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

Post by **orudge** » 01 Jan 2010 01:55

Happy new year everyone! And with a new year comes a new tt-forums donation drive!

The forums are continuing to grow, with over 130 million hits in 2009, and 2TB of bandwidth used. Such activity is very exciting, but unfortunately, it also costs a lot of money! Advertising makes up a certain amount of the costs, but unfortunately not as much as it once did. Therefore, this year's fundraiser has been set for £600 ($970, €680). If you could spare even just a few pounds, dollars, euros, or whatever currency you use, to help the forums, it'd be appreciated.

Instead of a single large donation, you may wish to consider sending a regular monthly donation, if this is something you can afford. Hosting for the forums is paid monthly, so this can help to spread things around a bit. If you'd be interested in donating like this, please let me know.

You can find the donation page here. Donations can be taken by PayPal and direct bank transfer. Within the UK, I can also accept cheques and postal orders. Within the US, I can accept checks and money orders. If there is another way you would like to donate, let me know and we can figure something out. Your donations are very much appreciated.

If you don't want to, or can't, send a monetary donation, you can use our Amazon affiliate links when you shop at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com or Amazon.ca. Again, the donations page here explains that.

Thank you all for your support. Please let me know if you have any questions. (This announcement will be removed in the future.)

CURRENT TOTAL DONATED: £623.14 / £600

Click here to donate!

tb2571989 · Post by **tb2571989** » 01 Jan 2010 16:31

I was going to put a long and rambling post here, but instead I'll just say £10 and thanks Owen and the OpenTTD team.

Hammo · Post by **Hammo** » 01 Jan 2010 21:56

I also sent through £10 a few hours ago

Post by **orudge** » 01 Jan 2010 22:08

Thanks for all your donations so far.

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 01 Jan 2010 23:00

Hmm, did I send you some money in 2009, Owen? I'm OK with giving you a monthly fee as long as that's possible within Paypal. Otherwise I know what will happen: I forget about it.

Post by **orudge** » 02 Jan 2010 00:23

That is possible, yep, I should be able to set you up a link for that. PM me with your PayPal e-mail address and how much you want to donate each month, and I will try to set up a subscription link for you - you'll have to approve it and suchlike, of course.

Thanks!

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 02 Jan 2010 00:24

orudge wrote:That is possible, yep, I should be able to set you up a link for that. PM me with your PayPal e-mail address and how much you want to donate each month, and I will try to set up a subscription link for you - you'll have to approve it and suchlike, of course.

Thanks!

Wrote it down on a note and will do so tomorrow.

bwong · Post by **bwong** » 02 Jan 2010 16:02

There was a link for the Canadian Amazon. How can I donate there?

Daan Timmer · Post by **Daan Timmer** » 02 Jan 2010 18:18

There, I've send my first-ever donation.

Post by **orudge** » 03 Jan 2010 00:34

bwong wrote:There was a link for the Canadian Amazon. How can I donate there?

You can't "donate" as such, but any purchases you make using that link will result in a small percentage going to the forums (about 5%). Note that this doesn't cost you any more, so I'd recommend everybody on the forums updates their bookmarks to point to those links.

Thanks for all donations so far, everybody. I'm away from home just now, but shall try to keep the total roughly up-to-date as and when I can, and then will update it properly next weekend.

bwong · Post by **bwong** » 03 Jan 2010 01:27

so it would be more beneficial to donate directly, through paypal? If so, I'll try to get some money and donate

Post by **orudge** » 03 Jan 2010 01:38

Indeed so. There's also the fact that I only get paid by Amazon after reaching a certain threshold (say, $50), which can be a bit of a pain.

noofnoof · Post by **noofnoof** » 03 Jan 2010 09:53

I want to donate, but I just want to make a simple credit card transaction.

inexces · Post by **inexces** » 03 Jan 2010 12:39

Donated €5 for you guys, tnx for the energie you are putting in to this project.

And for anyone else, don`t take this site for granded and donate !

Post by **orudge** » 03 Jan 2010 16:46

noofnoof wrote:I want to donate, but I just want to make a simple credit card transaction.

You should be able to do that via the PayPal links - you don't have to create a PayPal account to make a credit card payment. Look for the bit that says:

"Don't have a PayPal account?
Use your credit card or bank account (where available). Continue"

which is somewhat hidden away on the left.

Zuu · Post by **Zuu** » 04 Jan 2010 14:21

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

It seams like the PayPall form does not have the correct hints to the browser to not remember the credit card numbers etc. (I use Mozilla Firefox) So it is a good idea to visit the donate page once more after you have made your donation and go through the credit card form and use the arrow keys and the delete button to remove the stored credit card data from your browser.

AndersI · Post by **AndersI** » 04 Jan 2010 22:16

Well, I've chipped in with my first donation to the forums (as far as I remember). Sorry for taking so long! I really appreciate the tt-forums and (most of) the people here.

@zuu: Why don't you use a 'one-time card' when paying on internet? My bank (Swedbank) makes it very easy to create a new 'virtual' card-ID for every transaction I do. Each transaction has its own limit, guaranteeing a zero-to-minimal loss whatever happens with your info.

Zuu · Post by **Zuu** » 04 Jan 2010 23:12

I use the Swedish bank that usually lag behind technology-wise (compared to other banks in Sweden). They don't provide any such virtual card service. Neither do they send email notifications on e-bills.

Post by **orudge** » 06 Jan 2010 02:19

Just to let people know that I shall update this total when I'm home on Sunday or Monday. Roughly, I think we're at around £100 or so just now. Thanks once again for all contributions so far!

noofnoof · Post by **noofnoof** » 07 Jan 2010 07:04

without being rude, and I'm just curious, how come bandwith is going up if the most users was Fri May 12, 2006 8:45 am?

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