I was reading in another thread about the financial challenges involved in running the site. I realize that there is some revenue from subscriptions and ads, but I was thinking that some members might occasionally make voluntary donations if there was a convenient way to do it, e.g. after making a sale through the forum listings.
This makes a lot of sense to me. I think selling on OF should require a paid subscription. On top of that, frequent private sellers should consider donating.
Tying payments to sales was something we really wanted to avoid because when there are disagreements or disputes that arise, we really want everyone to be on a level footing without there being a conflict of interest because someone pays us and the other doesn’t.
I think this is a great idea. One of my jeep forums has a donation button and it gets used regularly. And OF is ran much better with more traffic!
There are lots of members here who could use an upgrade for those who wish to support.
So this link should now work, @Trev is working on making it a bit cleaner looking and adding a board to recognise people for it.
Donate to Omega Forums
Without seeming like a stingy dastard, are there any suggested levels? "If everyone did their part, OF could run forever on $$$ per year." Or "Buy a set of depends and a coffee so Trev can stay glued to his chair another 24 hours working on OF."
I hope this isn't dampening the feeling of goodwill and generosity from Dan's suggestion.
Currently we’re running about a 3k per month deficit, next month will be higher, closer to 4k because of Bytedance’s behaviour over the last month but it should be back to around 3k after that, we’re down about 30k-35k for the year as we had duplicated servers for part of the year while getting the new version of the site live which is why I’m still going to move on that A386 too
Maybe you can publish this figures and make it more transparent what your costs are, and what comes in. Makes it easier for most of us to understand and probably to spend more money. One could think "hey my wordpress is for free 😁 .
3k loss per month is huge and the risk losing this page at all is there I guess. Something nobody wants here.
Nico
I suppose we didn't want to go full Wikipedia 😁
