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alwaysunnyonmtv

Looking at this makes me so tired.

Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars and….literally nothing changes. There’s no doubt in my mind they’re pocketing most of this money lol

Yep

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bihet-dragonize

That’s what’s so wild to me. They’ve made exactly 0 changes other than adding the ‘Exclude’ tags and that def doesn’t take 130k.

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nonegenderwithleftbees

You know if any of you actually bothered to click the link it’ll take you to their budget update and break down exactly what the spend the money on, over 70% of which is spent on server expenses, monitoring tools and system licences.

They also spent a good amount of the rest of the 30% budget on significant server overhaul costs. 

AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity you’d have to not bother reading the very open budget plan they have, but to then bitch and whine about people donating to keep the site running is wild. 

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/11192

reminder that AO3 

  • hosts millions and millions of fanfiction at no cost to site users
  • hosts millions and millions user accounts at no cost to site users
  • is an extremely high traffic site that rarely, if ever, experiences crashes
  • is an extremely high traffic site that could profit immensely off ads, but keeps the entire site free of ads
  • maintains a consistent and elaborate tagging system that allows users easy navigation through fanworks
  • maintains a simple layout structure so the entire site is easy to read, easy to navigate, and easy to understand making it highly accessible to users – especially disabled users
  • maintains and updates the budget for users to know exactly where their donations are going to be used in the future and have been used in the past
  • works with the legal aspects of fanworks in order to keep their site and their users completely legal, and therefore not at risk of being shut down, or sued, or manipulated by large media/companies
  • works with users when it comes to decision making, includes members in voting processes, etc.
  • literally hosts millions of fanfiction at no cost whatsoever and doesn’t subject you to ads, honestly those are the only two points you need but the other ones are there to show how much they’re doing 
  • y’all need to appreciate that – donations are completely optional and if you don’t want to donate then don’t, but spreading posts about how Archive doesn’t do anything for anyone and doesn’t do anything with all this money they’re getting is completely unnecessary and outright false.
  • anyway, donate to Archive of Our Own
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brolinskeep

   2018-07-20

1.569.000 users

by asking for 130k dollar 2-3 times a year, that means they ask each account holding user for about 0,08 dollar 2-3 times a year -> 0,25 dollar altogether. this doesn’t even factor in the millions of users who don’t have an account but visit ao3, cos if they pitch in as well, it’ll be even less for everyone who enjoys the access ao3 provides to 4.000.000 fanworks and to create more every day!

queerlyalex above has already listed all or most of the terrific services ao3 provides, but right now the legal advocacy efforts they maintain cannot be emphasized enough: european copyright reform article 13 anyone? same for canada and australia? or fighting for net neutrality since 2014?

so yeah you fucking bet i send them at least 50bucks or more a year for all of that. and if out of the 130k they use my 50 bucks to buy themselves some coffee for all the work hours they dedicate to ao3 running as smoothly as it does, keeping it free of harassment and adds without selling my data for it, and fighting for fanworks to remain accessible for everyone now and in future, then be my guest!

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drgaellon

AO3 is entirely volunteer-run. Every dollar they collect goes to a) expenses of operation or b) advocacy. I’ve contributed at various levels over the years as my finances have waxed and waned, but I’ve never been less than a $10/year voting member. This year, I’m fortunate enough to be able to be a $10/MONTH contributor.

I am UTTERLY FLABBERGASTED that anyone thinks that running a site hosting millions of fanworks, transferring literally BILLIONS of bytes of data for millions of users could be done for as little as $130K/year. The sense of entitlement is staggering.

No changes? Well, all their code is written by volunteers. Want change to happen faster? Volunteer to join the coding team.

Basically - put up (money or time) or shut up.

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rainewynd

Speaking as a fannish dinosaur who lived through the days when fanfic was not this centralized - please take a moment to thank the fans (mostly women) who dreamed up AO3 and to the voluDonations make a difference.nteers who keep it running.

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3fluffies

A. FUCKING. MEN!  

And to the ignorant morons spouting bullshit accusations without even a fraction of a fact in their brains - sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up and learn the fuck to read and try EDUCATING YOURSELVES before trying to destroy the only archive built exclusively by fans for fans.  You’re not edgy or cool with your “hot take” on Archive of Our Own - you’re just smearing your stupidity around for all to see.

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No one:
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