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Apparentky if I offer a banner for a donation then it’s classed as a sale and not supposed to use the word donation in the same sentence in the post or payment button. So I’ve changed the wording to “contributions “ 😊. AI told me that payment sites have bots that scan websites and if they see you are doing something that looks like a transaction for reward rather than a “donation “ they can freeze your account.

So I shall stick to “contributions” 😊 I think it’s partly because these payment sites charge less commission for “donations “ so only allow that terminology if you’re a registered charity.

When did life get so complicated?!
 
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Apparentky if I offer a banner for a donation then it’s classed as a sale and not supposed to use the word donation in the same sentence in the post or payment button. So I’ve changed the wording to “contributions “ 😊. AI told me that payment sites have bots that scan websites and if they see you are doing something that looks like a transaction for reward rather than a “donation “ they can freeze your account.

So I shall stick to “contributions” 😊 I think it’s partly because these payment sites charge less commission for “donations “ so only allow that terminology if you’re a registered charity.

When did life get so complicated?!
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Oh dear Maz, so much to organise and so many headaches.
We can’t thank you enough for all your work 🫶🌺 everything is getting more difficult these days 🥴
 
I've got the domain name renewal cost reduced down to about £22 by ditching an apparently unnecessary upgrade on it. It was supposed to be a domain protection to ensure you don't lose it if you don't renew on time, but have just found that there are already inbuilt protections for that by law so the upgrade is just an upselling thing! So that helps reduce the target needed a bit. I also decided to only renew the .com domain name and that has reduced the bill by £82 ish a year which helps!. So the target is now £564.

Donations are currently at £282 :-)

Domain name has just been renewed early (still lasts a year from the original renewal date) and email paid up for the year. Email for forums is different to standard email as there are so many go out daily and so on so it's not really possible to get that reduced.
 
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Well - all change regarding the server. I am not going to upgrade with the same server for the next four years and will be cancelling for a refund (which is possible within 30 days), after all the problems with glitches this week just from uploading a few smilies! While I have fixed the issue, it seems there are hidden "limits" within the plan that caused the issue and I'm not happy about that and don't want to risk it happening again. So decided to switch to another server that is highly recommended by the forum software people. It's a Uk based server, also has plenty of storage, and doesn't have hidden limits. So I'm in the process of switching that over in the next few days. You shouldn't notice anything - the site will still be live as it's set up to be a smooth transition.

I am so annoyed that the server action messed up the forum for a few days! Not very friendly and took up a lot of my time this week. So the renewal is being cancelled.

As a result of this I've changed the numbers in the first post! The new server costs slightly more annually at £132 instead of £116, but can have annual renewals instead of four yearly ones, so less to raise this year :-) And it makes it easier to budge the forum costs.

So having edited the costs (I reduced the domain renewal cost too) and total needed to be raised, our new target is much less at £335.16 :-) And we already have £280 in donations. The annual costs are now £563.97 but minus the affiliate links from the past year of £228.81 that leaves a target of £335.16 to raise - which is an easier target!

Hope all that makes sense!

Donations so far - £280.
 
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