Nekochan Net

You bet, things have been going very well this year and I'm appreciative of all the support! I've donated to several forums and have noted that model seems to work the best for everyone.

japes wrote: I hope the community continues to support the site and it's able to stay vibrant and free of ads.

Blipverts!

vishnu wrote:

japes wrote: I hope the community continues to support the site and it's able to stay vibrant and free of ads.

Blipverts!

Was that from the Max Headroom movie?

Max Headroom yes but it was an episode from the series not the movie. Amanda Pays in Max Headroom, holy hot...

I remember the episode, some developer who coded in the bath?

The entire ep is on the tubes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wN9NXL2f8s

Subscribed to topic so i get informed when donations open again.

I donated $5, not much but I hope it at least helps a little..

Hey, when did that go live again?? Well whatever, I'm glad for the chance to donate at last...

I was going to toss a bit more in, but when I go directly to /app.php/donation I get

I had to log out to see and be able to click the "heart"-button on the forum main page.

Yep, I think I mentioned it earlier in the thread - the donate plugin isn't supported under subsilver2, only prosilver. Thanks for your support!

I tossed a few more frogskins into the kitty, let's keep the homefires burning!

nekonoko wrote: Yep, I think I mentioned it earlier in the thread - the donate plugin isn't supported under subsilver2, only prosilver. Thanks for your support!

Perhaps this can be a bonus ...

Finally managed to catch the donation link whilst it was open.

Donated again ! Didn't catch the thing until I saw the thread today. Subsilver2 theme has the "Active Topics" link, which I'm using all the time, while prosilver theme has the donate button. I need both !

$2600 a year? Have you looked into Amazon EC2? Surely they would have some sort of a plan capable of hosting this site, there's not too many members... My dad pays around $100 a year in 3 year increments to host his site, though it may have less traffic than this one.

It's a possibility, but at a glance it looks like it's a lot of work to set up and configure as well.

nekonoko wrote: It's a possibility, but at a glance it looks like it's a lot of work to set up and configure as well.

Again coming from my dad, he describes setting it up as "trivial" and says that running a website the size of Nekochan (encompassing blog, forums, wiki, etc) would probably be around the $100 a year I estimated. The main complexity in Amazon setup comes from the sheer number of add-ons, options, and features you can add. If you want, you could make a free account which gives you quite a limited cloud server but it would be enough to get a feel for the service.

I just don't have the time right now to sink into a project like that. You're under no obligation to donate - it's just an option for people that want to assist.