Changes on GayThailand.com

[TotallyOz]

We have been working hard trying to find a nice balance on the site that benefits profile members, forum members and management. We have changed directions a few times over the course of the past few years. We will continue to evolve the site in order to make it better and more functional as well as use more social media tools.

 

We will be downsizing the flirt banners at the top of the pages. They will remain there but only one row of guys and smaller size of photos. We have initiated gaythailandlive.com (our site but managed by Flirt4Free) to replace these banners which will be the main source of revenue from the site. All members will receive an email from gaythailandlive.com. It is the same Flirt company as we currently use. The email will have an opt out option for gaythailandlive.com. Click the link to opt out if you do not wish to receive further emails from the gaythailandlive.com site and you will not receive any other emails from them. As new members register, they will also get a free credit email from them which they can continue to receive or opt out of.

 

Other than these flirt guys, we are removing all of the porn video links on the site. We will also remove all other porn areas of the site. The forums do not currently have the porn video links but the other links are also being removed.

 

We will be replacing the porn with 2 other affiliate programs. One is World Nomads Travel Insurance and the other is Agoda. Both will have links on all pages similar to the one right beneath the homepage flirt boys banner. They will be small text links on all pages of the site. In addition, we will have World Nomads banners at the bottom of the pages.

 

Our goal is to make these as non intrusive as possible while still having them on the site. We will test this for a few months and see the result and modify them if they are not working for us.

 

We plan to keep updating all Thailand related business establishments and try to be the best place for finding information related to gay Thailand. We were going to do this pretty fast but several people seem to be upset that we were using the forums for "advertisements." That is not the case. We are trying to make the most comprehensive listing of any site that deals with gay Thailand. As we don't want members to get upset, we have slowed this pace down a great deal.

 

We want to say a special thank you to Fountainhall who has helped us with the collection of the listings for Gay Bangkok. It was a big undertaking and he has truly helped us in so many ways over the years but his research into this project has been indispensable. His gentle "nudges" to update the listings have not gone on deaf ears and we are working hard to get these totally up to date.

 

We appreciate all our members and posters on the site and we want to say thank you for your loyalty over the years.

[williewillie]

I used agoda frequently for hotel reservations and have had very good results.

 

Would clicking the agoda banner on gaythailand.com add income to the forum?  It would be a little thing

to do if it helped maintain the forum.

[baobao]

I've also been a fan of Agoda for quite a while. I don't use them exclusively, and they can be somewhat problematic if you need to do anything other than choose and pay for a room, but while they've been a bit clumsy to deal with they have been able to resolve a few things over the years in a fair manner.  

 

While I haven't used them through other sites if they were available here I'd click/book through the banner here to give the forum it's small share, no problem at all.  

 

As for the reduction of porn and thumbnails at the top of the pages I'm more than fine with that, too. Thanks!