"Save the Forums" Fund

Ahchay · Post by **Ahchay** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:15 pm 0

ekendrick wrote:luv n hugs. Eric.

/me hugs Eric back...

Cheers
Chris

Tmuk · Post by **Tmuk** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 2:36 pm 0

Hope all goes well Eric

ekendrick · Post by **ekendrick** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 3:48 pm 0

Others here have gone through far far worse - my problems are barely a blip, and mainly of my own creation. I can always sell my home in Crewe and move to Aldershot - I'm just not prepared to do that. I'd save 200 quid a month if I didn't go home every weekend, but I'm not prepared to do that either

I'm a positive thinking guy though. "Change as a source of opportunity" and "Necessity being the mother of all invention" and all that. I'll work out something.

PFVA · Post by **PFVA** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 6:54 pm 0

Hang in there. A wind of fluffy thoughts is being sent your way. Hopefully everything will work out for you in the end.
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Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 12:36 pm 0

So I logged into the account this morning to check for any weekend receipts and discovered that the balance had swelled by Â£0.65

"Awwww!", I thought. "Someone has raided the kiddie's piggy bank and generously given their everything to help support the YakYak forums." (Or did I think, "Which mean baaaa...."

)
What I actually discovered is that although the account has been open for less than a month and only passed the Â£500 mark less than 2 weeks ago, it has already earned interest of Â£0.65

This interest will, in the future, more than offset the amount we pay on our few necessary PayPal donations.

What an excellent bank

PS BTW that makes the balance Â£809.65

Dr. M · Post by **Dr. M** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 1:32 pm 0

Wahoo!

Great news, Elizian

Last post of the night.

catch you all in the morning.

Time for bed, said Zebedee

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:52 pm 0

Elizian wrote:PS BTW that makes the balance Â£809.65

Sweet Mother of Goat

One would imagine that things are sortable, then

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 1:10 pm 0

The Llamapledge page is up-to-date but I am posting here to inform you that the current account balance has passed our target and stands at Â£834.65 ... with some cheques to cash and some cash sitting in PayPal.

By the way the smile bank has a very

fluffy front page at the moment

The Flossie Lloves You Roll of Honour is:

jimatargoed
Truemetaluk
moobaa
korruptor
stark
Mayhem
koworld
nitebycandlelite
cyric100
Jimaroid
Gus
PVB
PFVA
Dave
lisawolf
Kemper_Boyd
sarabob
Elizian
sty
EssexBoy
hyphz
Spirit
Dr M
Jon
Ahchay
corrosive
M
venusian
Ely
lardygaz
strangeloop
jshawnd
partz
Misfit
Cippy
fflip
dtj
alexmcchesney

(If you have contributed but your name is not in this list, please PM me. (Even the Pope might make a mistake))

If you have pledged but your name is not in the list, I need to hear from you

Post by **Muttley** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 2:02 pm 0

You may be wondering just what the hell is going on with the forum hosting.

Hopefully, all your answers are here: UPDATE: Forum Hosting

Muttley

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 4:50 pm 0

Good work Muttley. I am still standing by with the funds ...

The Llamapledge page is up-to-date but I am posting here to inform you that the current account balance has passed our target and stands at Â£944.26 This includes another Â£1.61 interest, but there are no transfers outstanding. Check the list to make sure you are included.

The "Flossie Lloves You" Roll of Honour is:

jimatargoed
Truemetaluk
moobaa
korruptor
stark
Mayhem
koworld
nitebycandlelite
cyric100
Jimaroid
Gus
PVB
PFVA
Dave
lisawolf
Kemper_Boyd
sarabob
Elizian
sty
mattley
EssexBoy
hyphz
Spirit
Dr M
Jon
Ahchay
corrosive
M
venusian
Ely
lardygaz
strangeloop
jshawnd
partz
Misfit
Cippy
fflip
dtj
sumpter
alexmcchesney

(If you have contributed but your name is not in this list, please PM me. (Even the Pope might make a mistake))

If you have pledged but your name is not in the list, I would like to hear from you

JamesMolloy · Post by **JamesMolloy** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:31 pm 0

Why doesn't Yak just auction off some of his stuff on Ebay. Stuff like his Atari Falcon dev kit could net him a couple of grand.

I find it hard to stomach that a guy with three flat screen monitors, arcade machines, pinballs, music servers, home cinema projectors, tablet pc's and a Qube in the post can't afford a couple of hundred quid for web hosting.

I would have imagined that Lionhead would be happy to host it for free anyway. They've got massive web resources.

strawdonkey · Post by **strawdonkey** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 8:35 pm 0

Lionhead might host a Unity forum, sure, but this is Llamasoft we're talking about... And if we're all honest, why should he host it himself at cost, anyway?

We're a community, we're all chipping in to make sure we can still be a community - It's not the way it works in real life, but we can still be naive here and keep ourselves happy.

And, y'know... it's nice to do. Surely there's no better reason than that?

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 12:07 am 0

More to the point... would LH like their plentiful web resources being used for people to say "cunty cunt piss fucking cunt"?

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 12:12 am 0

JamesMolloy wrote:Why doesn't Yak just auction off some of his stuff on Ebay. Stuff like his Atari Falcon dev kit could net him a couple of grand.
I find it hard to stomach that a guy with three flat screen monitors, arcade machines, pinballs, music servers, home cinema projectors, tablet pc's and a Qube in the post can't afford a couple of hundred quid for web hosting.

He and the other eight members of his household may not be facing starvation any more but I think that he's doing quite enough for us already. This isn't just Jeff's forum; it's for everyone who happens to be into the kinds of things he's into (and those who just like him as a person) to communicate with each other. I'm not here for Jeff's benefit but for my own, for the pleasure of chatting to you lot. In any case, if I go out to dinner with someone who's reasonably well off I don't expect them to shoulder the bill irrespective of my relative poverty.

I would have imagined that Lionhead would be happy to host it for free anyway. They've got massive web resources.

That would be nice but this site isn't focused upon Unity or VLM3, which are LH's only official areas of interest. Also, as Moobaa implies, any official forum hosted by them would likely be restricted for legal and corporate reasons.

nitebycandlelite wrote:We're a community, we're all chipping in to make sure we can still be a community - It's not the way it works in real life, but we can still be naive here and keep ourselves happy.
And, y'know... it's nice to do. Surely there's no better reason than that?

Inasmuch as the servers exist in real life and those who can make it (the Travel Fund is there people) meet up in real life, it is working astoundingly well at this stage

Just the fact that we can make it work is probably reason enough

.

H.
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* One of us is thinking about sex... OK, it's me.

Post by **Muttley** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 5:18 pm 0

Just to let everyone know, the new forum hosting has succesfully been arranged and finalised. Now we just need to organise the migration plan.

Another update will occur once that is sorted to let people know of any scheduled downtime (this should be minimal to be honest).

Cheers for all your support (both monetary and in kind words)

Muttley