Given that most of my articles, and many of the substantial posts started by the other frontpagers are on the front page, I'm not sure how to take this, quite frankly.
Well not personally, anyway. I'm not in the business of criticising people who give of their time on a voluntary basis. They usually have 10 people telling them what to do for every one person actually willing to help.
The whole point of having some structure and organisation is to create a more enjoyable, less frustrating, and more productive output for any given level of effort for all concerned. If it doesn't achieve that, then don't do it. I'm not seeing a lack of enthusiasm or effort, but I'm not sure either whether people are getting as much out of their experience and effort as they might.
Much of the stuff written here deserves a wider audience. Many of the members are activists who want to be more effective in their social engagement and use of time. I've been drifting away and looking for more effective forms of engagement elsewhere because we seem to be writing for a very small audience of the largely converted here in any case. I would be prepared to give more time and make a financial contribution if I felt we were going somewhere. You probably have a lot of latent goodwill which is not being tapped into.
So I'm not 100% convinced of the time argument - some of it may be addressed through better organisation and involvement of people who do have time/resources to give. I also agree with TBG's comment below that funding from EU/national sources should be possible give the huge budgets devoted to EU communications - provided we can all be satisfied that any such funding wouldn't influence or compromise our independence in any way.
I know this sounds horribly commercial, but you do have an established brand which you are not leveraging very much. I see someone else has now taken up the Eurotribune.eu and .net domains and styles themselves as "The European Tribune: Independent Journal - and is sometimes ranked above Eurotrib in google rankings. You stand still in this game, and you could lose prominence very quickly.
But it's your game, and up to you to decide what you want to do with it. You've achieved an awful lot already - the question is where do you want to take it from here - if anywhere in particular. My sense is that we need to move on - but if that sense isn't shared then I may have to move on on my own. This is NOT a criticism - sometimes people going their separate ways is the best for all concerned, and either way I wish you the very best. "It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
