User talk:Dusti
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Orain's FIRST donation drive!!
As many of you may have seen, Orain has been undergoing some significant changes. To be frank, we've outgrown our current home. With 288 communities, 1,000+ users, and sites like All The Tropes growing daily - we're beginning to look at the long term future of the project. With current funding levels, we can last four more months after we upgrade to some new servers. Our last server change wasn't that long ago, yes, but it was done to improve the overall stability and functionality of the site.
We've launched an Indegogo campaign to raise $5,000 to accomplish a couple of things:
- We would be able to move to a stable, secure, short to mid term server that has the capability to not only host us now but continue hosting us even if we grow significantly
- Begin the process of investigating solutions that include us purchasing our own private servers
- Begin working on expanding our current abilities and addressing some of our limitations
- Developing some extensions, widgets, and potentially a mobile application to improve the end-user experience
- .. and finally being reaching out to other mid to large size communities and bring them into the Orain family.
To increase the likelihood of donations we've included some incentives that we'd love to send out including t-shirts, hoodies, blankets, and some new userrights - Donor and VIP which will come with their own individual perks.
We appreciate your generosity and look forward on continuing to offer a fun, free, collaborative community for all to enjoy.
For the staff -- Dusti 08:00, 5 January 2015 (GMT)
My apologies on sending this out again, the first messages had an error
- From the indiegogo page: "we're paying roughly $65-$80 a month for our hosting services. That cost is going to double as we move to accommodate our current community and the amount of traffic that our communities receive."
- So, you need $160 a month to handle the bandwidth costs as the number of page hits and wikis increase? Will that get you through the next year for sure without buying equipment? I need some firm numbers to pass on to possible donors. 160 times 12 is $1920. So if I find someone to donate $1920 we are good to go for a year? I actually prefer ads to donation drives due to the fear that donation drives engender in me that another wiki farm is going to have to fold due to lack of funds and volunteers. --Timeshifter (talk) 09:14, 10 January 2015 (GMT)
SHA-512 committed identity hash
Hi. The long hash number is messing up your user page on my monitor currently set at 1600 x 900. The table and text extend past the edge of my screen. The text for the hash is set in a large text size. Set your screen resolution to 1600 x 900 to see the problem.
One solution might be to put the hash in a collapsed table:
| Hash number -- |
|---|
| 32E9351A1ABFA745207703FFFFAB57476C50C6709E1FFA44E9B4AC99FBAC6E2EFC969EC82C3F24D45410201FA2EF7AEB075C703F8EE99E96F671A09BC11FCBC8 |
But then the collapse button also goes past the edge of the screen.
An easier solution is to remove the hash from the table altogether: 32E9351A1ABFA745207703FFFFAB57476C50C6709E1FFA44E9B4AC99FBAC6E2EFC969EC82C3F24D45410201FA2EF7AEB075C703F8EE99E96F671A09BC11FCBC8
Then only the hash text extends past the screen edge. This works for all screen sizes. Even on tablets, etc.. --Timeshifter (talk) 07:33, 6 January 2015 (GMT)
Optional ads and social enterprises
I like the idea of optional ads for some wikis. I would like ads on my wiki. That is how I can contribute. I don't have any money right now unfortunately. I found this:
I helped write up some ideas on optional ads in this Wikipedia essay:
I especially like the idea of semi-profit benefit corporations, and social enterprises. This would allow raising money in more ways. --Timeshifter (talk) 07:44, 6 January 2015 (GMT)