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mrright01

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Donations? Can We Make Them?
« on: December 01, 2004, 05:23:00 PM »

hey, i'm a big fan of xbox-scene, but have always been disappointed with the "speed" of the site. i know we can help by buying stuff from the store, but A. the shirts are out of stock right now, and B how do we help after we own a shirt? Oooooo, i know, i know

accept donations(and if we already do, please make the link easier to find). i'm also a member of another forum, and they sell t's, but they also request donations. with the donation,you become a member and you can change your title; instead of "X-S Member" i could put "motherboard killa" b/c i've fried 3. you can change your user name color, also get a larger pm box, and some better picture posting options. but anyways, the last time there was a donation request, the site got over $500 in one day, there are over 5000 registered users, but only about 300 of them are currentally active and participate in the forums. $5-$10 by most of the people goes a long way, and some, like me, gave more because the help given there was worth a lot to me and couldn't be found anywhere else. and after that last donation, they aren't even accepting any more money, they said the bill is paid through the next year. so with the number of members here, we should be able to upgrade, or whatever is needed to get this site where it should be. when it's "donation time" put the donation thread at the top of every forum, and get paypal ready.

i hope this thread helps the site in some way, thanks xbox-scene, you've given so much to me, let me give something back


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wowko

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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2004, 07:06:00 PM »

i'd donate 20-50 bucks to make this site faster!

This post has been edited by wowko: Dec 2 2004, 03:11 AM
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XanTium

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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2004, 08:09:00 PM »

Things is ... it's not easy to improve the speed of the forums without speding money that is way above the amount any donation round could bring in.

We're on high end 'x86-technology' servers right now.
And prices of Sun or IBM web-servers are just widely out of what we can or could afford.

With the see-what-threads-you-replied-on-icon disabled we can keep the forum pretty quick actually (like it's running atm). People like this feature tho ... as it's pretty useful.

We are also working with Invision and a GFX company to upgrade to IPB v2 soon, they promised us it would be more efficient then v1.3 ... we'll see.
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