st_owly said:
I can maybe scrape together a bit of cash after Christmas
Thank you so much!
MaxonTreik said:
I would if my bank had not cutoff my bank account from my Paypal account, the bastards. If I get it sorted I'll definitely give a hand.
Thank you Maxon! You can still donate with Credit card or Debit card if you don't have a paypal account.
ayase said:
I'll give what I can, but right now that won't be a lot. If I had a job and it hadn't been coming up to Christmas, I would give a lot more.
Thank you so much for your donation!
ayase said:
Seems like a good time to say thank you to chaos and everyone else who has helped run or been part of AUKN over the years - It's been a great source of information, enjoyment and cameraderie to me, and it would please me greatly to see it continue to thrive.
Thanks Ayase! The website is only as good as the community around it. I'm quite glad that we have a great community here.
Mohawk52 said:
Why is the donate site called "Learning to Fly Ltd."?
That's my company name, although AUKN has nothing to do with it, but I am using my own paypal account, rather than create a brand new for the website. Although, now that you're questioning it, I'll consider opening a new AUKN acct.
fabricatedlunatic said:
You've picked the absolute worst time of the year to ask for donations
I was procrastinating this decision since September. Now I have some free time, so I was working on making sure the website feels like a single website rather than the patch up it currently is and as I was doing it, I realised I'd need to save some space for banners... So I thought to myself, it's now or never....
fabricatedlunatic said:
I'll definitely sort you out with something next month. In the meantime I'm gonna start thinking up an amusing custom title... this may take a while.
Thank you so much for this!
fabricatedlunatic said:
Personally I wouldn't mind unobtrusive banner ads from reputable companies if that's what it took to keep the site running.
Lawrence said:
I agree with the unobtrusive banners, I mean plenty of other sites have banners that are run by reasonably reputable companies and don't look too bad.
Problem with banners is that if they are too out of the way, they may not have value for companies to announce.
Lawrence said:
Also, I'd be happy to donate much like everyone else but again, it's almost christmas, so perhaps when I'm paid next week? Not that I mean to sound unappreciative by saying that but more that I have other things to sort first.
We are in no hurry and we appreciate any amount =) Thank you so much for that!
Lawrence said:
Just out of curiosity, is there a target we have to meet? Some other sites that ask for donations to stay ad free usually have a target that updates as donations are made i,e, "£x/£xx"
I never really calculated expenses for AUKN, hosting alone is £150/year, I estimate we spend an extra £100 with mail (general AUKN staff mail is pretty cheap, but competition prizes are usually not so much). I'll update the first post with donations / amounts later.
