I was gonna suggest to putting up a donation page - but that's already taken care of. Good job @Mason
Maybe a link or some display sort of on the index page of the forum would help even more. I mean I find it kind of unfair that the money is going out of your pocket for the community (selfless work), wherein the community can manage to contribute to cover the costs (obviously not to make sizeable profits) so that you won't have to manage the burden of the costs.
I was gonna suggest to putting up a donation page - but that's already taken care of. Good job @Mason
Maybe a link or some display sort of on the index page of the forum would help even more. I mean I find it kind of unfair that the money is going out of your pocket for the community (selfless work), wherein the community can manage to contribute to cover the costs (obviously not to make sizeable profits) so that you won't have to manage the burden of the costs.
There is a donor link in the sidebar. Perhaps we need a flashing GIF?
I think $3 is the lowest monthly amount that donor-box allows, if just 10 people would do that it would cover the monthly expenses.
I just set up a monthly donation, and if you can afford to let a bunch of VPS's idle you can afford a monthly donation too!
@rcy026 said: @Mason maybe you should look into updating the info at donor-box, I just got a thank you mail for my monthly donation to "Warband Collective"?
@rcy026 said: @Mason maybe you should look into updating the info at donor-box, I just got a thank you mail for my monthly donation to "Warband Collective"?
Finally found where that damn receipt setting was. "Warband Collective" was the name of my old gaming group I used donorbox for and for some reason some of the old settings carried over when I set up the LES campaign. Should be all fixed now... apologies to anyone that was confused after donating and a big thank you as always
@jmaxwell said:
Just a suggestion- it would be nice if lowendspirit.com took us to this forum instead of talk.lowendspirit.com
That's actually in the works. One of the tasks on my plate is migrating the content from our WP blog into the forum and just merge the two, then have all traffic at lowendspirit.com (no subdomain). Hopefully will be complete in the next week or two
A true breath of fresh air. Slowly, but for sure, this forum will overcome LET and WHT. 7 years I was with LET and they effectively pulled the plug with commercialization.
On this forum, I would like to see more exposed and visible donations link. Just in case...
@legendary said: On this forum, I would like to see more exposed and visible donations link. Just in case...
Pleasure to have you here and agreed 100%. Transparency is king.
The current donation setup was thrown together hastily, so once I have more time to iron it out some more, I will. Initial ideas is to have a donation page that shows currently monthly goal and total donations received. Would also like to "open the books" and show where the expenses are going, how much is left in the pot, etc. If donorbox doesn't fulfill everything on my checklist, I'll look into alternative donation platforms as well (including @Ympker's Open Collective suggestion). More details will be released when ready
Added a donation total tracker and monthly goal (set to $35 to cover monthly operating costs -- anything extra gets thrown into a "site improvements/development budget & future operating expenses" bucket) to the donation page.
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Accounts from the old forum was not moved over to vanilla.
That might explain why it didn’t work.
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Happy for this
Thanks @Mason & @mikho
I was gonna suggest to putting up a donation page - but that's already taken care of. Good job @Mason
Maybe a link or some display sort of on the index page of the forum would help even more. I mean I find it kind of unfair that the money is going out of your pocket for the community (selfless work), wherein the community can manage to contribute to cover the costs (obviously not to make sizeable profits) so that you won't have to manage the burden of the costs.
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There is a donor link in the sidebar. Perhaps we need a flashing GIF?
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Yikes! I did glance once before writing the above reply, did not notice it. Indeed make it flashy or at least bold or different colour
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I think $3 is the lowest monthly amount that donor-box allows, if just 10 people would do that it would cover the monthly expenses.
I just set up a monthly donation, and if you can afford to let a bunch of VPS's idle you can afford a monthly donation too!
@Mason maybe you should look into updating the info at donor-box, I just got a thank you mail for my monthly donation to "Warband Collective"?
reported and @Mason is trying to solve it.
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Finally found where that damn receipt setting was. "Warband Collective" was the name of my old gaming group I used donorbox for and for some reason some of the old settings carried over when I set up the LES campaign. Should be all fixed now... apologies to anyone that was confused after donating and a big thank you as always
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Proud papa of YABS
The difference.
Unfair comparison, the LES servers are in your basement.
I'm glad LES> @Ryujin said:
What website is this?
Just a suggestion- it would be nice if lowendspirit.com took us to this forum instead of talk.lowendspirit.com
Why?
Its Bitdefender browser addon
That's actually in the works. One of the tasks on my plate is migrating the content from our WP blog into the forum and just merge the two, then have all traffic at lowendspirit.com (no subdomain). Hopefully will be complete in the next week or two
Humble janitor of LES
Proud papa of YABS
A true breath of fresh air. Slowly, but for sure, this forum will overcome LET and WHT. 7 years I was with LET and they effectively pulled the plug with commercialization.
On this forum, I would like to see more exposed and visible donations link. Just in case...
Pleasure to have you here and agreed 100%. Transparency is king.
The current donation setup was thrown together hastily, so once I have more time to iron it out some more, I will. Initial ideas is to have a donation page that shows currently monthly goal and total donations received. Would also like to "open the books" and show where the expenses are going, how much is left in the pot, etc. If donorbox doesn't fulfill everything on my checklist, I'll look into alternative donation platforms as well (including @Ympker's Open Collective suggestion). More details will be released when ready
Humble janitor of LES
Proud papa of YABS
@Mason
I've added an image with a link to the donorbox.
Larger than the surrounding text, but still not intrusive.
Hope you like it?
https://clients.mrvm.net
Complaints:
Back to the drawing board!
Humble janitor of LES
Proud papa of YABS
https://clients.mrvm.net
Added a donation total tracker and monthly goal (set to $35 to cover monthly operating costs -- anything extra gets thrown into a "site improvements/development budget & future operating expenses" bucket) to the donation page.
Humble janitor of LES
Proud papa of YABS
This is the limit of my ability to "fix" it and it's still not all that annoying, the base image is clearly too unobtrusive.
setInterval( function(){ $('aside.Panel-main center img').attr('style', 'filter: hue-rotate('+(new Date().getMilliseconds())%360+'deg)'); }, 50 );E: And I can't even see the image on mobile, even after enabling Desktop Site mode. Seriously too unobtrusive.
The depression I can imagine once you spend $100 and receive two $3.14 orders:
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3392620/#Comment_3392620
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Hmm so complete side question. Donations help. What else can we do to help?
Uhm.. stop visiting LET? Just saying.
Start interesting threads over here. If a provider posts an offer elsewhere, email/DM them and say they should create an account and post it here.
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@Mason @mikho Suggestion - maybe you guys can temporarily suspend these limits to get provider tags for hosts that are verified at OGF?
"strike while the iron's hot" and just auto approve people without the post limit + wait time. Maybe just until the end of the month?
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Way ahead of you, there is an announcement to PM me with the info needed and a Provider tag is given (@Virmach as an example).
I realised that I don’t mention its free to post offers (within the offer limits), but thats what the tag give you, the ability to post.
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