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Charter membership?
Tom:
--- Quote ---Users of SMF can optionally become a "Charter Member". Charter Members have access to a member's only area of the support forums, optional installation service, upgrade services, advanced betas before anyone else gets them, and other support services. A Charter Membership costs only $49.95 per year and includes the following:
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I don't like the sound of this. Sure it starts out as just pay that and you get a few things, but soon they start moving features from the normal users and giving the to the "charter" members. Before you know it they are charging us to use the forums. :o
I've seen things like this happen before. I don't like it one bit.
Why not just ask kindly for a donation? I'm sure people will be more than willing to donate.
David:
People really don't donate, there has been a page on the old site since the beginning. The idea of charter members is just to offer stuff we normally would offer to no one to them.
Ben_S:
I'm sure it will always be free, in fact I know it will always be free.
People just dont bother to donate and unfortunatly banner ads these days tend to bring in little revenue and will nowhere near cover the cost of the server.
Ultimatly it's a users choice, the charter system will more than likely be a godsend to many people who want to run a "proper" forum, but dont have the technical capabilites to set it up propley for themselves, and if it helps to cover the costs of the server then :). The only thing release wise that I can see charter members getting that none charter members wont get is early betas.
Will leave it to the project leaders to go into more detail, but rest assured that it will remain free :).
Spaceman-Spiff:
if you read our chat session log here: http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?thread=24843
you'll see that Jeff stresses a few times that the forum will be FREE and will remain FREE
btw, how many people actually donates?
Tom:
Ok, thank you. :)
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