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Hi all. You’ve probably noticed on the front page that we now have a donation system set up, because we’re looking for you guys to help us continue to sustain this site with its ever-increasing costs.
As it says there on the front page, we always have increasing bandwidth costs, hosting service costs, domain registration, software licensing fees, and maintenance costs. After all, we have over 24,000 threads, over half a million posts, and over 2,500 users - and then there’s uploaded avatars, signatures, personal images, emoticons, etc. We’re no small operation anymore!
Right now our goal is $400 USD, which should last us about five or six months. If we get more than that, that’s fine! If we get less than that, that’s OK too. We can work with it, but we’re hoping to get to that goal. You can help!
The donation system is simple enough. When you see it on the front page, click the yellow donation button. The donation details section will allow you to set the donation amount; the standard amounts are $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100, but you can set a custom amount too. We appreciate anything that you can give us that will bring us towards our goal!
You may be wondering what’s in it for you. Well first and foremost, the continued operation of this site. Right now one person (Hassan) is paying for the site, but only for a little while longer, at which point there’ll be a change up in who pays - beyond just this donation system.
Remember that without all of this money being spent, there would be no SWRP, at least not on vBulletin or anything else that requires payment.
But since it’s good to give everyone and incentive and thanks for donating, there will be a few things we can guarantee. You’ll get a bigger PM inbox so you can have more PMs. We’re also going to give you some sort of donator badge; we don’t know when or how, to be honest, but we’re working on that and it will be done. Unlike the last time we did donations, we can’t give everyone colors. However, if you donate $50 or more, you will receive light blue colors sported by users like Mulluns.
So that’s that. You’ll probably still have some questions, but Hassan knows more about this than me - and he’s the one whose account it goes to - so I’ll let him answer most of the questions.
Please consider donating! I’ve already started us off with 130 dollars, so we’re already 33% of the way there. We appreciate any help you can give!
As it says there on the front page, we always have increasing bandwidth costs, hosting service costs, domain registration, software licensing fees, and maintenance costs. After all, we have over 24,000 threads, over half a million posts, and over 2,500 users - and then there’s uploaded avatars, signatures, personal images, emoticons, etc. We’re no small operation anymore!
Right now our goal is $400 USD, which should last us about five or six months. If we get more than that, that’s fine! If we get less than that, that’s OK too. We can work with it, but we’re hoping to get to that goal. You can help!
The donation system is simple enough. When you see it on the front page, click the yellow donation button. The donation details section will allow you to set the donation amount; the standard amounts are $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100, but you can set a custom amount too. We appreciate anything that you can give us that will bring us towards our goal!
You may be wondering what’s in it for you. Well first and foremost, the continued operation of this site. Right now one person (Hassan) is paying for the site, but only for a little while longer, at which point there’ll be a change up in who pays - beyond just this donation system.
Remember that without all of this money being spent, there would be no SWRP, at least not on vBulletin or anything else that requires payment.
But since it’s good to give everyone and incentive and thanks for donating, there will be a few things we can guarantee. You’ll get a bigger PM inbox so you can have more PMs. We’re also going to give you some sort of donator badge; we don’t know when or how, to be honest, but we’re working on that and it will be done. Unlike the last time we did donations, we can’t give everyone colors. However, if you donate $50 or more, you will receive light blue colors sported by users like Mulluns.
So that’s that. You’ll probably still have some questions, but Hassan knows more about this than me - and he’s the one whose account it goes to - so I’ll let him answer most of the questions.
Please consider donating! I’ve already started us off with 130 dollars, so we’re already 33% of the way there. We appreciate any help you can give!
