page, even I am very active but it just does not reach to the new audience. I run multiple blogging sites but Google's march update has killed my sites and now almost at zero traffic no matter what I do :( I think starting passive income projects and launching podcasts with Serious Bloggers sounds super exciting. that's my goal too and out goals are so much similar :oops:. Those ventures can open so many doors and give you that financial freedom everyone’s after. And I totally get the bike and hike part, finding balance is key, right? Best of luck with everything, and keep us posted on your progress. Rooting for you all the way!