Funding FearlessRevolution

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Just a small announcement to update you guys on few changes to FRF.

The recent round of getting donations didn’t really work out. Unfortunately we didn’t even get half the donations that we used to get on old Patreon that was removed. I am still paying the bulk of costs alone, have been for the last year since our old Patreon was removed so I just decided to stop asking for donations and end Patreon.

I want to say thank you to those that donated not just recently when I asked but those who have helped in the past. When I started this site, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I could run a site like FRF on donations for 6 years!. Heck, I had no idea FRF would receive so much love and become a daily part of our lives. Thank you for the help when FRF needed it the most.

I had received offers in past but donations helped then. Things change, and 7 years later I can’t still be stuck thinking about funds for FRF survival or be left with no options when I lose my job again or something unforeseen happens.

You can now sponsor/advertise on FRF, the spots available are above and below post. Similar to how other sites have it (eg nexus, YouTubers etc). You can PM me for rates and more details. If it’s a product you think I would be interested in, PM me as well (NordVPN sponsor us pls ). Nothing aggressive or annoying, I don’t want to degrade the quality of user experience for FRF users so no flashy gifs.

If there’s multiple sponsors, yours will be rotated based on the frequency in a month you pay for. We can work out the details in a PM.

That’s pretty much it. Well, I do have some ideas to improve the forum but every time I make announcements like these and let my ideas public, they get copied at the place I hate called westeal, they have the funds, I have none. Some things don’t change and Frank loves to steal forever and ever so yeah in a future post when those ideas actually happen.

I would like to use this opportunity to remind you please remove data dissect structure from your tables and reduce table sizes. The current SSD we have is 78% full, those structures really bloat table size.

Oh and we have Discord just for fun. Link in my signature.

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[Paul44]

^ some suggestions:
a. request all tables to be rar-ed/compressed: in my case, it usually reduces payload to about 1/3~1/4 of its original size
(and I am using a form in most of my tables...)
b. budget forcast: what budget is expected/needed this/next year; and every quarter report on progress status
c. place a sticky in [Tables] section: most visitors only "see" thàt view... but then again, most of them are less prone to sponsor/donate
d. really easy way(s) to donate money, with minimum tracing. Eg: I would not transfer money using my bank/credit card here; not because of FRF but simply because I do not want to link my account_info to my "real" identity
e. offer a (1-time) registration fee: normal visitors just download/leave. Paying users have access to pm/etc...
Option: particular titles (hmm: eg tablemakers ) either get refunded, or something... (I do not mean being paid; just refund of the initial/recurring registration fee)

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Hey

A) I like CT form just for the convenience of less clicks but this is definitely in consideration.

B) Anonymity = Security. This will betray that

C) Correct, I don’t expect to gain any sponsors from this topic bro. This is just for public information letting everyone know about change of policy at FRF. Whoever wishes to advertise on FRF have always just PMed/emailed me asking information eg some cdkey site tried really hard to sway me couple years ago. It would be a bonus if I gain some sponsors from this topic hehe

D) I have never directly handled payments, and Patreon doesn’t disclose this info. PayPal shows name but that’s it. I know what you mean though, which is why I have always used outside services and never dealt with any user info directly.

E) There are many less invasive variation of these but I don’t feel comfortable with monetisation of FRF. It took 7 years to just start accepting sponsors so you can get an idea how much I dread it. But definitely a good last resort idea. It would cut down on PM spam, always some report about someone spamming the members here.


Thanks for taking the time to write these suggestions, gave me some ideas. I thought everyone would read this topic, go “hmm ok” and move on