On 4/23/07, daniwo59(a)aol.com <daniwo59(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 4/23/2007 12:54:50 AM Eastern
Daylight Time,
meta.sj(a)gmail.com writes:
The project as originally conceived is only becoming more scalably
supportable by donations alone.
This is quite an assertion. Do you have any evidence for this? Is this based
on an analysis of costs and growth? Or is this just an assumption?
What I mean is, the cost of hosting per page-view has dropped
tremendously, and we still have a ways to go there. Someone should
compare pageviews to ambient donations absent a sitenotice.
There are further magnitudes of scale to be realized, and a ways to go
before it is actually simple and natural for site visitors to realize
the site is supported by donations, or make a donation. For instance,
as has been raised dozens of times in the past, there should be some
highlighting of "Donate" / "faire un don" / "Dary pieniężne"
on the
default skin, so that people who would love to donate, but don't know
we have such a link, are able to support to the project.
SJ