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I expect simple behaviours here. Friendship, and love. Any advice should be from the perspective of the person asking, not the person giving! We have had to make new membership moderated to combat the huge number of spammers who register
Server costs - Keeping the site free
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I'm not yet 100% sure how it works, and there is no compulsion to contribute. I'm interested in your opinions. The site will always be free of charge, and I don't want to add tacky adverts, either. We used to have a PayPal donation scheme years ago, but PayPal's morality police cancelled the account!
You are the best folk to give feedback on this, so please let me know what you think.
What I intend to do is to put the links on sensible pages on the site itself, possibly with a cute button ]]>timmy2016-03-22T01:23:28-00:00Re: Server costs - Keeping the site free
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It will be interesting to see what others think.]]>NW2016-03-22T11:26:18-00:00Re: Server costs - Keeping the site free
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donation page.
I will, at some point, design a donation button.
Some of our authors, when they write for Nifty, request donations there on the pages of the stories they submit there. I may decide to ask them if they mind a donation request on their stories. I am not yet sure about that. You see, what I want to avoid is tackiness.]]>timmy2016-03-23T14:13:55-00:00Re: Server costs - Keeping the site free
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I'd like to suggest selling donated stories in Kindle/Ebook form. Start a book store. Work with your authors and those willing can split sales on your site with you. I'd be more than willing to put my entire 'for sale' stories collections on your site and split the earnings with you. I'll even offer to put other authors' stories in HTML, Word, RichText, or OpenOffice format into Kindle/Ebook form and you can sell them here.
We can start with the First Time Stories. I'll put them into an Ebook and Kindle format, donate the books to your site, and you can sell it for a few bucks, and keep the proceeds for the site. Those who like the stories can buy them all in one go instead of waiting for them to be posted over time. Knowing you you'd insist on sharing the revenue, but consider it my donation to the site... if it sells any worth counting.
I use PayHip for sales. It's not flashy or fancy, but it is flexible and easy, and you can have the sales sent to anything from PayPal to your bank account. https://payhip.com/RaySmithsStories
A book store probably wouldn't pay for the entire site, but it could certainly help out.
]]>Smokr2016-03-27T18:32:34-00:00Second month closes, And THANK YOU
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We have scrupulous records of all the transactions, in and out. We will not ever make a personal profit form this scheme.
Thank you, whether you are a sponsor or not.
]]>timmy2016-05-02T08:18:32-00:00Re: Second month closes, And THANK YOU
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I found the Patreon site awkward. I am not interested in a monthly contribution but would be happy to send you $20 from time to time. How can I make a donation to Iomfats directly without setting up a Patreon account?
Nick]]>Nick Brady2016-05-04T14:54:36-00:00Re: Second month closes, And THANK YOU
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"Nick Brady wrote on Wed, 04 May 2016 15:54"
Timmy -
I found the Patreon site awkward. I am not interested in a monthly contribution but would be happy to send you $20 from time to time. How can I make a donation to Iomfats directly without setting up a Patreon account?
Nick
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Before the PayPal morality police it was simple. Now it is not. I also find Patreon awkward. I hoped one could have both a monthly subscription and an occasional donation. I think one does that by donating X in month 1, and, after the source of funds is charged, turn X down to zero, only turning it up to Y when one wishes and chooses to donate.
At present we have a slight excess coming to us. I don't really want to encourage folk to increase that excess. I am honoured that you wish to contribute. What I suggest is to defer your offer until we no longer have an excess. If, then, you stil wish to contribute a small sum, of the order of a cup of coffee's worth of funds, all may have changed anyway.
I've only resorted to Patreon because advertising revenue has fallen off a cliff.
I will ask the Patreon help desk.]]>timmy2016-05-04T17:15:53-00:00Re: Second month closes, And THANK YOU
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This is a problem indeed- I've added the feature request for one-off payments, but that's not likely to be here before the next billing cycle, so here's what I'd recommend.
The site is really designed for recurring payments, so that's the easiest to do, the most difficult is those one-offs. what most people do is pledge, and then after the billing is run at the start of the new month- delete the pledge.
Solving this depends on their will to do so. There is no huge technical obstacle to doing so.]]>timmy2016-05-04T18:13:36-00:00Re: Second month closes, And THANK YOU
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Nick W.]]>NW2020-12-08T23:42:36-00:00Re: Second month closes, And THANK YOU
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"NW wrote on Tue, 08 December 2020 23:42"
So, some years later, are your costs still being covered, Timmy? I could add a quid or so to what I give, if server costs etc have gone up for you.
Nick W.
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I am so grateful for the offer, but our costs are covered with some change. The change is recorded carefully against lean times. We have a buffer]]>timmy2020-12-10T20:02:03-00:00Re: Second month closes, And THANK YOU
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N.]]>NW2020-12-10T21:28:07-00:00