The Future of Thunder's Place

>Or a dollar per session skipped.<

That’s a brilliant idea. If people choose to donate an amount for every session that they skip, it might be a good motivator.

When I donate does the bank see that I just sent money to a penis forum? :P

If this site get critical then write it all over the front page of thunders!

It shows on your bank statement as

Paypal *Thunderspla (your country)

You can always say it is a donation for the environment :D

I’ll donate $5 for every 0.1 inch I gained in length and girth. I think this is a good way to contribute to this forum for providing information about PE.

That was my initial thought, I’ll donate my gains x50 or something like that…..whenever I get around to having gains…..
But I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to drop a $20 or so.

As one who’s been a part of large fundraisers before (Over 50,000 in a week was the best one) I more than understand and agree that even 1 dollar (or Euro, Rupee, Yen, Dinar, etc) from a person is a worthwhile donation. If every member who signed in and read a post once a week donated just a penny, I’m sure it would easily be 350 a month that you guys need. Hell, I spend 40 bucks a year for my Xbox Live, whats 25 a year for Thunders which will help thousands of people?

Pick up and deposit stray pop/soda/coke cans that you see laying around. I bet just about anyone can make a few bucks a week just picking those up, easily can make a buck in a month without even trying, so then you clean up this rock AND can put a dollar or two towards this place is like saving two birds at once (They were of course hit by a single stone from somebody else)

So how do things look now are we out of the red and into the black?

If you can see the forum, we are in the black, if you can’t, we are in the red. The game resets once a month on the first.

$329 a month is nothing for how many members this site has. No reason that we shouldn’t be able to cover that.

I just donated $50.

Thank you sir!!!!

Don’t know how I found this old thread, I may be out of date because this may have been discussed in another thread, BUT what about adding a section for donatiors. Like my favorite area at the bottom that DW controls. If you made an area like that for donatiors it may stir up donations.

I used to run a forum and I did that to keep it floating.

The other thing I used to have was a bar at the top of every page showing how close we where to that months goal. I did set the goal up a little over the actual money needed so I had surplus. I used the surplus on the forum also.

But in the end I wound up selling out and putting google AdWords all over the site and sold it.

This is ridiculous - if one out of a hundred members gave 25 cents a month - or $2.82 per year to be exact - it would be covered.

(Granted, I haven’t made a contribution for a long time, but I also haven’t visited the site for a long time.)

This is worrisome. This thread was made back in 2009 though. Is this still a concern?

Yelp.

TP’s is hosted at a datacenter out there, correct? I’d imagine, that with all of the text each day, the cost for storage has got to be pretty, um, sizeable. Am I correct? Are we talking about a terabyte per week, month, year?

I’m just curious.

With harddrives so cheap now I don’t think storage is the problem. Plus text is not that bad.

My guess is he needs a real healthy server to keep the site running this fast. This is the fastest forum I know of with this many members.