2024’s Version of the Chorus Update

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Last year, I wrote about the annual state of Chorus in August. The state of the website was, more or less, that costs had increased, ad revenue had decreased, and supporter revenue had more or less stayed the same.

This year, I’m only a couple of months behind my already haphazard schedule of checking in on everything. Packing up a home and moving will toss everything into disarray like that.

The story of the past year is similar, with a few new bright spots.

The website’s costs have remained flat. I forecast that within the next twelve months, I’ll need to upgrade the forum server’s hard drive space again (we’re a little over half full, mostly from image attachments).

Ad revenue continues to be predictable and predictably less than the year before.

Supporter revenue continues to be strong and growing, which is why I can run this website and community.

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Eight Years.

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I officially launched Chorus on April 1st, 2016. That means today is our eight year anniversary. By most estimates, I started AbsolutePunk in 1999. So, the first “era” was 1999 to 2008 when the company was purchased by Spin. About 9 years. The Spin era then lasted from 2008 to 2016. Eight years. I’ve now run Chorus roughly the same amount of time as I ran AbsolutePunk during its growing phase and then its explosive phase.

Wild.

Thanks for being along for the ride. I can say without a shadow of doubt that these last eight years have been the most rewarding of my internet life. We’re not the biggest website in the world, but I have a space to write and talk about music and other things I love, every single day. And that’s exceptionally fulfilling. Also, a special thank you to everyone who is a supporting member of this website for helping us continue to do what we do.