Premium Special To Celebrate Phoronix's 18th Birthday

[obri]

Happy Birthday phoronix!

I hope you get more subscribers and ad revenue to get a good income!

[holunder]

Congratulations on 18 years Phoronix!
For the financial side, maybe you should try to do some YouTube with native advertisements… It’s sad that it has come to this but if the written articles don’t generate enough revenue, maybe you need to pivot – just a bit – to video. Phoronix Premium lifetime member here! At the end, reporting about general Linux news and graphic stack updates seems to be your fulfillment, you can do this in video formats too. I’m not proposing closing this site but just maybe try to 'diversify' your work. A YouTube channel could maybe funnel back new readers to Phoronix and now with the SteamDeck Linux boom, the theoretical reach of your expertise never had a bigger audience.

[cynic]

Hi Michael,

congratulation for the milestone!

I do really appreciate your hard work: I can always find some interesting news or benchmark at whatever hour of the day!
Your dedication is impressive and I hope you can afford to run Phoronix for many more years to come.

As my little contribution, I'm going to renews my subscription again and again.

[Linuxxx]

Linuxxx I don't think this was meant as a farewell post...

Sure, if you fail to see the writing on the wall...

Let me take a wild guess:
Until recently, even in your wildest dreams/nightmares, you just couldn't imagine the devil's graphical incarnation called nVidia ever working on an open-source Linux kernel driver, right?

[bavay]

First, congratulations for keeping going for 18 years! It's one thing to get something running a few times over a few months and then moving to something else and on the other hand, remaining faithful to your project and vision daily for 18 years! As a side note, I don't know how many people do the same, but although I am premium member, I often forget to log in until I want to post something in the forums. This means that my traffic appears as a free-rider with an ad blocker although I am a premium member (and I log in from several distinct computers, therefore I usually don't remain automatically logged in).

[baka0815]

Linuxxx I don't think this was meant as a farewell post...

[Linuxxx]

Michael

Yeah, I think calling it quits on Phoronix & taking on a regular job at a tech-company is the best path forward for You personally.
After all, You've got a family to look after, and relying on ad-money alone for the majority of Your income simply can't cut it anymore in the age of YouTube & Co.

Of course I'm going to miss visiting Your site daily (and seeing all those beautiful ads ), but nothing good lasts forever anyway...

Thanks for all the manpower You spent around here, which genuinely has helped to improve the Linux landscape immensely.

May Your legacy live on in the form of the Phoronix Test Suite!

[Mahboi]

Phoronix's annoying uncle: - Congrats, now you can get your drivers license soon and drive down to Walmart to buy Microsoft™'s™ Windows™ 11™ and stop tinkering with all your loonix junk in the garage!

But seriously congratulations, 18 years is a long time.

[Paradigm Shifter]

Legal drinking age in Japan is 20.

Michael; I've got a chunk of BAT from using Brave as my default browser which I'd be happy to send Phoronix's way if you verify the site.
Of course, the volatility of crypto in general means the value fluctuates wildly (what was more than $20 a few weeks ago is now about $4...) so I understand if it's a series of obstacles you don't want to have to navigate.

[CochainComplex]

That has to be one of the reasons Michael likes Germany (or at least Bavaria) that much.
You're allowed to drink beer and wine here at the age of 16 (even in public).

So much about US has the most freedoms