[Jacob Haug]

I have a question about paid memberships. I know you guys don't have one right now, but are you planning on adding one on later?

[Catalyst]

Nope, free now and forever.

[Jacob Haug]

What about a donation part? Something...how can you guys afford to host this website at no cost to yourself?

[Catalyst]

Well, right now the admins chip in together to pay for the IPB license, domain, and hosting...so donations wouldn't be turned away

How do you make a donation? I'll have to double check with the other admins before answering.

[william]

Catalyst, on Dec 3 2006, 09:32 AM, said:

How do you make a donation? I'll have to double check with the other admins before answering.

Paypal Donations

[Ben Abrams]

im sure at some point we will accept donations. i was working on a mod for the IPB commuity where donations go through our paypal API, basicly, all the transactions of every donation we would have a record of. so then i would build a page where members can see how much has been donated, then we can tell people where the money has gone etc.

we wont ever start subscription services, ever, ever ever.

you will notice no google ads about the place, we havnt set this site up to earn money. its goal was never to do that =)

donations will be set up soon theres no real need for them yet. but thats as far as any revenue will be collected from here.

[Jacob Haug]

Wow, that's good to know, allot of forums are in it for the money...but not Web Radiance!!

[Catalyst]

You mean we could make money?!... Hold on then...let's not be too hasty about this...

kidding, we all left another forum because we hated the very money-centric attitude.

[Karl Buckland]

Catalyst, on Dec 4 2006, 08:28 AM, said:

kidding, we all left another forum because we hated the very money-centric attitude.

Indeed. Of course it's alright for some, but we want to keep Webradiance ad-free unless we absolutely had to (but we'd need to be so huge it's not worth thinking about).

We'll probably seek a sponsor long before thinking of adding adverts, subscriptions, etc.

But quite simply, Webradiance currently uses 1% of the bandwidth for the hosting service it's on. It'll have to grow a hell of a lot before that can start to become a problem.

[marcamos]

Hooray for our level of ethics and our desire to make this place the best for our members!

Hooray!

[Jacob Haug]

Yeah Web Radiance...high moral standards...hope that will never change!!

[Ben Abrams]

Catalyst, on Dec 4 2006, 08:28 AM, said:

You mean we could make money?!... Hold on then...let's not be too hasty about this...

hahahahahahahahaaa!!!!