Building Community Through Compensated Contributions

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

My main forum runs entirely on donations and I’ve added a small feature (using Ko-fi’s API) that helps reach the donations goal much faster than before:

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I own a decently active forum. It costs about 300$ a year (hosting, emails, domain name, CDN, backups), and is 100% funded by users’ donations.

The donations have been working very well for a few years now, even if it required sometimes several months until fees are met.

I recently set a real-time donations progress bar on the forum and it was a huge incentive for members to donate. Instead of waiting months fo reach the servers’ annual fees, it only took a few days this year.

You can see it live here: https://unicyclist.com (can’t be seen anymore since donation reached the goal in 2 days only… )