Please Consider Donations To Keep The Board Running

[knight1fox3]

Hello fellow EEs!

I wanted to pass along an important message from another member of this forum. Due to the influx of members on this forum with the latest exam cycle, maintenance and operation fees have also risen accordingly. As such, there are a limited number of options as described in the post below. If you value this community as a resource in your exam studies or even as a technical resource, please consider donating to the board to help keep things running around here. This a great and very helpful community. The owner of the board kindly keeps this place running out of his own pocket. But like most everyone else, he has a family, bills, misc. expenses, etc. to pay. So if this board has helped you either in your exam studies, as a technical resource, or even just a friendly community to ask questions or discuss certain topics, please consider donating what you think this forum has been worth to you. There is a "Donate" button on the main page that will allow you to make a donation. Thank you kindly and we are very excited about how quickly this community is growing. Now we just need to keep the doors open!

Yesterday, the cost to run this place has doubled. The amount of traffic that has been on the board the past two weeks just pushed Engineer Boards into the next pricing bracket and that value is close to $400 per month. It was close to $200 per month just a week ago. There are some other expenses as well. Road Guy (Mike) has been paying out of pocket a few hundred dollars per year to keep this board afloat, now we're basically asking him to pay a few thousand dollars a year out of pocket. Keep that in mind. He has a family too.

Options are:

1. Charge membership fees

2. Charge more for advertisement

3. Sell the board

4. Close it down

5. Rely on donations

 

[electricalPickles PE]

Just donated! Wish I had just done supporting member instead, that was dumb.

 

[knight1fox3]

Just donated! Wish I had just done supporting member instead, that was dumb.

Thank you for your support! Very much appreciated.