Tay Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Hi everybody, Maintaining the fourms cost $205, and we're looking to see if community members would be willing to help us cover that cost. We're poor students, and the $205 has hit us hard. If any of you are willing to help contribute via paypal, please let me know. Thanks, and welcome back! Progress $173 / $205 (USD) Nayleen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p4izanagi Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Well im gonna donate some but , maybe later. Im gonna sell some my gc (guardian cross)card first . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Will you be setting up donation button? Or what is the donation email? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted September 20, 2013 Author Share Posted September 20, 2013 Via Paypal. For people who are willing to help out, I'll PM them and get them the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted September 20, 2013 Author Share Posted September 20, 2013 Thanks to those who are contributing. Every little bit helps. Counter in top post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nohman Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 I'll happily contribute. Can you PM the donation link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted September 20, 2013 Author Share Posted September 20, 2013 I'll happily contribute. Can you PM the donation link? Sent. Thank you very, very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Tay can you pm me the details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaguya Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 (edited) Hm. I think I can contribute. Can you send me the link? EDIT: sorry, due to a certain idiot suddenly coming back my budget will be tighter than expected this month and I won't be able to help. If it's open until the 30, when I recieve my pay I should be able to do something, though. Edited September 22, 2013 by Kaguya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted September 21, 2013 Author Share Posted September 21, 2013 Tay can you pm me the details? Hm. I think I can contribute. Can you send me the link? Sent and sent. Thank you both so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrKleiner Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Can you PM me the link Tay? Won't be able to contribute much, but I still wanna do it. За ваши усилия. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Bump (even though its stickied, it should help). I know that it would feel awkward for Tay to bump this himself. Still not there guys, if anyone else could please help him, because 80$ for a single person is still shitloads of money. The loli gods will love you for it and you will go to loli heaven And its pretty fuwafuwa in there And who wouldn't want to be in fuwaheaven with lolis in fuwafuwa animal outfits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REtransInternational Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Why didn't you move to something free like phpBB/SMF/etc...? (My preference is for SMF, they're quite good.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakamutt Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Why didn't you move to something free like phpBB/SMF/etc...? (My preference is for SMF, they're quite good.)Migration turned out to be uneconomical when the time cost of getting everything back to status quo was considered, and in general this IPB skin was highly liked it seems. In the end both people doing the restoration of fuwaforums preferred IPB to PHPBB, and SMF didn't convert well (for example, all thread titles were missing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Don't think I can afford to give anymore than I have, hopefully other people can chip in a little bit If I had one complaint, the mobile version is broken for me. Can't login and the "full version" button simply adds # to url Other than that, loving this forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nayleen Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Just holding out to see if anymore people reply to this, otherwise PM me the details Tay so we can have this over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidbatman Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 I sent Tay a PM for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 Why didn't you move to something free like phpBB/SMF/etc...? (My preference is for SMF, they're quite good.) Nayleen and I spent two weekends and the week in-between making the transition to both phpBB and SMF. Neither phpBB nor SMF offers direct conversion from IPB, and our test required a vBulletin intermediate conversion (supplied by Qberty). A lot of data was lost or corrupted in the move. Not to mention that after the conversions were done, the overwhelming consensus was that the community didn't like either option. After 120 man-hours of work, Nayleen and I realized it would take another 75-100 to restore lost functionality to either platform, with an unknown amount of bug-fixing and troubleshooting. At that point, time is money, and we'd both sacrificed too much "in real life" to justify taking more time with this project. Not to mention loss due to the forums being offline. That's a lot of the story, but truthfully, many more factors went into the decision to return to IPB. I didn't make the decision lightly, but I feel the overwhelming positive response has justified it. I sent Tay a PM for the info. Sent. Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 I'd like to thank everybody who contributed. Your generosity and friendship mean a lot. I'm locking this topic -- we're close enough to our funding goal that I'll be able to work the rest out with Nayleen. Kendjin Solidbatman Tay Nayleen Nohman Luch Steve THANK YOU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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