so it all boils down to money. it's not a cost effective to run chat but how do you make an ad free platform cost effective? put up ads like all the others. now up front Ill say that i hate ads. we are deluged with ads

all. the. time.

But if you toss a sidebar ad on here that was tasteful and not tracked or cookied to death it might be an acceptable thing if we can get the privacy of a chat channel back. we don't have to have the same ad model others have. something that we all find useful or might find useful, i could live with ads if they stayed here and somehow didn't follow me when I was online like other advertisements seem to. 

Anyway just a thought some low non invasive ads might be a solution if money is the issue. perhaps if we generated sale of sorts they might be open to better features for the site?

i know i like coming here for the very fact it's ad free. this would be a huge concession since this idea was probably discussed once before and rejected because frankly no one likes ads all the time. shit just advertise Nirvana and take a portion of the ad budget. 😏