LFGSS survives by donations

Yes, PayPal then gives you the option to make it recurring.

Yes, same link. Just choose a one off rather than recurring.

Excellent-Part of donation made courtesy of @Rastapopoulos extremely generous Pearson Touche offer. Rest to follow up come pay day.

@TW hooked me up with a baby seat for the car. Cheers!

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Sold some tyres and everyone kindly paid via gift so 4% fees and a little extra have been sent as a one off extra donation.

@Sluggo very generously helped me out with a shifter. £20 Donation to forum and to WWF (the animal one…not the wrestling one!). Cheers

Thank you, everyone.

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Just donated after selling some bits, plus I've learnt shit tonnes from this forum over the years so wanted to contribute!

Small donation on behalf of @moocher for some 3D printing kindness today :)

@Velocio for regular donations, is it better for you to get a smaller monthly amount or a larger annual/biannual one (totalling the same)?

Small and regular is best, it makes the coffers more predictable (one-off donations are hugely appreciated, but tend to make it hard to know whether we actually have enough for n months).

General guideline:

• No donation under £2 (it's pointless as PayPal fees will wipe it out almost entirely)
  
• Scheduled is better than one-off, doesn't have to be monthly - every 3 months is still good
  
• A larger number of small donors is better than a few people donating a lot (if someone stops donating it doesn't crater the finances)
  
  

So I roughly advise "a beer a month" on the lower end, "a bottle of wine every month or two" on the moderate end, and "let the server get wasted" on an ad-hoc or annual basis.

The server consumes alcohol apparently.

Just seen this^ explainer - will bear in mind for future.
For anyone that's supported my work and generously donated to causes, I did a year end/new year summary in Unconditional Love and gave a lump donation to say personal thanks for being such a great community;
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16342490/
Thanks all, you're ace.

Scilly.Suffolk by way of some books sent to me has added a tenner to the coffers

Finally got round to setting up a monthly after far too long. Hope to increase when less skint. Big thanks to the man himself and all of you lot.

I ve got a very old chelsea building society account,
40 pounds left on it.
I would like to close it ,
and pass on the money here,
if I can only get a cheque out of it ,
whom should it made payable to?
I don t live in the uk anymore.

That's an odd one, but appreciated.

It would have to be made out to myself and I'll deposit it in my bank and then I'd transfer money into the PayPal account so it gets spent on the bills.

DM me for my name and address to send it to

Greetings my very good friend and I have some very good news that we have millions of currency in a late diplomats’ account, etc. etc.

Thanks to @Scilly.Suffolk for the workwear!

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No pfishing on this lovely forum,
had to lecture bank staff on French ID card validity,
but managed to pass on my hard earned cash.

£30 donated for @neilp ‘s generosity. Cheers LFGSS

Thanks @coot

Monthly donation setup, I have been meaning to do it for ages but never got around to it. Thanks to @Velocio and everyone else who makes this such a great forum.

Thanks eskay.

Also thanks to everyone that does donate... it's such a big deal and very appreciated.

A long time ago I set the notification emails to "Mark as read" and auto-file themselves... and I was a bit nervous, what if I just don't notice the coffers run low and the (at the time increasing) rate of unsubscribes... I'd suddenly get a big credit card bill I can't pay :D

But that hasn't happened... people do still sign-up, and occasional large donations are still made. And to my infinite relief... it's all ticking over quite nicely with no drama, and honestly that's the best thing in the world.

The moderation works - there is none, you moderate yourselves.
The funding works - there is none, you all donate a little and a little each is all it needs.

It's pretty freaking exceptional as large websites go.

large websites

How big is it in terms of large websites?

:shrug

Unsure, I no longer have any analytics or logging in place - for privacy reasons and the nice side effect of reducing costs and increasing performance.

But LFGSS by itself serves 1.2M web pages per day - not requests, but full web pages. So it's pretty large.