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Yes, the new ones are all monthly.
And the 100 or so donors is simply because there is attrition over time... cards expire, paypal accounts empty, backup funding sources go out of date.
There was a time when the forum cost well over £1k each month to run, served fewer people, and far more people donated. But that was 4+ years ago and I've done no concerted donation drive since then.
Instead I focused on new tech, cutting costs, more efficiencies. Those have been greatly beneficial, we run at half the cost, and do far more, than 4 years ago.
And over 4 years, every day or two I'd get an email saying "{someone}'s subscription has expired" or "been cancelled". So the number of donors did used to be higher, and it was more visible too (those gold stars). But it's less visible, and time has reduced the numbers.
So this is the donation drive... to get us back to a comfort zone.
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Velocio
@hoefla
(from the old thread)
Really shocked by this. C'mon people, donate!
Btw @Velocio the old regular payments had frequency in the name (every month, ever 3 months etc). The more recent ones don't, are they all monthly?