I just asked the top few hundred forum users (those with at least 400 posts and who've got an account at least a year old), to consider subscribing or donating, via private message.
The gist of it is: I'm going to turn off ads as a revenue stream here entirely and I plan to cover the operating costs myself entirely if needs be (part of my blood pact with Wavey back in 2006), and that subscribing or donating is a way to help.
This thread is for feedback and discussion about the message itself, plus the plans to turn off ad revenue entirely at some point soon. None of it really matters since the costs are relatively low, so even if zero new people donate or subscribe then nothing changes, but if there starts to be an excess of income we can make more regular improvements to the place and especially the forums (compensate the mods a bit, enable new forum features that cost money for dev work or plugins, etc).
The gist of it is: I'm going to turn off ads as a revenue stream here entirely and I plan to cover the operating costs myself entirely if needs be (part of my blood pact with Wavey back in 2006), and that subscribing or donating is a way to help.
This thread is for feedback and discussion about the message itself, plus the plans to turn off ad revenue entirely at some point soon. None of it really matters since the costs are relatively low, so even if zero new people donate or subscribe then nothing changes, but if there starts to be an excess of income we can make more regular improvements to the place and especially the forums (compensate the mods a bit, enable new forum features that cost money for dev work or plugins, etc).
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