December 9, 2019 Update:
I paid a $422 invoice for the forum software this morning.
We had $231.45 left in our account from last year.
That means we were only $190.55 short.
I’m accepting donations to help defray the cost. As always:
- Only what you can afford
- No guarantee that the service will continue in perpetuity
- Will have no (conscious) effect on forum post moderation 🙂
In the past year I have made changes that have greatly reduced the cost of the main server, so I am picking that cost up. (The recent outage shows that we get what we pay for!)
December 9, 2018 Update:
I recently paid a $422 invoice for the forum software.
I’m accepting donations to help defray the cost. As always:
- Only what you can afford
- No guarantee that the service will continue in perpetuity
- Will have no (conscious) effect on forum post moderation 🙂
From June 2017:
I knew I had to make some expensive changes last year when the forum software we were using became hopelessly out of date.
I didn’t ask for donations, though, because I wasn’t certain I could make the changes successfully, or that they would be embraced.
Now that we’ve made them, I’d like to see if contributors can help defray the cost.
The two-year expenses are $2,873.68 — just for hosting costs. All the work is a labor of love!
If you’d like to help, please donate through PayPal using the button above. As always, these donations are
- Only what you can afford
- No guarantee that the service will continue in perpetuity
- Will have no (conscious) effect on forum post moderation 🙂