The Tip Jar Fund Drive is almost over... [View all]

Last edited Sun May 26, 2024, 10:43 AM - Edit history (1)

And it was a big success -- thank you to everyone who contributed!

May is always a tough month for us because April is a big month for expenses -- it's the month that we have to pay a bunch of annual upfront server costs, as well as the DU accountant, since it's tax time. So slotting an extra fund drive in at this time of year is a HUGE help, and we deeply appreciate the support you gave us this week.

We received a number of suggestions for new features in the feature request thread that I put up yesterday. There are some good ideas in there, so we'll be going over these to see which ones are feasible, and at some point in the next few months we'll do a feature update.

As promised, I would like to recognize the DU members that you gave kudos to this week. Since this is the first time we're doing this, there are still a few kinks to work out -- for example, next time we will probably restrict kudos to active DUers only (ie. people who have posted in the last year) since there were two DU members who received kudos -- bvar22 and beam me up scottie -- who I'll mention here, but who have not posted since 2016 and 2017 respectively.

If you're not on this list, don't worry -- the vast majority of DUers aren't -- and as far as I'm concerned, that's nothing to worry about, because to me you are all equally valuable members of the community. But I think it's nice to recognize the DUers who go above and beyond to make DU a great place to be, so without further ado, and in no particular order, here they are:

BumRushDaShow
malaise
Rhiannon12866
Omaha Steve
CaliforniaPeggy
debm55
niyad
Siwsan
MarineCombatEngineer
Cha
babylonsister
Judi Lynn
elleng
Nevilledog
Irish_Dem
catbyte
SalmonChantedEvening
LetMyPeopleVote
kpete
Aristus
DFW
demmiblue
NJCher
WhiskeyGrinder
KS Toronado
Duncanpup
sop
hermetic
greatauntoftriplets
MineralMan
TexasTowelie
kentuck
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
muriel_volestrangler
The Magistrate
brooklynite
bigtree
sheshe2
H2O Man
mopinko
RandySF
Uncle Joe
Kali
Scrivener7
progressoid
highplainsdem
Tommy Carcetti
MissMillie
Kingofalldems
JudyM
NanceGreggs
Floyd R. Turbo
PCIntern
MontanaMama
wnylib
Yonnie3
Cyrano
T_i_B
musette_sf
Sympthsical
tenderfoot
chillfactor
trusty elf
MOMFUDSKI
George McGovern
Nanjeanne
Mousetoescamper
Grumpy Old Guy
kozar
tornado34jh
maccafan
OhioChick

You may be interested to know that the DUers above have contributed a combined 4,566,388 posts in the time they have all been here

So with that said, I'd like to thank ALL DUers who come here every day and take part in the community, and I'd also like to personally thank everyone on MIRT (past, present, and future) and all the forum Hosts who volunteer to keep DU running smoothly. And finally I'd like to say thank you to the people who gave kudos to Elad and myself. I decided not put us on the list because we're the Admins, but I appreciate it.

The fund drive will continue to run until late tonight, but everything should be back to normal on Saturday morning. Thank you again for making this a great fund drive! Time to put Grovelbot back in his box for another few months.



EarlG, on behalf of Elad -- the DU Administrators