Author Topic: yorkshiregrit.com (Read 6669 times)

Jon Pearson · « **on:** September 04, 2011, 07:15:29 pm »

I'm looking for donations to keep yorkshiregrit.com running. I'm no longer interested in it myself and I'll kill it off unless it pays for itself. Cost is £24 per month. I'll keep it running as long as the donations I receive cover the cost.

http://www.yorkshiregrit.com/donations.html

Thanks all. I'll post here regularly to keep people informed about how it's going.

tomtom · « **Reply #1 on:** September 04, 2011, 07:20:38 pm »

Hey Jon,
I couldnt see a link to that page on the site (I may be blind/dumb/both) so how about a 'contribute here' button on the front page (or on the banner so its on every page) like Bubba used to have here on UKB.. not too intrusive..

Failing that, I'll leave £20 in used fivers in a manilla envelope stuffed in the cave under the Crucifix traverse

Tom

nai · « **Reply #2 on:** September 04, 2011, 07:34:11 pm »

that'll be the furthest right menu item that reads "Donations"

tomtom · « **Reply #3 on:** September 04, 2011, 07:35:05 pm »

Quote from: nai on September 04, 2011, 07:34:11 pm

that'll be the furthest right menu item that reads "Donations"

OK OK...

schloosh · « **Reply #4 on:** September 04, 2011, 09:16:09 pm »

£24 a month is hell expensive for a website like that, why is the cost so high?

yorkshireman · « **Reply #5 on:** September 05, 2011, 02:32:38 am »

bandwidth for the video's at a guess

Will Hunt · « **Reply #6 on:** September 05, 2011, 08:24:24 am »

A UKB takeover of YG.com if funding dries up?

rootask · « **Reply #7 on:** September 05, 2011, 09:27:32 am »

Hi Jon,

Are you going to be keeping the site up to date from now on? Or is this just to effectively keep it as it is? It's a wonderful resource but I understand it's an almost thankless ball ache for you. If you're sick of it I know at least a few people that would be willing to keep it updated and hopefully restore it to it's past glory. Just a thought anyway.

It's been a great source of inspiration to me over the years so a big thankyou for that

Jon Pearson · « **Reply #8 on:** September 05, 2011, 05:05:28 pm »

Thanks to everyone who's contributed. I've received enough to postpone the execution another month or so.

Will Hunt · « **Reply #9 on:** September 05, 2011, 05:09:15 pm »

Whatever you do, Jon, don't kill it! I'm sure you could find a buyer who would be willing to develop it and then at least you'd get something from the severance.

yorkshireman · « **Reply #10 on:** September 05, 2011, 05:35:58 pm »

im sure some form of advertising could easily cover the disclosed montly upkeep figure but he did state he wasnt really interested int he suite anymore which is a shame as its a great site,be nice if it could be sold to someone with new interest a vigour to keep it going and updated

Jon Pearson · « **Reply #11 on:** September 12, 2011, 07:07:44 pm »

Thanks again to everyone who has contributed. I've received enough to keep the site going until the end of the year now.

Jon Pearson · « **Reply #12 on:** September 13, 2011, 07:16:27 am »

... thanks also to the UKB team for pinning this post to the front page, and to Alan James for the free premier post on UKC.

tomtom · « **Reply #13 on:** September 13, 2011, 01:21:08 pm »

Hi Jon,
I'm sure you've thought of this but if the high cost is due to video bandwidth, have you thought about putting embedded youtube / vimeo up instead? Could make quite a difference in how much you're charged? (I pay £30 a year...)
Tom

andy_e · « **Reply #14 on:** September 13, 2011, 04:03:24 pm »

Will Hunt · « **Reply #15 on:** September 13, 2011, 06:13:55 pm »

That is a very good idea, TT. It sounds as though Jon is at the end of his tether with the site. I can't speak for Jon's level of computer expertise but I wouldn't know how to do this and it sounds like a potentially very big job. Is there a UKB volunteer task force who could do the implementation?

2e0hgr · « **Reply #16 on:** September 15, 2011, 11:37:12 am »

Hi,

Im new to this site, to bouldering and climbing in general (after years of too many beers and pies). I do know a bit about web design though, and I would be happy to help.

Embedding YouTube video is normally straightforward enough. The time consuming bit is uploading 100's of videos to them though. Depending on how yourkshiregrit is built though it would probably be possible to do them in batches.

PM me if I can get involved!

Stu

daprince · « **Reply #17 on:** September 15, 2011, 07:06:46 pm »

To good a resource to lose for my money. So have thrown a few quid in the pot and happy to do that as/when required.

Biggest problem really though seems to be that Jon has had enough of it and it's not evolving as a result. No slight on Jon's excellent efforts over the last 10 years. Perhaps ultimately it is too big an undertaking for one person. I would be happy to get involved too and have some web development experience as well but doubt I could do it on my own.

More to the point Jon is a pretty useful climber, something that I am not. Seems like it needs involvement from some people at the bouldering cutting edge as well as coding geeks. To filter out some of the "chaff" that will come along with the gems.

Would be a real shame to lose it as a resource though it got me up to Lord's Seat this summer I wouldn't have found it otherwise.

yorkshireman · « **Reply #18 on:** October 05, 2011, 03:47:07 pm »

is the site now gone?have tried the site a few times today and it just times out

Drew · « **Reply #19 on:** October 05, 2011, 06:59:21 pm »

Works for me.

yorkshireman · « **Reply #20 on:** October 06, 2011, 10:22:26 pm »

yeah seems to be working on my pc but not on my phone

andy_e · « **Reply #21 on:** October 23, 2011, 11:23:28 am »

Anyone else having problems? I hope Jon's not killed it, it's such a good resource and a source for 94% of my yorkshire psyche.

Bubba · « **Reply #22 on:** October 23, 2011, 11:44:30 am »

Yep, it's down.

GCW · « **Reply #23 on:** October 23, 2011, 04:59:26 pm »

Not worked for me for 48 hours

AndyR · « **Reply #24 on:** October 24, 2011, 02:37:51 am »

P is on holiday at the moment - don't think it's at top of his agenda...