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The site is going to see some UI changes at some point anyway - vB v4.0 is coming out soon with some fairly significant changes to the design (although I won't be upgrading as soon as it is released). I'm not talking about anything completely radical - just updating the design to take current...

Quite true unfortunately - most of the effort has gone into maintaining the back-end (and the forums themselves). Almost no effort has gone into updating the UI in quite a few years. That was mostly deliberate (to maintain a well known look-and-feel for our users) - but I agree that it is well...

True - the site costs a lot less to host now than it did 7 years ago - especially given the growth in traffic and bandwidth usage. Interestingly, one of my other sites (ZooChat) which sees around half the monthly traffic that Somersoft does, uses roughly 4-5 times the amount of bandwidth -...

You are quite correct. The cost of hosting is relatively small compared to the overall cost of managing the forums (by which I'm not referring to just the technical aspects of operating a website).

I'd rather not go into specifics.

I won't go into details on the costs - Jan and Ian currently pay all operating costs out of their own pockets.

Nope - the owners of the site just want it to continue to be a great resource for property investors. That was their goal when they started it, that still is their goal now. I disagree. IPB is good - but I don't think there is a need to migrate off vB, it does everything we need it to and is...

That is obviously a concern and would need to be considered before any plans for the future development of the site were made. Jan and Ian have always made it clear that they would prefer the site to remain as independent as possible and free from marketing. However, the reality is that as...

Sorry - the data on that site is complete inaccurate. All of their estimates are more like complete guesses based on other unrelated data. I would pay no attention to it at all. There are many methodologies for valuing websites - some are based on traffic, some are based on the quality of the...