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Future of the forum
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 10:03 am
by Charlie Reams
I just renewed the site so we're good til at least 2023. It costs about £86 a year to keep it online so if you'd like to make a small contribution to the cost, I'd be very grateful -- but the site will be here either way!
(PayPal link)
Re: Future of the forum
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 10:43 am
by Jon O'Neill
Charlie Reams wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 10:03 am
I just renewed the site so we're good til at least 2023. It costs about £86 a year to keep it online so if you'd like to make a small contribution to the cost, I'd be very grateful -- but the site will be here either way!
(PayPal link)
Hooray!
However, the link doesn't work and I can't work out what it should be.
Re: Future of the forum
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 11:54 am
by Fiona T
I thought last year's donations covered it for a few years?
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14222&p=189434&hilit=donate#p189613
Re: Future of the forum
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 11:55 am
by Gavin Chipper
It says "Your donation has already been completed."
Re: Future of the forum
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 11:56 am
by Gavin Chipper
I was going to look this up because it didn't seem that long ago but you saved me the effort!
Re: Future of the forum
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 1:10 pm
by JackHurst
Jon O'Neill wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 10:43 am
Charlie Reams wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 10:03 am
I just renewed the site so we're good til at least 2023. It costs about £86 a year to keep it online so if you'd like to make a small contribution to the cost, I'd be very grateful -- but the site will be here either way!
(PayPal link)
Hooray!
However, the link doesn't work and I can't work out what it should be.
I think Charlie may have mistakenly set up a single donation link?
Re: Future of the forum
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 1:15 pm
by JackHurst
Actually, it looks like the way it works is that when you add a PayPal Donate button to your website (as is done
here), every different browser that clicks it gets a unique PayPal url (probably for their tracking purposes). Charlie probably clicked the link from
this apterous page and shared the resulting url. Once one of these unique URLs has had a successful donation it stops working.
TL;DR
Use the
apterous page to donate instead
Re: Future of the forum
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:59 pm
by Charlie Reams
Your memory is evidently better than mine! But yes, you're right -- at the current price we have enough in the kitty to cover the payment I just made and probably next year's as well. (Sadly the provider seems to have increased their prices and removed the ability to pay for more than 1 year in advance, but it's not that steep so probably fine for now.)
Sorry about the bad PayPal link, but probably for the best that it didn't work.