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Atheist Forums Financial Report 2017
January 9, 2018 at 10:46 pm
As 2017 was our first full year using Patreon, I though it would be a good idea to show everyone a breakdown of the costs and revenue for the site.
Our Costs
Domain Renewals: $27.64
Hosting: $544.01
SSL/TLS Certificate: $8.95
External Backups: $95.20
Total: $675.80
Our Revenue
Patreon Donations: $498.07
Advertising: $5.14*
Other Donations: $178.83
Total: $682.04
* This was our remaining balance on Tapatalk before we disabled the service for security reasons.
That leaves $6.24 leftover, which we will put back into the costs for 2018. Thank you to everyone who donated, whether you contributed a one-time amount, or contribute monthly via Patreon!
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RE: Atheist Forums Financial Report 2017
January 9, 2018 at 10:47 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2018 at 10:47 pm by SteelCurtain.)
Dude, that's awesome!
Best $5/month I ever spent.
Turning a profit over heah!
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RE: Atheist Forums Financial Report 2017
January 9, 2018 at 11:24 pm
I thought that this was a non-prophet website. 
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RE: Atheist Forums Financial Report 2017
January 9, 2018 at 11:25 pm
Amazing that you can balance a budget and Congress can't.
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RE: Atheist Forums Financial Report 2017
January 9, 2018 at 11:32 pm
Let's all go dutch to Subway to celebrate.
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RE: Atheist Forums Financial Report 2017
January 10, 2018 at 3:34 am
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2018 at 3:39 am by Joods.)
This is awesome. Keep up the great work!
@Tiberius: I'm curious if you'd be interested in having a merch shop where you don't actually purchase merchandise, but you have a spot on the website for one of those cafe stores. You could offer anything that the AF logo can be printed on. Shirts, hoodies, hats, pins, coffee mugs etc. I don't believe it would cost anything to have such a set up and people might buy things. I know I'd get a coffee mug.
Just a suggestion
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RE: Atheist Forums Financial Report 2017
January 10, 2018 at 3:46 am
Logo and the URL. Don't want to be confused with that .com over yonder.
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RE: Atheist Forums Financial Report 2017
January 10, 2018 at 3:51 am
(January 10, 2018 at 3:34 am)Joods Wrote: This is awesome. Keep up the great work!
@Tiberius: I'm curious if you'd be interested in having a merch shop where you don't actually purchase merchandise, but you have a spot on the website for one of those cafe stores. You could offer anything that the AF logo can be printed on. Shirts, hoodies, hats, pins, coffee mugs etc. I don't believe it would cost anything to have such a set up and people might buy things. I know I'd get a coffee mug.
Just a suggestion
We used to have that. Dunno what happened to it since it was before I ever got on staff.
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RE: Atheist Forums Financial Report 2017
January 10, 2018 at 9:43 am
Accountability ?
Financial statements ?
Responsibilities towards the membership ?
Jesus Fucking Christ !!!
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RE: Atheist Forums Financial Report 2017
January 10, 2018 at 9:50 am
(January 9, 2018 at 10:46 pm)Tiberius Wrote: As 2017 was our first full year using Patreon, I though it would be a good idea to show everyone a breakdown of the costs and revenue for the site.
Our Costs
Domain Renewals: $27.64
Hosting: $544.01
SSL/TLS Certificate: $8.95
External Backups: $95.20
Total: $675.80
Our Revenue
Patreon Donations: $498.07
Advertising: $5.14*
Other Donations: $178.83
Total: $682.04
* This was our remaining balance on Tapatalk before we disabled the service for security reasons.
That leaves $6.24 leftover, which we will put back into the costs for 2018. Thank you to everyone who donated, whether you contributed a one-time amount, or contribute monthly via Patreon!
Oh look at the greedy CEO here, $6.24 is enough to take every member on a trip to Hawaii! WHAT ABOUT MY DAUGHTERS?
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