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Misc / Open / Re: DONATIONS
« on: March 07, 2024, 11:38:17 AM »
Many thanks to all who have made donations.
For anyone new, the forum costs about £400 per year to host which I am happy to do and have done since 2007.
The forum software (SMF) is old but stable and does the job. Unfortunately, additional functionality is only available if people write custom plug-ins (SMF call them "Mods") and one such was the Treasury Mod that people have mentioned. It allowed members to make a donation and add their details to the list (if they wanted to) so that everyone could see the donation history.
As time moves on, some of these developers lose the enthusiasm to keep updating their software with the evolving PHP server software and threat levels. Once they get too out of date they are labelled "abandoned" and are too dangerous to use.
The only way of doing donations at the moment is via the PayPal link which is pretty impersonal but works.
To all those that have donated this week (you know who you are) - many thanks.
Steve
For anyone new, the forum costs about £400 per year to host which I am happy to do and have done since 2007.
The forum software (SMF) is old but stable and does the job. Unfortunately, additional functionality is only available if people write custom plug-ins (SMF call them "Mods") and one such was the Treasury Mod that people have mentioned. It allowed members to make a donation and add their details to the list (if they wanted to) so that everyone could see the donation history.
As time moves on, some of these developers lose the enthusiasm to keep updating their software with the evolving PHP server software and threat levels. Once they get too out of date they are labelled "abandoned" and are too dangerous to use.
The only way of doing donations at the moment is via the PayPal link which is pretty impersonal but works.
To all those that have donated this week (you know who you are) - many thanks.
Steve
