Ad support is great, but I don't imagine you are getting a lot of money from it Cheat. I like the website the way it is now, but it isn't perfect. A live chat implementation or the ability to upload videos and play games would be great. I know you can't make these improvements because you probably have other things going on in your life that demand you attention, plus it probably would cost more server space. However, if you were to run a donation drive, I think that would be a great way to raise funds. Once per month, you would have a window pop up and ask the users if they would like to donate money. Perhaps add a countdown timer to ensure they don't mistake it for a pop-up ad and close it before seeing what it is. Perhaps a sound prompt would alert users its donation time. A lot of people care about this offsite of yours and I think it would benefit the user-base in the long run.

EDIT: You could also offer rewards to users who contribute the biggest donations. For example: elite statuses, colored text, etc

EDIT: Perhaps even a subscription service would suffice.

tl;dr

Which is exactly what your mother said when I asked her to read the manuscript I had tattooed onto my dick.

Sep7agon needs microtransactions

Quote from: challengerX on April 04, 2015, 03:21:45 PM

tl;dr

Which is exactly what your mother said when I asked her to read the manuscript I had tattooed onto my dick.

must have been a tiny manuscript to fit on your dick.

Quote from: Jono on April 04, 2015, 03:33:20 PM

Sep7agon needs microtransactions

$0.50 for an upboat!

And yeah, I've thought about it. It might eventually happen, too, but I don't currently have any plans to open up donations. That's not to say I'm against it, but right now I have other stuff I'm working on and the ads are adequate for keeping us afloat for now.

That said, SMF does have a premium membership feature that would make this really easy, so we'll just see. Would any of you guys actually be interested in donating like $5 to $10 per month if it disabled ads for you?

Implement a supporter title for $25 a year with ads disabled for us and I'm in. Newgrounds does this to stay afloat.

OH! Even better! Supporter nameplate! I'll make one now!

Look, this isn't catholic church, here.

These talks are old. Cheat's generally moved to keep off donations and such unless it's really necessary. From what I understand not too much is actually needed to fund this place for a year.

As I told Cheat. I'd fund the place if it came to that. I can pull five bucks a day outta my pocket every day.

we should do what something awful forums does and allow users to pay $10 to change the avatar of another user

and for the user to have to pay $5 to change it back

No. That's a horrible idea.

Quote from: Ryle on April 04, 2015, 08:45:20 PM

we should do what something awful forums does and allow users to pay $10 to change the avatar of another user

and for the user to have to pay $5 to change it back

No. That's a horrible idea.

It's a brilliant idea

Quote from: BritishLemön | sure on April 04, 2015, 10:14:54 PM

Quote from: Decimator Omega on April 04, 2015, 09:35:10 PM

Quote from: Ryle on April 04, 2015, 08:45:20 PM

we should do what something awful forums does and allow users to pay $10 to change the avatar of another user

and for the user to have to pay $5 to change it back

No. That's a horrible idea.

It's a brilliant idea

If anyone changes my avatar to something stupid I am so going to make sure they get banned. I'm not going to pay $5 to change my shit back.

If it was an actual feature then you can't ban them for using it.

Guys, just give me money, and I'll pass it on to Cheat. Easy solution.