Future funding for Dyxum

Just paid by paypal , set it up as friends and family , payment by UK £ to Bob in UK £ .
Used my debit card , no additional charges were made .

I agree a poll should be set up to gauge how many people would be willing to donate , and averaged across that number , including sponsors or advertising revenue etc , how much needs to be donated in total so a figure needs to be donated ( on average ) per person for the site to continue .
Obviously how much money people have to spare will vary greatly whether it's 50p or £50 it all adds up .

A running total would also be good to be visible , so it can be seen where the forums at .

Very interesting thread. I am willing to make a donation but first I would like to get some kind of figure of an average and appropriate size of such donation related to the total cost for Dyxum.

I am a member of a club in Sweden with a very popular forum. We have three different levels for users:

1. Guest, can only read public parts of the forum, no registration
2. "Interested" registered user that can write up to 300 posts in public parts of our forum, no pictures, free of charge.
3. "Member", can write unlimited amount of posts including unlimited number of pictures etc. Pictures uploaded and stored on our own server. Access to the whole forum, annual fee of 7.50 GBP.

Today we have roughly 35 000 registered users including 16 000 paying members.

It would be interesting to know how much it would cost per paying member if Dyxum could store uploaded pictures. Today I don´t post any pictures at all as I am fed up with the hassle to upload to a different site, copy link and then go to Dyxum to paste link only to find that links are broken after a couple of years or even months. Boring to look at threads one or two years old or older with so many posts with broken links.

I understand that it all comes down to number of users willing to make donations so a poll makes sense.

I would seriously consider a move to shared hosting - I suspect the cost would be dramatically lower. I pay about £300 a year for multiple websites, loads of databases, storage, email, backups, etc. and am looking at cheaper options. The Ad income may cover it.

PayPal fee when sending GBP to Dyxum seem to be 2.4%.

PayPal costs are complicated...

Like I said, I do not have PayPal - are there other options to contribute?

Maybe a yearly donation drive is an idea?
I doubt a "different mount cameras" section will improve the number of visitors much. A lot of photographers use Sony but most of them aren't here.....

Regarding the unexpected currency conversions - it turned out I had the primary currency as dollars previously.

Bob, I found my primary currency was USD also, something within paypal must have switched it as it was certainly GBP before. I changed it back but your setting must have forced the conversion when I made the payment.