Patreon Donations
July 2, 2016 at 1:56 am
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2016 at 1:57 am by SteelCurtain.)
Hello Folks. This is going to sound like an NPR commercial, and it is intended to. 
Recent events on the site have led to a little bit of a fear of the 'direction' of AF due to bowing to the Evil Google Overlords (known henceforth as EGO). The EGO provide a steady income for the site on the Guest user side, meaning if you're not logged in to AF.org with a user account, you will see ads on certain pages, which drive revenue. Unfortunately, those ads have rules.
To overthrow the EGO, we need small donations from any user that can afford it. Literally anything will help.
If you can afford .50 cents a month, $1 a month, $2 a month, please consider signing up to be a site patron. The good thing about Patreon is that it is a set it and forget it type system. You just have to do it once, and you can turn it off if you can no longer afford it or no longer use the site, or pause it if money is tight for a while.
http://www.patreon.com/atheistforums
Another great thing is that you can also see how many users are donating how much, so once we hit or exceed our goal, everyone can back down on donations and share the load equally if they want to.
There are hundreds of regular, active users. We should have no problem hitting this goal. If you feel like AF.org provides entertainment and community to be worth the cost of a can of soda or an energy drink per month, please consider signing up. Thanks!!!
There's even a mobile app!
Google Play
iTunes App Store
Recent events on the site have led to a little bit of a fear of the 'direction' of AF due to bowing to the Evil Google Overlords (known henceforth as EGO). The EGO provide a steady income for the site on the Guest user side, meaning if you're not logged in to AF.org with a user account, you will see ads on certain pages, which drive revenue. Unfortunately, those ads have rules.
To overthrow the EGO, we need small donations from any user that can afford it. Literally anything will help.
If you can afford .50 cents a month, $1 a month, $2 a month, please consider signing up to be a site patron. The good thing about Patreon is that it is a set it and forget it type system. You just have to do it once, and you can turn it off if you can no longer afford it or no longer use the site, or pause it if money is tight for a while.
http://www.patreon.com/atheistforums
Another great thing is that you can also see how many users are donating how much, so once we hit or exceed our goal, everyone can back down on donations and share the load equally if they want to.
(July 1, 2016 at 11:43 am)Tiberius Wrote: I've done some calculations and updated the cost breakdown:
$20 per month for server costs.
$5 per month for server image backups.
$5.60 per month for remote backups.
$27.64 per year for domain renewals.
Total: ~$33 a month before tax, or $43 a month after tax.
If we aim for $50 a month then we have some leeway for unexpected costs, server upgrades, etc.
There are hundreds of regular, active users. We should have no problem hitting this goal. If you feel like AF.org provides entertainment and community to be worth the cost of a can of soda or an energy drink per month, please consider signing up. Thanks!!!
There's even a mobile app!
Google Play
iTunes App Store
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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