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Minimum questions of $1? And other experiments

According to Google Analytics, traffic to WP Questions continues to slowly grow.
Sadly, in terms of money, the site has seen a slight decline over the last 6 months:

I’ve been thinking about what might make this site successful. There are a number of experiments I’d like to try:
1.) askers need fast help, so chat [...]

Some charts of site activity and money

How many winners per week?
How much money per week?
How many refunds per week?
These are good questions. And we’ve been flying blind for too long.
We have now added some charts to the software. These charts used HTML5 features such as “canvas”, so you need a new browser. There are problems in even the newest versions [...]

Our donations program will soon be controlled by voting

We are changing the way we give money to developers.
Since this site began, we have had a donations program through which we gave money to various themes and plugin developers:

This program never amounted to huge money, but we did have 4 projects that eventually got over $100.
But all of this is about [...]

Minor bug fixes

We are rolling out some minor bug fixes and some tweaks to the interface. Among other things, when askers are picking winners, they will now be reminded that they can divide the prize money:

(The image is from our dev site, whose database was last updated from the live site in mid-February.)
Since, often, multiple people contribute [...]

More Affiliate Opportunities Added

Last month we announced a couple new affiliate options geared toward theme and plugin authors. This month we have added a more conventional third option geared toward bloggers.
Registered users can now log in to their control panel and click the “Affiliate Info” tab. There you’ll see your custom affiliate code, plus a list of [...]

New Feature: Email Updates

To make WPQuestions more time-sensitive, we’ve added a few email update features.

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