QEII were fantastic, as usual
Ok - I didn't put much thought into my previous posting, so I thought I best clarify before I find I upset someone...
Everybody's donations are going to save the llamasoft
forum. Basically the forum is one big bandwidth hog, and while it is part of llamasoft site it has the power of shutting down the whole site unless Jeff either (A) Personally pays large chunks of cash, or (B) shuts down the forums. These aren't pleasant choices for him to make, so we are offering to pre-emptively select choice (C) whereby we move the forum elsewhere and
we pay the large chunks of cash.
Consider it this way. Jeff held a little party and provided free beer. But instead of 30 people showing up he found himself with 300 - but as they are all well behaved it was a great party, and nobody wants it to stop. But we're costing Jeff a lot of beer, and trampling over his garden. But he doesn't seem to be the sort of guy who runs round shouting "mind my bleedin' flowers" and grumbling about going to the off-license every 30 minutes. But as considerate guests *we* should, and we're proposing that we move the party into a big field next door to Jeff's house, and asking everyone to bring their own beer. We're not demanding that Jeff move home. Yes, Jeff ends up being a guest at his own party - but honestly don't you think he'll enjoy it more that way. At the same time he is still a host - as it will be collectively hosted by all of us.
At least it has come to a crunch now - when Unity is released the forums would cause such a leap in bandwidth that blackcat wouldn't threaten, they'd starkly say pay huge wads of cash TODAY or we have to shutdown the llamasoft.co.uk site RIGHT NOW.
I thought the idea was we were chipping in for the whole site.
