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Originally posted by eroswebmaster
Not only do they have to go out and spends $1,000's on new content each month so the site will retain..but now they must spend $1,000's on new gallery designs that they then host for you....but wait that's not enough....they now must make it even easier..sure any sponsor is probably gonna do that if asked nicely...but come the fuck on when does it stop?
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Isn't the point that if a sponsor is going to go down a particular marketing route, it is in HIS interest to do the job properly?
Put it in perspective: there are surely many more, but I'm aware of over 300 sponsors with 40,000+ hosted galleries between them. If I could completely process a gallery per minute [and you can't come close to that with the vast majority of sponsors], that lot would take two months working 12-hours a day, 7 days a week. Then add in most of a day every week to stay on top of additions and deletions...
TGP's simply don't need that many galleries or even gain anything from attempting to use them all, so it is inevitable they are going to be selective. These days you can weed out the sponsors with crap galleries, those who insist on using multiple versions of the same gallery, and the ones with codes that stop your software scanning the gallery to create thumbs, and there are still too many. So you skip past the ones which make you jump through hoops to collect the URL's, etc., etc.
There must have been a half-dozen threads here on this topic so far this year and slowly sponsors are taking notice. I remember 10,000 FHG's being a kind of landmark: now more than that come with decent descriptions. There's a long way to go, but sponsors who want their FHG programs to be successful are going to have to make them competitive and that should ensure progress.
Don't forget too that most of the complaints about FHG's don't need any serious money to resolve. They require only that when the lists are being coded, whoever is doing it puts himself in the place of the webmaster he wants to use them. If the list cannot be imported easily into all the popular TGP scripts and provide at least the information the big TGP's routinely display, he should go back to the drawing board.