LFGSS survives by donations

In!

Some beer in London is £2 but you pay for that privilege in other ways. Going to up my donation when I have a moment.

From cost cutter?

All the sudden you've never been to scary pub in South London? Anyway some wetherspoons do £2 ales and specials occasionally.

wetherspoons

Brexit splitters. #neva4get

now is the time for healing and not overpaying for shit lager

I haven't been on here much this year, but it's a great forum, and I'm happy to contribute. Plus it's nice knowing it's here, and if I ever want cheering up the memes thread is great for memes and people arguing about memes.

I do live on the Following. It is the first page I load when I come here (which actually means more Classifieds than anything else.)
Then Current Projects. Rarely go outside it, shame.

Btw my monthly beer 🍺 has been going for a while now. I wouldn't have 7 bikes wasn't it for this forum.

Mr Kitchen, I shall donate soon as I get paids! Promise dude 👊🏽🤗

My CC expired and paypal cancelled payment. Have reinstated.

I have bought the forum 1 x single origin speciality coffee a month

Just so I can look at shit pisti posts in trainers thread

Worth every bean... 👹

Done, a one off. Cheers.

Set up a beer a monthly. Cheers for what you do and provide for the community, much appreciated.

Donated. I've not been on here as much as I used to. But it's a valuable community and resource. Will set up a recurring thing when I have regular work. Keep up the awesome work @velocio

Has this been resolved yet?

Bring gold stars back.

Free t-shirts for EVERYONE.

Leaving up for most of the month to ensure that it reaches enough people that it achieves enough small regular donations that we're all good for the months to come.

We're already good this month, because a number of £10 > £50 donations were made.

But that won't help us in a few months time, getting lots of £3 donations that recur every month is what helps us long-term.

If I follow the link to make a recurring donation I get a failure at checkout (normal paypal transactions work fine) If I try to go into paypal by logging on as normal I can't find an option to set up a regular payment.
Can anyone help sort this out?

Hmm.

That is very weird.

We have a Stripe account somewhere (it's used by the shop when we sell jerseys), I could perhaps figure out how to get that working as I know they do subscriptions too.

The only catch is, I'd need to move the money to PayPal each month as we actually pay our bills from the PayPal account.

I'll have a chat with Paypal later and see what they say.

I had the same thing.

Try logging-in to Paypal and then coming back here to follow the link.

Set up my recurring donation.

I can't quote myself, but in here: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13082156/

I mentioned how affiliates earns less as companies change terms or offer less revenue... well, this morning Wiggle said that "we are trying to move away from these type of publishers".

Those type of publishers are:

• forums
  
• with user generated content
  
• where links are automatically converted to affiliates
  
  

Wiggle and CRC make up most of the non-eBay affiliate revenue, and whilst eBay has been declining for years, Wiggle and CRC have been fairly resilient (unlike Amazon who just crash and burn frequently).

Basically, what is left of the affiliate revenue doesn't have a long shelf-life.

The amount of recurring monthly donations does look like it may soon be enough to fully cover us (not just cover the shortfall that was experienced by the collapse of GBP against USD).

For those thinking we have it covered... we do this month, and next month too... but it will get harder in the future.

If you haven't set up a £3 monthly donation, do so.

You won't notice it, it's tiny. You won't begrudge it, it's tiny. It's a beer for the server, once a month, a nothing in the grand scheme of things.

If enough people do this we can totally forget about the finances and it can run itself.

The bills are paid from PayPal via a PayPal debit card - so as long as there is money in the PayPal it's a nice self-contained system. This month's bills have been paid, and we're ~£150 up... but this month has seen a disproportionate number of one-off donations, so we're probably still just below having enough small monthly ones.

Don't send us a one-off wedge of money (unless it's huge!)... just sign up for £3 per month.

In the long-run, that's the most effortless way for the forum to just exist without us caring about anything external to us (advertisers, affiliates, partnerships, whatever).

Links to donate are in the first post. Apparently it helps if you're signed-into PayPal before you click the links.