I am puzzled by people on these forums who appear to have a problem with GoKunming making money. How is the site supposed to stay afloat in the long term? How are the owners and staff supposed to pay their rent?
I think it is simply wrong to use a service while vocally begrudging its providers fair recompense for their labors, especially when the service is provided free of charge to users.
If you're so enamored of the idea of people doing work for free and you're not satisfied with this website, why not practice what you preach and start your own zero-revenue site? The time, money and technical skills required are minimal these days with WordPress and the like.
Or could it be that the people who were running GoKunming as a "simple, free bulletin board" back in the day realized that it wasn't a sustainable model? And perhaps you will discover the same if you try.
Instead, how about we all make an ongoing effort to patronize GoKunming's advertisers and to tell them we found out about them through their ads on the website? Maybe then there would be more resources for the team to deal with the various issues that I and others have been complaining about on the feedback thread and elsewhere.
(For the record, I do not know any of GoKunming's owners or staff and have no connection to them other than my posts under this account.)
Seen on the Kunming music scene: Puddles
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A tale of countryside drinking in Yunnan, or How I killed all the fish
Posted byAlternate title: "Fear and Loathing in Honghe County"
Property conglomerate Hang Lung opens Spring City 66, Kunming's tallest building
Posted byAt a venue such as this, a mere cappucino will not do. A ristretto double-shot pumpkin spice organic skim frappucino is the bare minimum.
Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
Posted by@sezupom wrote: "My only critique is the name "pain campagnard"... such a added-value fancy way of saying country bread to mark up the price of bread."
"Pain campagnard" (or more commonly "pain de campagne") is a specific name used by bakeries in France for a particular type of bread. Just calling something "country bread" in English could mean anything.
Yunnan gearing up for 2020 Gaoligong Ultra by UTMB, 4,000 runners expected
Posted by@Ishmael wrote: "Or does anybody think that sports should be celebrated in the manner of a KISS (band) video?"
You say that like it's bad thing. I guess you haven't seen the video for "Lick It Up".