f13.net

Donation button in the News Box.

There are a couple reasons this thing exists:

1. Advertisers, or rather, companies who advertise dislike crude language.
2. Advertisers do not like forums.

So we might be ad-free soon, though I'm looking into other options.

3. People who have been playing Team Fortress have asked for a donations button.
4. The money gained from this will ONLY go towards server fees. Nothing else. Ever.
5. If we get enough to pay for the servers a year or two in advance, we'll take the button down.

If you want to donate for any other reason, contact us, though it will probably go to server fees and we just won't tell you.

To give you an idea of server costs:
Server 1 (f13.net) - $1389 a year.
Server 2 (f13.games) - $1290 a year.

It's not cheap. Advertising wasn't actually covering this, any time you see ad Council ads up top, they weren't paying dick. CPM-style advertisers are indeed having trouble filling ads where people get paid for just viewing rather than clicking.

We'd like to upgrade server 1 (f13.net) and by upgrade, I mean get a completely new rig. Sometimes at night, this server lags a little and drives me nuts. It's simply old hardware (p4, not dual core, slower ram, etc).

Anyway, that's that.

Edit: Forgot to add, if we get enough for a third server, it'll most likely be Non-Steam Games. UT3, etc.

I am teh poor college student. I gave you what I could.

I'll donate next month, security deposit + some dbl renting during the move = teh lose.

WTF is the News Box? I can't find this damned thing anywhere.

Top right of this page.  It used to say "news will appear here later" or something similar.

Hey, I never realized there was a dropdown part of the top of the page! No wonder I couldn't find the goddamned thing. Donation will be sent forthwith.

Hey, wtf- my donation didn't make the meter change. I DEMAND LIVE ACCOUNTING FOR MY $25, DAMMIT.

Donated cash as well as shipped a portion of my finest quality Hanson high gloss nudes. Autographed of course.

Enjoy. (paypal has made this far too easy, didn't even need to pull out my wallet)

They're a bunch of fucking fuckbag fuckwankers.

Paid.  Now where's my muthafuggin appropriately meme'd grief title?


Seriously.  If you guys are hurting on hosting, you should just create a private members section and charge a token amount for people to subscribe.  You already have it via the Beta boards.  Use that for people to pay for access to more Beta's and more Red names.  Easy.  It start to cover your costs.




(from the guy who first suggested you create an f13-luv-in and sell warez/swag)

Wow, that sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen!  :roll:

I imagine that it would be a little more complicated to have people paying for a service rather than just donating, especially if you're using beta access as one of the incentives.  It leaves a huge possibility for sandy vaginas when schild gets 20 passes to give out and 40 "subscribers" want in and feel entitled to a beta pass because they've paid money (even if they aren't given a guarantee that they'll get into every beta).

Folks, this is a DONATION. You aren't entitled to anything other than a thank you, IMO. If you are planning to drop some money in the kitty in hopes of special treatment, you may want to reconsider.

Maybe you could send us some little ribbons to pin on our shirts.  That would be nice.

What color should they be?

Plain ribbons are boring. Can these ribbons ooze? You know, in memory of schild.

No no no.  I don't expect anything.  Come on.

I was proposing you think about something a paid membership might help with that's all. 

Numbers updated.

Paid membership requires paperwork that's not worth the time investing. If everyone gives on their own free will, everyone benefits.

Edit: I've gone through the list. I don't know who a handful of the people are, so I'm not going to make a list of people who donated. To say the least, we thank you. Muchly.

I don't know, but it should be fancy like Schild.

As in for the whole year?

Anyway, I'm a piss poor student and have to feed my alcoholism atm  :-P

As soon as I start to rake in some cash, which should be fairly soon hopefully, I'd be happy to donate.

For my part. This was a great opportunity to show support for what this site is about. A game came out that you liked. I like it to although it is a type of game that I mostly suck at. That does not mean I do not enjoy playing. You made a server and through skill or luck it rocks. Very nice pings smooth as butter. I would like to help that effort. I have some disposable income. I am not ready to sign over my paychecks to you but I am prepaired to help in projects of this type. I will probally buy t-shirts as well as you come up with them. I honestly think you are sitting on more support than you know. I like the focus of your site. I like the content. The fact that I often disagree with you really has no bearing. I like what you are doing here. I like and respect your moderators. I am willing to show my like of your content from time to time. On my terms at my discression of course.

Updated again, thanks goes to all!

Updated yet again!  :-D

Did you know? 20 People have donated thus far.

Hell, if I can piss away $100 on Hellgate:London and TF2, I can throw some money at a server. Someday, I may even get teamspeak to not crash me!

So the average donation size is about forty dollars? 

Man do I feel bad about chipping in ten less than everyone else.  I guess I can console myself with the fact that at least my posts are not as ... challenged as Hal's.

I only gave $10. But, I also live off the Government for my education and living expenses. However you look at it... I want my damn F13 hoodie!

Yes, let us buy shirts please.  Long sleeve, for those of us that have to experience winter, or short sleeve for those of you in hell.

Updated, thanks!

As for the shirts and shit, yea, well, selling 1,000 shirts at $3 profit isn't exactly an efficient way to get this done. Hence the lack of a buy shit to fund this issue link.

Still more than 0$.


EDIT: Just chipped my lewts in.

I'll have to chip in, but I wonder about F13's stance on using donation money to take a gay junket to England. 

That's not something we'd do, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Updated! Thanks to all!

Update: We're only about $400 and change from having the main f13 server paid off.  Odds are, we will go with a new server when we hit that mark. I want to upgrade this terribly old clunker to something supah speedeh.

Updated! Exactly $438 from new f13 server for the year! Thanks to all!

37.6%! Broke $1,000! :) :) :)

Fat Lewtz!

There aren't any direct flights from Sky Harbor to Paris, are there?  :evil:

Wow, main F13 server is almost paid in full for a year?


...Impressive. Would be interesting to see the log of donations (minus the actual names, of course).

Ignore this! Percentage only went up .05 and only because I took change into account! Nonetheless, thanks for everything! :)


Donations have ranged from $5 to $250.

That's the closest thing you'll get to a list.

$250? I feel so cheap. Whoever donated that, you rock.

Updated! Also, seems I've found a kickass coupon, I don't want to post about the new pricing until it's all confirmed for server configurations, but for now the number is 38.39%. Thanks again!

This seemed like the perfect place for a joke but I decided against it and deleted the post.  In the interest of not being an asshole, even if it was really funny.

I imagine it was a jew joke.

Yes, it was probably funny.

Now I'm making jew jokes at work about the kick ass coupon. :(

I was assuming it was an ass joke, but I guess I a jew joke works too.

You are both so wrong.  Having two jew friends keeps the jew-jokes to a minimum... that and the fact that there are no jews in Alabama and all of my jokes pertain to black people.  It pains me to know that you will remain forever ignorant of my awesome humor.

Now that's just not fair. You must tell!

Oh, the pain!

That's funny, having jew-friends has always had the exact opposite effect on me.  Who else are you going to tell your jew-jokes to?

Too easy.

Black people?

Suddenly this thread is a minefield.

I like to make my jew-jokes to native americans.  Those drunk fuckers will laugh at anything.

A few people have donated this week and I'm waiting for a check to clear to get the proper numbers from PayPal. Should be updated shortly. Looks like one server is paid off though :)

How about a gay junket to Michigan, tiger?  I've got the scented oils and lotions ready to go.  I've also got a wide assortment of candles for mood, and the dentist's chair finally has the hydraulics equipped...

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/spaeschke/costanza.jpg)

ETA:  $250!?!  I am a cheap bastard, apparently.

Yeah, $250 fuckin-a, I was thinking $30 at the start of Nov, stretched a bit due to moving and two actual games worth buying..

I'm gonna have updated numbers tomorrow, we're slowly getting to... 50%. New f13 server will probably be bought Friday.

Having subsidized a monetary value not even worth mentioning, f13 now has a new server for the year. Migration should happen in the next 10 days or so. f13.games is next, let's do this! Thanks so much to everyone!

Hey, thanks for letting us hang out in your Internet and drink your beer.

My internets have open doors. (can't afford doors)

You should have a comment field in the donation box. I wanted to send mine on behalf of the Nintendo Wii.

OK GUYS. PRESSING THE RESET BUTTON ON THE NUMBERS.

First server is paid for. At current discount pricing, next server will run $1,055.44 for the year.

Right now we are at 9.4% of the second server. Thanks to everyone! :)

I don't understand the "for the year" part.  If you are buying new servers, wouldn't it be "forever"?

It's not colo. It's rented servers. You know X Dollars a month = Y Dollars a year, we're paying the Y. I don't have an OC-128 running into my house unfortunately.

FIFY. This should be a tax deduction, I tell you!

No clue what the fuck OC-128 is.  There is OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, OC-192 and the unicorn-like mythical OC-768.

And Oc-1, which we'll use the donation button part 3 for!

If it's for your business it is tax deductible.

WEEEEEEEEEEEE. UPDATE TIME:

23.4% of the way to the second server. Only about $800 to go. Nearly exactly $800. $804 to be exact. :)

Awesome, for real. Too awesome for that awesome smiley in fact.

C'mon people, Daddy needs more blow.

48.3% of the way there!

Some kind soul beat the old record and donated $251!!!!

I love competition.

Ok, who's the moneybags? Sniper needs a new C2D rig.  :awesome_for_real:

I still think schild should look into the amazon.com associates thing myself.  From what I've seen, it's fairly easy to get going, and I'm sure a lot of us order shit from amazon anyway.  No extra cost for us, and he gets a small comission off what we order in theory.  He can even set up what they call an A-Store (basically a mini amazon store), and make sections for PS2 JRPGs, MP3 downloads, video game art books, and all the other weird shit he's into when he's not here telling us how much the Wii sucks.

I believe this idea to have merit.

I like this idea, too.

The Wii won't be in the store if I do that.

That's bad capitalism.

You can hate it, write that you hate it, and make money if someone buys it. That's good capitalism!

FIFY

I wouldn't take advice on capitalism from Chairman Meow

56% of the way there! Thanks! You guys rock.

We're roughly $250-$300 from either another year on f13 or another server, depending on what people REALLY DESPERATELY WANT.

Ok I go away for a fiscal quarter and f13 gang are doing the 'Less Than Zero' bit to hang on clipping their toenails in public. :)  Seriously the "Antiquarian Mason" hopes that bit helps.  Happy New Year.

80% of the way to server fees.

I'm just going to keep the button up, skip on ads, and let things do what they do best. Work themselves out.

Thanks a lot, everyone. Means a lot.