DONATIONSThanks to those who donated in the six weeks since the 2nd May to support the site (some have donated multiple times) and they are listed below
:
AlexMUK
derekh
ip75
lf2k
longstaff
pooclah
valleysboy
vic0239
COSTS OF RUNNING THE SERVICE AND DONATIONSAs intimated a month ago, the physical costs of running/maintaining and upgrading the server are still not in any way reduced/countered by donations. So if the donations do not pick up quickly, the site will move to requesting a small one-off minimum donation and to restrict access to older data (back by a fixed number of days) to those users who have not donated. Basic access will otherwise remain free to Registered users. The code to achieve this is already in place but not yet implemented.
Also, as of today, those Registered Users who have supported the site from its inception last year, either by monetary donation or through other support such as being admins, providing facilities, helping with publicity, assisting with testing and so on, will have recognition as MDWS Supporters by having their user names highlighted in green in the two lists of currently active users that appear at the bottom of the main page. This is something I've done in the past on other sites I've worked on that were supported by donations, notably Jag-lovers. Might also have a separate list of donee usernames (only) available as there are a couple of donees who don't use the site much.
The process of recognising users who subsequently donate via PayPal is automated providing you either donate from the same e-mail you are Registered with or your registered name is uniquely identifiable or you add (in the PayPal comments/message facility) your user name in the form:
username:
myusernameso it can be picked up (checked every 5 mins). Otherwise you'll have to wait until it can be processed manually.
Thanks for your support. There are currently 334 Registered Users.