Am 25.01.19 um 18:01 schrieb Mike Parker: > One of the options we were considering for a new fundraising campaign > was raising money for Vladimir's continuing efforts on the forums. He's > been maintaining them, and covering the server, without any compensation > since the beginning. The recent thread about forum outages pushed all > other considerations aside: it's time to support Vladimir. > > However, being the awesome guy he is, he insisted we only help out in > covering the server costs. So that's what we're setting out to do with > the new campaign. > > He has a list of options to improve the forum performance, one of which > he recently implemented (moving the database to a new partition). A new > server with more resources and an SSD should show an even bigger win. > Then he can take the time to do his other optimizations at his leisure. > > We're asking the community to contribute $2000 to cover the new server > for one year, with a little bit extra for any incidentals that arise. > This is a campaign we want to make an annual event so that Vladimir > never has to pay out of pocket for the server again. > > The campaign is available from the menu on the Donate page, but you can > go straight to it here: > > https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDkzNjc= > > And if you also want to support Vladimir in the broader work he does on > all the open source software he puts out, he has a Patreon page that is > looking pretty empty right now: > > https://www.patreon.com/cybershadow > > Next month, I'll be launching Round 2 of the PR Manager campaign for > another three months of PR trimming goodness. We pulled in $3,124 from > Round 1, so the extra $124 will be used for a head start on Round 2. > > I'll put all of this in a blog post in the next few days, along with > some other info.
I would like to donate for this, but flipcause does not seem to work for me at all: I tried to make the donation several times, but after entering all the details and payment details and clicking on "Finish", I either got a message saying something like "Sorry, your session expired. Redirecting you to 'Home'" or i was simply redirected to 'Home' without any message. Considering the other comments in this thread, it seems like I am not the only one who has issues like that. Maybe you should get in touch with flipcause in order to try to resolve these issues.