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I'm trying to find a nugget of humor in the fact that's it's been over a month since we've had an episode. If my girlfriend told me it's been over a month since her last "episode", I'd be asking some serious questions. Can you see a nugget in there?

Realistically, I don't think we should get our hopes up about the greatness of the next episode. Zadi and Steve have given us nothing but the best they can, every time. As wonderful, insightful and fun as it is, how can we expect anything more than their best? So, to suggest this next episode will be better that all the others simply because of the excess amount of time they've taken to launch, is quixotic and delusional.

We're assuming that all this time is spent on the production of the episode, when Steve himself has stated it's all back end stuff so they don't end up begging for alms at the local religious depot or charging the few precious members for access to the "exclusive" content or end up with a Denial of Service because of bandwidth issues. (Lets hope they don't use Comcast.) Compared to other networks, this is a relatively small community, and my business sense tells me that only about 10% of Epic-Fu's users would actually pay for access to the site, which probably wouldn't be worth it.

My business sense: 90% of your business is from the top 10% of your customers. Cater to them and you're business will grow. Considering that Epic-Fu is making $0 directly from it's users, I think it's safe to say they have no one to cater to but the bottom 100% of it's customers. How do you grow with that kind of demographic?

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think.danijel Comment by think.danijel on May 3, 2008 at 2:06am
Nice post, Grendel. I'm really exited about the changes in near future.
Steve Woolf Comment by Steve Woolf on May 2, 2008 at 5:13pm
nice post, grendel. i think we have a weird mental block when it comes for asking our viewers to pay for episodes. voluntary donation is one thing, but even then we feel weird about it.

next week we'll finally be able to post a promo video to let people know when to expect the next episode. it's been an interesting month+ while we've been trying to figure out the long-term plan for EPIC-FU. at no time have we ever considered shutting it down.

the one thing we definitely regret is not being able to communicate to you guys properly about why the show has been dark for so long. we still can't do that yet, but it should become clear in short order.

thanks for being such a great viewer and mix member.
Derek Comment by Derek on May 2, 2008 at 12:35pm
I swear to God that, although I been on Epic-FU a lot of time, I swear I pulled out in time.

We're a global band of kids/geeks/freaks who love art/tech/gaming/music/politics & life. Love the web. Live the FU.

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