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Could you help out by donating?
Yes, I could help by donating 5 (100%)
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Topic Started: Oct 16 2008, 06:24 PM (1,130 Views)
Krushrpants
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Well, with all of this losing 5 months of... everything stuff going on, we've got some ideas, and we need to know what you guys would like to do.

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First off, it was proposed by some of the administration probably... 6 months to a year ago to get a paid for version of invisionfree, or some other software so that we could have a lot more freedom in what we want to do on the site. With the events of the past few days, this idea has come more alive than ever, really.

It's blatantly apparent that Zetaboards does NOT do regular backups of their servers, which is why they had to roll us back to the day we were converted to Zetaboards... the only data they had in their backup center was from when we were still an Invisionfree site. Which leads to the conclusion that this scenario could possibly happen again in the future.

Now, Im not all happy about having to basically redo everything from the last 5 months with the possibility of losing it again. (We lost the skins, emoticons, webpages, everything. Nothing works.)

The idea is: why do all the work to remake this site when we could do the same amount of work, but on a site which would have a lot more features, and could actually make money for our domain/hosting costs (and where excess would go to hosting giveaway events to attract more members, or to upgrading the site further)?

(Enough beating around the bush, I just wanted you to see where we were coming from.)

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The best idea we've come up with is to buy the IPB forum software, which costs $150, and host the site on microswift.com, seeing as they have extremely cheap prices ($5 per month) with good service. (Hyrule.net uses microswift.) Having our own hosting service, and having our own version of the software would mean that we could host our own ads on the site. (Ads meaning, we make money to pay for hosting / domain / contest costs.)

I have no problem doing the $5 per month on hosting, and contributing to the IPB software, the only issue is - we need to gather up $150 to actually buy the IPB software. We were curious as to how many of you could actually donate to the cause... and depending on the response would determine the outcome of this idea.

Now, the only issue I see with this idea is we would have to start over. By that I mean, on a forum with 0 posts, and (initially) 0 members. We would keep this, the Zetaboards forum up, just display a link at the top instead of the banner which would direct you to the new forum. All topics and stuff (that didn't get deleted from the last 3 days) would still be viewable.

Thoughts?
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I will donate using PayPal if that's okay....
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Hmmmmmm... sounds good... but Parents wouldn't let me waste money on this... they think I should save every dollar I get for College...
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Its not as though it would be a mandatory donation thing, just if you could, every dollar would be that much closer to 150.
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I'll see what I can do. I'm tight on cash, but I figure I like this forum enough to try and keep it going.
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Do you accept MasterCard? :lol:

Seriously, I don't have any real cash on me right now, just my credit card.
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eomund

I could donate. Post up a paypal if/when you're ready.
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I would donate, but I'm extremely low on cash right now. :\
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DJtheDJ
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I support this. It's just that I don't have a job and my mom would find this pretty pointless so she wouldn't give me money unless she thought it was for lunch or something.

Wait, does this mean that any banned members from May to Present day are unbanned?
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Oct 16 2008, 06:37 PM
I support this. It's just that I don't have a job and my mom would find this pretty pointless so she wouldn't give me money unless she thought it was for lunch or something.

Wait, does this mean that any banned members from May to Present day are unbanned?
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eomund

Hahaha, oh god, lets not open that door again.

But really, I could spare $30-$40 if it's necessary.
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It's times like this I wish I had a job.

I like this idea.



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So what? The general consensus as of now is that we all like the idea, but everyone save Eomund is a broke hobo who has no money to spare?
Edited by Captain BonBon, Oct 16 2008, 06:47 PM.
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Captain BonBon
Oct 16 2008, 06:47 PM
So what? The general consensus as of now is that we all like the idea, but everyone save Eomund is a broke hobo who has no money to spare?
Basically. And most of us would have trouble convincing parents to let us donate money to an internet forum unless we have a TON to spare or somthing...

Sorry, but i can't donate. I hope this goes through, though.
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Oct 16 2008, 06:47 PM
So what? The general consensus as of now is that we all like the idea, but everyone save Eomund is a broke hobo who has no money to spare?
Haha, it pays to work full time, litterally.
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