Hi all,

I decided to create this topic after stumbling on the donation button once again (well, it's just that I don't visit the front page that often, more directly other pages). In the beginning when Omnimaga added the option to donate to support the site it showed how much was donated and by who. This was a good thing that suddenly vanished. Personally I think that a site that accepts donations from members should also be transparent towards those members on how much money is put into the site and for what it is used. I'm not saying there should be a list of all the people who donated but generally that there should be some more output towards the members on what's going on. That's in my opinion showing some respect towards the members that put effort into supporting the site.

This is just my opinion of course and is something that I wanted to say before but forgot to do so.

On SMF 2 there is paid membership support which lets admins automatically grant extra access to donators, but the donation amount is fixed. Something like we had would be nice, but preferably automated, so admins don't have to manually update the list every week or so.

As for donations they went to contest prizes and hosting bills, but now monthly hosting fees dropped from $85+ to $25 so I dunno where extra money would go in the future. Unlike Cemetech, Planete Casio and TI Planet, Omnimaga contests were never sponsorized or affiliated with any third party offering us the prizes, so the entire prize pool had to be funded by the staff and donators, resulting in smaller prizes most times.

Well giving donators "premium" access is of course nice (although I don't know what that would be here on Omnimaga ), but my point more is that people can get a bit of an idea how the money is flowing and what is happening with it. There isn't any information about that now at the moment. Of course we make good guesses but I suppose a little page on the site dedicated to it wouldn't do much harm

I honestly haven't thought a lot about the subject but i was just wondering if a 'calc lottery (latest brand model's)' wouldn't be a possibility to further raise donations. Are there any special countraindications?

maybe there could be a trans-forum lottery, so that it is the same one for omni, ti-planet and cemetech, sharing the wins evenly

Having a poll on the forum might help knowing if it would be viable, actually.

Consider 25 people donating 10$... it could be good enough for a CX CAS.
But yeah, now we'll need to be sure 25 people give $10....

Currently donation money is going towards supporting the contest. When the contest is done I will start drawing on it to recoup server costs ($24USD/month).

On our (TI-Planet) sidebar, we have a list of recent donators (which I need to update - oops), but what we also do is that if the donator is a TI-Planet member, he becomes part of the "Premium" group (along with its tag/badge on each post), which on top of showing that the member supports us, has the feature of removing the ads on the website

There are ads on TI Planet ?
Edit : They're not disturbing anyway so I set an exception.