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Important: FastDay has reached a crossroads
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We've had a busy old year here at FastDay, what with our shiny new look and developing our free & premium programs with Ways of Eating.
Blood, sweat, tears and a whole lot of time has gone in to all of this and we're so glad to have received some lovely feedback about the new site.
However as you may know, my health has not been great over the last few years. Since my pulmonary emboli I have been struggling to juggle my workload let alone have any kind of life beyond work. In the last few months I have had to make some decisions about changes in my life so that I can try to start living again.
Earlier this year when we developed our fasting programs it felt like exciting times and I was keen to get the site revamped and fresh. It took longer and more effort than I had anticipated, but I truly gave it my all. I wanted this to be a lasting legacy, as I planned to reduce my working hours with a view to passing the FastDay torch back to the team and focusing on my main job instead.
With my need to leave for the sake of my health, we have had to look at the situation realistically. I have always believed in openness and honesty with the community and so here are our cards on the table so to speak.
Sadly for the team, FastDay has not been making any money. It is not even covering its own costs anymore. We relocated to a new, cheaper server in a bid to slow down the financial drain but this is not a solution in itself. Our free program is doing quite well and we had hoped that with the revamp and reduced bills, coupled with folks opting in to the paid program that we might be able to make ends meet and eventually start to turn a small profit. It seems we were over optimistic about the success of the program and uptake to the paid version has not been as we hoped.
I'm sure you can understand that things cannot go on like this indefinitely. The company is not in a position to take on someone else to run the forum and now there is a hard decision to be made.
We see two options:
Close the FastDay site, forum etc and FastDay as a company.
Give the site to someone else and just close FastDay as a company.
It's just not viable as a business without someone who can put a lot more time and energy into it than I am able to. It's a sad day indeed when it comes to this kind of decision, especially after all the work that has gone in to this, the wealth of knowledge & experience the site & forum contains and the lovely community itself.
We would far prefer the site to keep running, but we cannot do this as a company anymore.
It would be amazing if someone out there was willing to take on the site (and its associated costs) and run it as a hobby. Perhaps one day they'd like to run it as a business themselves or try to cover the costs with sponsorship or advertising. I know there are a few webby types among us and I think it's important that whoever takes the site on has some experience with running a website & forum.
So there we have it. That's the situation.
It would be such a shame for all this to just be gone - I don't want you all to lose your trackers, blogs & everything else here. I'm sorry it's come to this. I didn't know my decision would lead to this, but here we are.
If you are interested in taking on the site, please drop me a line.
Blood, sweat, tears and a whole lot of time has gone in to all of this and we're so glad to have received some lovely feedback about the new site.
However as you may know, my health has not been great over the last few years. Since my pulmonary emboli I have been struggling to juggle my workload let alone have any kind of life beyond work. In the last few months I have had to make some decisions about changes in my life so that I can try to start living again.
Earlier this year when we developed our fasting programs it felt like exciting times and I was keen to get the site revamped and fresh. It took longer and more effort than I had anticipated, but I truly gave it my all. I wanted this to be a lasting legacy, as I planned to reduce my working hours with a view to passing the FastDay torch back to the team and focusing on my main job instead.
With my need to leave for the sake of my health, we have had to look at the situation realistically. I have always believed in openness and honesty with the community and so here are our cards on the table so to speak.
Sadly for the team, FastDay has not been making any money. It is not even covering its own costs anymore. We relocated to a new, cheaper server in a bid to slow down the financial drain but this is not a solution in itself. Our free program is doing quite well and we had hoped that with the revamp and reduced bills, coupled with folks opting in to the paid program that we might be able to make ends meet and eventually start to turn a small profit. It seems we were over optimistic about the success of the program and uptake to the paid version has not been as we hoped.
I'm sure you can understand that things cannot go on like this indefinitely. The company is not in a position to take on someone else to run the forum and now there is a hard decision to be made.
We see two options:
Close the FastDay site, forum etc and FastDay as a company.
Give the site to someone else and just close FastDay as a company.
It's just not viable as a business without someone who can put a lot more time and energy into it than I am able to. It's a sad day indeed when it comes to this kind of decision, especially after all the work that has gone in to this, the wealth of knowledge & experience the site & forum contains and the lovely community itself.
We would far prefer the site to keep running, but we cannot do this as a company anymore.
It would be amazing if someone out there was willing to take on the site (and its associated costs) and run it as a hobby. Perhaps one day they'd like to run it as a business themselves or try to cover the costs with sponsorship or advertising. I know there are a few webby types among us and I think it's important that whoever takes the site on has some experience with running a website & forum.
So there we have it. That's the situation.
It would be such a shame for all this to just be gone - I don't want you all to lose your trackers, blogs & everything else here. I'm sorry it's come to this. I didn't know my decision would lead to this, but here we are.
If you are interested in taking on the site, please drop me a line.
