*** Forum fundraiser 2010 [£623.14 / £600 raised] ***

[orudge]

Well, at that date, I believe there were a lot of spambots perusing the forums. What you should remember though, is that back in 2006, the attachment limit was perhaps 1MB. It's now grown to over 4MB, and there are many more people uploading many more attachments. This all uses bandwidth. I'm quite happy to provide that (and I much prefer it to people linking to, say, imageshack or photobucket or whatnot), but it all costs money.

[noofnoof]

I understand thank you, yes my internet speed has gone up dramatically since I joined these forums, and I'm downloading things I wouldnt otherwise. I will try and make a donation.

[Private_pAuLa]

I decided to donate 5 Euro towards tt-forums.net and another 5 Euro towards the OpenTTD project. Thanks to all other donaters!

Me, too.
so there are additional 10 bugs on your paypal account

[cmoiromain]

I will be giving 10€ sometime between now and next week end (as soon as I find the strength to stand up and fetch ly credit card ^^)

Thanks for providing with such a useful forum!

EDIT: Done!

[audigex]

Well, at that date, I believe there were a lot of spambots perusing the forums. What you should remember though, is that back in 2006, the attachment limit was perhaps 1MB. It's now grown to over 4MB, and there are many more people uploading many more attachments. This all uses bandwidth. I'm quite happy to provide that (and I much prefer it to people linking to, say, imageshack or photobucket or whatnot), but it all costs money.

There's also the point that just because the max users online at any one moment was in 2006, it doesn't mean that there were more people online overall, or that they downloaded more pages/images.

Unfortunately my paypal is somewhat sparse at the moment, I'll take another look when my student loan comes in

[orudge]

We're a quarter of the way there, in just 11 days! Thanks for all your support so far.

[DJC]

Donated £10 before I spend all my money on beer. Seeing as the forums are hosting my Locomotion scenarios and mods and related discussions I think its about time I donated something.

[Daan Timmer]

IDK How much my €€€ convert to £££, but it was the least I could do in all these years (I now almost have a full-time job so, that amound is normally spend on half an evening of beer )

[Red*Star]

I just PayPal'ed EUR 10. Hopefully it is arriving at the right place - I think this is the first online-donation I made until now . Thank you Owen Rudge for this great forum!

[mantaray]

I've played this game for a long time and It keeps getting better all the time, thanks to all of you. Just donated £50 and joined the translator team. Keep up the good work everyone!

[orudge]

Thanks to all donations so far, I'll update the total hopefully later tonight.

[erregerre]

Another 10€ ref 3WH63683M5738152B.

In my country we said: " a grain doesn't fill a barn but helps to his partners"
Grano no hace granero pero ayuda al compañero.

I hope you understand my span-english

[Tattoo]

I just sent $20.00 USD for this year. Thanks for all the hard work by everyone that contributes...

[The Irish]

my contribution should be there as well.

[andythenorth]

Owen - have you looked at Paypal Subscriptions? They're an easy to way set up a regular donation. If I remember rightly. you'll need a site or shop front or somewhere to host a 'Subscribe with Paypal' button (perhaps you can just post it at the start of this thread). Like most of Paypal, they're conceptually simple, but a bit fiddly to set up

I'd be happy to have a subscription, I'm sure others would. I think it's still good to ask for annual donations - it probably gets the issue more attention that way. Subscriptions might however provide a good base to start from

[orudge]

Yep, PayPal subscriptions are something we support. We don't currently have many users providing regular donations in that manner, but they are of course welcome. If you'd like to set one up, just send me a PM letting me know how much you wish to donate, and how frequently, and I can get you a subscription link.

Thanks!

[Kreny]

5 EUR sent (I am poor employee with mortgage ), this was my second-ever donation ! First came to OpenTTD project
Thanks for great forum and Your effort !

[Dave]

I don't wanna kick it off here but does OTTD's development team contribute anything from their donations for your hosting of pretty much their entire fanbase's work on the forum? I'm sure I'm about to get flamed by every OTTD dev under the sun but surely it'd be fair for them to chuck you a small slice at least?

[JamieLei]

But they have massive amounts of traffic which they barely can pay for. In January, they used 3TB of bandwidth, owing to the dramatic increase in downloads with OpenTTD 1.0. If they're asking for mirrors, they can hardly be making a profit. Plus half these donations seem to be from the OpenTTD community anyway, contributing to the future of OpenTTD.

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=46889

[Kreny]

I don't wanna kick it off here but does OTTD's development team contribute anything from their donations for your hosting of pretty much their entire fanbase's work on the forum? I'm sure I'm about to get flamed by every OTTD dev under the sun but surely it'd be fair for them to chuck you a small slice at least?

I am OpenTTD fan and I have contributed with at least 5 Euros to this forum because I know how important is this forum for whole TT community. Or You think that everyone whome contributed did it because he/she just enjoys reading forums ? No, we are just players of any TT game which is in this forum and because of that, we are contributing.