Long time no see!

Welcome back Eury! Glad you stopped by before the 5 year anniversary.

Under Eury's original post,there is a link to subscribe to this post. However, the new site features will expand on this allowing you to subscribe to this post, this forum, this author, etc.

Are you talking about more, as in the new stuff I'm adding? Or more in addition to that? Cause I'd love to hear some suggestions. I like getting input.

Advertising has worked for us in the past. I intend to do it again. But recently when I tried it, I got people here but they didn't stay. Seemed a waste of a lot of hard earned money. I decided to spend that money on the "complete" development of the site, to the way I had originally planned for the site to be 5 years ago. We're really close to having that now. It's been a long and slow process and I knew the site would suffer some with the lack of community and activity, but I was looking at the goal and not the journey there. . When we have the site to a point where people will stay here when they come, I'll put that money back into advertising. And when the site starts generating funds, I'll put that into advertising. Because the more people that browse the site, the more potential customers for our artists to sell their artwork. . As I promised in the past, Artalyst will never go away. Its been a slow, but exponential, rise to completion. It was just a one man team for a long time, now its a two man team. I never had external financial help, no rich uncles, no bank want to finance artsy sites, so it made the crawl to this point slow. But what waits around the corner will be great, I know it.

Oh I know you guys are of the most loyal site members. Just thought you had more suggestions you were holding back from me ;-) . Soon the new site will be available online so people can test it out and give feedback before going live.