Posted by member 386447 on 2007-10-15 08:22:31 link

The reason there are so many registrations is because the you, the administrators, force them to. How many of those are repeat visitors? And do you troll bugmenot for accounts to kill? If so, why?

Most of this site could be done with fewer images, less markup, and less dynamic code, which would lead to significantly less bandwidth and server processor usage. I find it hard to believe that server costs, which should be ridiculously low, have anything to do with registration policy.

Assuming the site were trimmed to be lean, which it's not, then you could restrict images to registered users -- the code, discussion, and module info is what most people care about. You'd end up ahead.

Not to mention that a lot of this could off-loaded to other sites for free (wikis for infrequently-changed information like wikia, jotspot; shell-tweak related files at an on-topic file host like tucows; themes at a site like customize.org or dA, which both have LS categories already).