Slavemaster.. the end of an era?
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Over the years the Slavemaster site has evolved, almost with a life of it's own. What started out as a few personal pages and a handful of images all designed to get me laid grew to a site that tried to build a local community. Galleries came and went, Kinky Sex Guides came and went, resource pages came and went.
The big problem was trying to do too many things with it, trying to be too many things to too many people. And therein lay it's downfall. While it tried to do many things, getting help with content was impossible, and frankly nobody really read the content anyway. Google Analytics showed that people just looked at the picture galleries or browsed through the perve register to get laid. Even the register was a hit and miss affair with many registered members opting to hide their profiles.
When the site was first launched I managed to get more hits and serve more pages than the 5FM (local pop radio station) website. (over 100 000 hits and 600 000 pages in 24 hrs, boy was my web host pissed off...) Over the years the numbers have fluctuated wildly and now it is a shadow of it's former glory. After more than 12 years of supporting the site financially, writing and creating the content and promoting the local community, the time has come to make a decision: Does it still serve a purpose? I'm doubtful.
The Kinky Sex Guides have been re-written and are soon to be a series of small books. The rest.. well since I closed the Studio and retired from the local Leather scene I have more or less been shunned by the local community. The time has come to make the decision on whether to continue it or not.
The options I have are simple. I can just close it down, sell the domain and the IP, or turn it into a pay per view porn site.
The latter seems to be the most interesting ...
Over the years the Slavemaster site has evolved, almost with a life of it's own. What started out as a few personal pages and a handful of images all designed to get me laid grew to a site that tried to build a local community. Galleries came and went, Kinky Sex Guides came and went, resource pages came and went.
The big problem was trying to do too many things with it, trying to be too many things to too many people. And therein lay it's downfall. While it tried to do many things, getting help with content was impossible, and frankly nobody really read the content anyway. Google Analytics showed that people just looked at the picture galleries or browsed through the perve register to get laid. Even the register was a hit and miss affair with many registered members opting to hide their profiles.
When the site was first launched I managed to get more hits and serve more pages than the 5FM (local pop radio station) website. (over 100 000 hits and 600 000 pages in 24 hrs, boy was my web host pissed off...) Over the years the numbers have fluctuated wildly and now it is a shadow of it's former glory. After more than 12 years of supporting the site financially, writing and creating the content and promoting the local community, the time has come to make a decision: Does it still serve a purpose? I'm doubtful.
The Kinky Sex Guides have been re-written and are soon to be a series of small books. The rest.. well since I closed the Studio and retired from the local Leather scene I have more or less been shunned by the local community. The time has come to make the decision on whether to continue it or not.
The options I have are simple. I can just close it down, sell the domain and the IP, or turn it into a pay per view porn site.
The latter seems to be the most interesting ...
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