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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 253442" data-attributes="member: 725">I believe your exact words where: &quot;By purchasing a Community Supporter member account, you get all of the above for a period of one year.&quot; There's nothing in there that says The rest of the world won't, but i know how you feel. I personally don't mind donating $25 a year to keep this site going, i really don't need a custom title (but it's still kewl ;-) to do that. I just have to remember and have to be in a reasonable financial situation (the first is much harder than the second for me).Massive donation? I wish i could, but i'm everything but rich. As i don't have a clue about the financial situation of EnWorld i'm only guessing. The greatest expense the last year was the server upgrade, theoretically the server doesn't need an upgrade ever. The community might get a bit larger, but nothing the server could not handle, the software is free and currently works fine, thus that shouldn't really pose a problem either. Then we have general harware failure, this shouldn't be a problem for the next three years (the corporate livespan of most computers), but if it doesn't brake it should go on for a long time. Then we have monthly costs for the internet connection, theoretically the advertisements should take care of that, but i have a feeling it isn't enough, thus then you need extra cash to pay for the connections. My solution would be, lets see whether the community can by it self generate the cash by donating, or otherwise if the bank account gets empty turn off some features and start asking for an entrance 'fee' again (like your doing now).Btw, how much traffic (gigs) does Enworld generate (the site and the board together)?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 253442, member: 725"] [B] I believe your exact words where: "By purchasing a Community Supporter member account, you get all of the above for a period of one year." There's nothing in there that says The rest of the world won't, but i know how you feel. I personally don't mind donating $25 a year to keep this site going, i really don't need a custom title (but it's still kewl ;-) to do that. I just have to remember and have to be in a reasonable financial situation (the first is much harder than the second for me). [/B] Massive donation? I wish i could, but i'm everything but rich. As i don't have a clue about the financial situation of EnWorld i'm only guessing. The greatest expense the last year was the server upgrade, theoretically the server doesn't need an upgrade ever. The community might get a bit larger, but nothing the server could not handle, the software is free and currently works fine, thus that shouldn't really pose a problem either. Then we have general harware failure, this shouldn't be a problem for the next three years (the corporate livespan of most computers), but if it doesn't brake it should go on for a long time. Then we have monthly costs for the internet connection, theoretically the advertisements should take care of that, but i have a feeling it isn't enough, thus then you need extra cash to pay for the connections. My solution would be, lets see whether the community can by it self generate the cash by donating, or otherwise if the bank account gets empty turn off some features and start asking for an entrance 'fee' again (like your doing now). Btw, how much traffic (gigs) does Enworld generate (the site and the board together)? [/QUOTE]

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