As a experienced web developer and a webmistress, I would say that they can't possibly earn anything right now. They haven't placed any advertisements on the website nor on these forums - how can they earn any money from the traffic? ^.^'dollly wrote:hahaha you've all been punk'd, i think this forum is a psycological test by someone with a very sick mind..... they just want to see how far you can make nothing go...... prolly getting a nickle a hit for web traffic and makin some of their loss up
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If anything they are loosing bandwidth.
From my assumption right now, they are simply waiting for Ryzom's bankruptcy and negative impressions to die down - only the (sub-)contracted developers do not have the knowhow on how to set up the forums and kilents behind the scene. If it was me I would have created a second copy of the forum and worked on it, same for klients - it isn't really difficult to disable access to a IRC shell.