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Re: Love the forum? Donate a buck or two!

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:38 am
by Schnoff
Thanks for the generous donations! Doing this once a year was a little ambitious. We have core contributors who keep the forum running, and THANK YOU for that.

Back to twice-yearly as needed.

Re: Love the forum? Donate a buck or two!

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2022 6:47 am
by Schnoff
On further thought: Maybe try BIGlittle. Have an ambitious donation drive for LocTober, then top up sometime spring with a smaller one that just makes sure we get to Loctober again.

Re: Love the forum? Donate a buck or two!

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:17 am
by Schnoff
Donations have been moved to our hosting account. We have 13 months of "runway" from here.

Re: Love the forum? Donate a buck or two!

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:29 am
by Schnoff
Is it Locktober? It's Locktober!

Rattling the tin to keep us funded for the next 18 months. That is roughly how it flows btw: Every 12 months, see what's left, top up so we get to 18. We have a comfortable 4 months before existing funds have been used up.

As always, all funds go to hosting. Admins do all their work pro bono.

Re: Love the forum? Donate a buck or two!

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:44 am
by Tom Allen
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"Heh heh... He said 'pro boner' heh heh."

Re: Love the forum? Donate a buck or two!

Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:32 am
by Tom Allen
Hey everybody - Locktober is almost over, and we are still a little shy of our funding goal. We don't take any advertising, and the admins still run this as an all-volunteer operation.

Not nagging, mind you. Just bringing it to your attention.

And thank you again to all who have supported this.

Re: Love the forum? Donate a buck or two!

Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:45 am
by ARK
How short are you of your goal?

Re: Love the forum? Donate a buck or two!

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:30 pm
by Schnoff
Thanks for everyone who helped! So, we now have 160 bucks, which keeps us running for not-quite 9 months. That means this idea of a large Locktober drive didn't work. No worries at all!

We can do another drive in spring, and instead of looking 18 months ahead, we look 9 months ahead - then do it again Locktober, also for 9 months ahead.

The current goal when you click on "Donations" is still at 18 months ahead.

At some point we may want to have a discussion about how valuable a bespoke forum still is in 2024. Reddit exists ... so does Discord.