In reply to anon.

LOL... yeah, I'll leave that alone

the website design is very cool, I really like the clean layout

on the pricing side of things, it seems a bit off, unless the per user fee refers to "active" users, however you want to define that.

Most social networks have a core of active users and a bunch of lurkers or non-users. IOW people that may have signed up or been active users at some point but who left or have no intention of being a part of the network any more.

the same dynamic is seen on blogs and forums, many more read than comment, many more comment than those that comment regularly.

because of this, charging $3 or $5 per user can become exorbitant as a network grows.

for example: 400 users of which maybe 210 are active or semi-active users would be $1200 to $2000 a month. having a self-hosted and managed network would probably cost half that in monthly expenses or less:

fully managed SSD VPS hosting $70/month
occasional troubleshoot/maintenance $350/month

just my 2 c worth