On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 20:00:53 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
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.
I now, know a little more, first I had the same behavior, with
the session expired
message, than at the third try it seemed to go trough but, it
didn't.
I called my bank and they where so nice to ask at the mastercard
service what hat happened,
the result was, that my card was not using / registered for
"Mastercard® Secure Code"
But this security feature was requested by flipcause, and so the
process was canceled.
The bad thing is, that no appropriate information about this was
returned to me.
I think, for a service with a relatively high monthly fee, this
should work better, because the core feature.
