Talk:MAYU/@comment-24.72.8.103-20180825052341/@comment-53539-20180827230811

I find it hard to believe much has changed as the basic premise is "renew page, get coins" ad its how it earns money.

It had ads so for every renewed page, the site owners get 1 cent or so per page renewal. If you have 1000 people who do it once you earn $10. That doesn't seem much, but you can often have 1000+ users all the time on the site at any time, so each hour it may earn $10 easy, in a 24 hour period it can earn $240. Thats $1,680 a week and $50,400 in a month $604,800 in a year. IT depends on the ad revenue, and there are expenses such as site maintenance and web hosting to see to... But a lot of these type of sites can survive without charging anyone a penny for any service.

Its not 100% foolproof and there is a lot more involved making it less simple, but this is why sites like this exist. Also its kinda why the wikia system has ads. Wikia earns a lot of ad revenue from it. The basic site runs on code which needs a person to code it or "persons", which can cost some $500-$2000 per month depending on the situation and what is required of them. So to have hundreds of thousands of visitors a day visit the overall wikia site and its off shouts pays for the cost to maintain it. Wikipedia on the other hand asked for donations of some $150,000 at least a year from its patrons to keep itself going as it has no ads to draw ad revenue from. :-/