[MetalAges]

Help me fully understand please, everything I have seen/read tells me that if I run Zoints, all the features etc. run off of the Zoints site which each member of my forum will have a profile they can set up there. I get linked back as them being part of my forum under "my communities".

It seems to have cool features etc. but the part I am having trouble understanding (from a business stand point) is why I would want to send my users to another site for some added features and a chance someone else will click the link to hop back to my forum. It just seems that I am funneling users away and losing out on any ad revenue I would gain by keeping them on my own site.

I understand it is a trade off (added experience to the user vs. standard profile) but am I wrong about anything above? I recently installed Photopost Pro, and am installing Classifieds and have the links directory started as added features. I'm looking to add more of course, and I was real excitred when I thought Zoints could be installed on my own server and have upgrades to introduce new features etc. Is there any chance that that will be a possibility one day?

Please don't take this as an attack on your product, it seems really cool and could benefot a lot of people. Please correct anything I may have misunderstood from above.