Last Chance to Save BeginnerTriathlete

Hello All,

Thanks so much for your continued support and participation over the years.

I wrote a post several months ago indicating that I planned to institute a minimum charge to use the training logs.
As it turns out, implementing that change will cost a lot of programming money and isn't possible due to the cost.

Therefore I'll need to rely on you kind people to voluntarily increase your membership from Free to Bronze, or consider stepping up to the next level if you are already subscribing with a paid membership.

I'm going to give it three months and see if we can build enough paid membership to keep the lights on. If we have to shut it down, you can export your logs for free so you don't lose your training data.

Each month I take my own money and put it into BT to keep the hosting going and to pay for the little software memberships that keep the site running. (For example, there's a plugin called LogInRadius that allows people to sign in with Google or Facebook instead of remembering their password. That costs money. You might think, well, just get rid of that. But then people will email me asking for help resetting their password, which could be connected to a very old email address they can't get to anymore. That takes a lot of time, so that's even worse than paying for the plugin. I also renew the trademark, pay for hosting, email capabilities, etc.) This month it is $750 dollars that I'm injecting into BT. I'm not willing to keep doing that.

At its peak in 2010, BT had 3,200 paid members. Today we have 97, down from 126 a year ago. I know there are good reasons and I'm not trying to guilt anyone into it - just laying out the facts.

Thank you for your continued membership and I'm optimistic I'll see a bunch of new paid memberships come in. If not, we'll announce a date and give everyone time to retrieve their data.





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