Mike
Well-Known Member
During the month of May, I:
I want to thank everyone for granting me the opportunity to not only maintain this forum for all of you, but also for giving the me chance to cover 53% of the hosting costs out of my own pocket. I thrill in the delight of paying for the opportunity to have a place to add to my personal workload and to provide a place for you to pass the time. (Gee, did that sound sarcastic?)
People, I give up. And before some smartarse without half a clue suggests I am giving up because I don't care about this site, let me point out that just SIX members donated to this site, during the month of May. So it is certainly not a case of my not caring about the site, it is a case of the majority of you not caring about this site.
I've tried everything I know to grow this site. I've stayed abreast of technology and have tested ways of both making and keeping this site stable, secure and fast. I've added scripts to provide features members have asked for. I've promoted this place on other sites. I've spent hundreds (thousands?) of hours, trying to improve on-page search engine optimization for this site. And nearly all of it has worked, and worked well.
Yet it still seems like six or seven times, each year, I have to remind everyone this site is donation-driven. And that without your donations, this place cannot move forward. It gets everyone all excited and community-minded. For about 3 minutes. And then I am once again left in the position of begging you to let me provide you with a place to pass your time away. I had to sell my gaberlunzie license to help cover this morning's unexpected expense, which means I am finished with playing the part of beggar. If you've not figured it out by now, nothing I can do or say will help at this late date.
Sorry people, but paying for the right to sort out people's technical problems, paying for the right to be bitched at when things don't work the way others want and paying for the right to take care of all the maintenance on this place have finally worn me out. I'll check the donations on 30 June and if there is enough money on hand to cover July's expenses, I will pay the bill. If the money falls short.... I think you are all bright enough to sort that out for yourselves.
- upgraded the PHP script on the server
- upgraded MySQL to the latest version
- upgraded Tapatalk to the latest version
- upgraded Xen Media Gallery to the latest versio
- Added RAM to our server plan
- Changed the database system from MySQL to MariaDB
- Upgraded Xen Media Gallery to the latest version, again
- Upgraded Xen Media Gallery to the latest version, again
- Upgraded Xen Media Gallery to the latest version, again
- Upgraded Xen Media Gallery to the latest version, again
- upgraded the DXF forum style to the latest version
- upgraded the DXF-Red forum style to the latest version
- upgraded the NodesAsTabs script to the latest version
- blocked 10,037 spam registration attempts
- fielded 87 tech questions on the Contact Us form
- fielded 1 tech question on the Help Desk
I want to thank everyone for granting me the opportunity to not only maintain this forum for all of you, but also for giving the me chance to cover 53% of the hosting costs out of my own pocket. I thrill in the delight of paying for the opportunity to have a place to add to my personal workload and to provide a place for you to pass the time. (Gee, did that sound sarcastic?)
People, I give up. And before some smartarse without half a clue suggests I am giving up because I don't care about this site, let me point out that just SIX members donated to this site, during the month of May. So it is certainly not a case of my not caring about the site, it is a case of the majority of you not caring about this site.
I've tried everything I know to grow this site. I've stayed abreast of technology and have tested ways of both making and keeping this site stable, secure and fast. I've added scripts to provide features members have asked for. I've promoted this place on other sites. I've spent hundreds (thousands?) of hours, trying to improve on-page search engine optimization for this site. And nearly all of it has worked, and worked well.
Yet it still seems like six or seven times, each year, I have to remind everyone this site is donation-driven. And that without your donations, this place cannot move forward. It gets everyone all excited and community-minded. For about 3 minutes. And then I am once again left in the position of begging you to let me provide you with a place to pass your time away. I had to sell my gaberlunzie license to help cover this morning's unexpected expense, which means I am finished with playing the part of beggar. If you've not figured it out by now, nothing I can do or say will help at this late date.
Sorry people, but paying for the right to sort out people's technical problems, paying for the right to be bitched at when things don't work the way others want and paying for the right to take care of all the maintenance on this place have finally worn me out. I'll check the donations on 30 June and if there is enough money on hand to cover July's expenses, I will pay the bill. If the money falls short.... I think you are all bright enough to sort that out for yourselves.