How can I make a donation ? I have no Paypal and live in the EU.
I use this forum intermittently, beside CloudyNights, the latter being American in most cases. Occasionally I travel to southern locations like South Africa or Australia for doing astrophotography or visually viewing the southern skies.
I like this forum much.
How can I make a donation ? I have no Paypal and live in the EU.
I use this forum intermittently, beside CloudyNights, the latter being American in most cases. Occasionally I travel to southern locations like South Africa or Australia for doing astrophotography or visually viewing the southern skies.
I like this forum much.
Bottom of the left bar where you'll see an icon Donate IceInSpace
I am in another large group which uses the Mighty Networks platform. This works on computers and also has a mobile app. We each pay $50 a year to maintain that site and it offers fantastic opportunities for sub groups, member to member messaging, etc. Our local Astronomical societies are using the Member Jungle platform, which works on mobile devices.
I'm admit I'm dumb when it comes to such things, but do existing forum sites allow archive integration? Would it be as simple as writing a script to translate the backend database into the format the new site requires?
Like I said, I'm dumb on such things - I'm sure there is a reason why it can't be done, I'm just curious what it is.
I haven’t really been posting much in the last year or two but like a fly on the wall, I’ve continually been hanging around
I tend to believe that subscriptions to use the forum, although solving the immediate problem, could slow down or stop new members into the future. Peter Ward did have a good option of putting on a subscription onto the classifieds (i think this is better than a % of sales). The biggest wealth on this forum is the two decades of information and putting that behind a paywall could stop new growth.
Moving this forum to Facebook or Discord; not something that’ll work in my opinion. Forums allow for a topic separation that make them functional. Plus, there is so much knowledge that’s already on here!
I have only just seen this thread, even though I am on Iceinspace regularly.
I am in favour of the voluntary donation model. I'm personally happy to donate to things like Wikipedia and the Inaturalist app to keep them afloat and keep the big corporations out of discussions I really enjoy. Having read the entire thread, there seem to be enough people around who think the same.
I value Iceinspace, so am happy to contribute this way.My resolution is to post here more often as well.
Took a few months off-line so missed all this (first time in over 30 years!). My donation is also coming.
I'm happy to go with a donation model, even putting out a call every couple of months if needed. I would also support a yearly subscription to SELL on the classifieds - it would eliminate any scammers & still allow access for new members to make use of the site. I don't really like the idea of a subscription just to use the rest of the forum, that may drive too many away & prevent encouraging new members to become involved.
I think the site itself needs a "refresh" and more regular updates. It's been about 10 years since the last review or article was done. People need to be encouraged to write on what they know, not just on the forums but instead keeping at least the article section new & fresh - so much has changed. I would do some, but my lack of real knowledge would be a let down. And some of the links & info are so out of date (IceInSpace AstroCamp???). We need something new!
While it has been over 20 years since I ran websites & forums I'm willing to help in any way I can if you need it.
