LFGSS survives by donations

I sold a bunch of stuff recently and failed to pass on the cut, so have just signed up for monthly dono too.

Stopped lurking and chipped in again, given DDoS attack. Thanks etc.

Bump for a donation.

Was sad DDOS took down site, am happy site is now back. Set up monthly donation. thx x.

@Velocio when you are back from holiday, I suggest an update of opening post with current running costs. Currently mentions £690 as at Oct 2016 I think. Even if it's the same amount it'll be good for people to see the current monthly run rate.

Have chucked a little into the pot alongside the recurring to help bring the kitty up.

The costs went down 😁 even with Brexit increasing costs due to exchange rate, the costs were still reduced by my optimising things.

Not as cheap as they could be, but that would require me to finish the Go rewrite

I'd offer to help but that's way outside my knowledge/skillet/comfort.

I could make the tea while you do it?....

I love this forum and all the kind and generous people that make it great. Long live LFGSS and thank you x

Last donation was a long time ago and I forgot about it so set up the monthly payment now. Thanks @Velocio

@pdlouche thank you again

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More thanks to @pdlouche - £25 donated as requested in thanks for the custom sewing, materials and postage. Thanks again also, obviously, to @Velocio

Thanks Coot!

Donation made as thank you to @rhb for generously and diligently fixing a busted backpack for me. 😀

Cheers @balmain! Donated

@Velocio have you come across opencollective ? would this be helpful to manage donations / add transparency ? I've only contributed, don't know it from the other side, might just mean more work than your current set-up ...

@ElGonzo This thread already exists. I need to set up a regular donation.

First post needs an update. There's no affiliate links now...

TBH @Velocio can do what they want with the money, I give some money, I use site.

I agree with @BCarley

When I sell/make/do things and tell people to send money to @Velocio in return, that’s my gratuity.

This isn’t a charity, I feel no need to know whether the money goes on IaaS, SaaS, or sandwiches.

I would prefer it went to sandwiches than servers. Although, if there is a way for my donations to be more efficient, that'd be good.

@Velocio - did you say that it's better to bundle them up to once a quarter rather than monthly?

did you say that it's better to bundle them up to once a quarter rather than monthly?

PayPal makes it better to have a higher donation less frequently... as they kick in a fixed fee + a %. the fixed fee is 30p, and then it's a % of transaction... hence when people do a 50p donation the % is deducted from 20p... it's pointless... when people do a £1 donation it's almost pointless but still appreciated... but it's best when it's £10 as then the total fees are a low % of the overall.

if you were donating £3 per month, it's better to just do £9 every 3 months, etc... as then the fees consume far less of it.

I think the % is 3%... I'd need to check that.

and once in a while someone will forget they have a donation and dispute it, and then the dispute fee typically wipes out someone else's donation too.

the huge benefit of lots of small transactions is resilience... in the early days we only had a few people donating a high amount, and 1 person stopping the donations would suddenly create a peril that month.

so lots of small is preferred... but not too small as too much goes to fees.

then occasionally people come along and do a one-off £50, £100, £200... and that offsets minor losses for a few months, and sometimes I'm lucky and I'm not out of pocket at all for a long stretch.

didn’t mean it in a policing way, was just wondering if that platform could make fundraising easier. I was also thinking about it in relation to governance, e.g. what if @Velocio doesn’t want to do all this on his own anymore. I wasn’t expecting that to become urgent so soon …

I actually agree... Open Collective should be the way forward if the site survives beyond 16th March.