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Inkbunny needs your help!

Hi everyone

We're due to pay the hosting fees for the next quarter. We have to find $600US by the end of the month, which is in just 6 days! As you may know, we no longer make money from fees through the sales system (and we won't, even when it comes back online).

I'm asking for help semi-privately, rather than spamming the whole membership base for now. I think we can easily raise enough to keep IB going just among the close supporters and regular users.

Really $600 is very little to find every 3 months if a few people chip in!

If you can help with the payments for this next quarter please contact me via PM or email starling@inkbunny.net before the end of the month. We accept a variety of payment methods including direct bank transfers/deposits in the US (so you can now donate to us via your US Bank's Internet banking site!).

If you have friends that you know believe in what we are doing and are site supporters, please make sure they have seen this message too!

Even though we've jumped in site traffic by about 800% in the last 4 months, it looks like our current server and codebase will handle the load for double that amount again. So we will hopefully be able to keep costs low for a long time yet.

Thanks very much

Starling
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Added: 13 years, 2 months ago
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cursedscythe
13 years, 2 months ago
I would help if I could, but I'm broke myself x.x

I'll spread the word.
sangaire
13 years, 2 months ago
try selling a little bit of ad space
sangaire
13 years, 2 months ago
but other then that i could thrw some cash out i guess next paycheck
GreenReaper
13 years, 2 months ago
It's not allowed unless the ToS changes:
" Inkbunny does not make money off paid advertising or membership fees.
Shokuji
13 years, 2 months ago
You know I'd help if I could. Sucks being unemployed. =/ I'll re-post this in case people missed it. Let me know if there's anything else I can do.

( Next time start fundraising earlier! ^_^; )
Shokuji
13 years, 2 months ago
Also, no more Paypal for IB? =O
Shokuji
13 years, 2 months ago
https://inkbunny.net/journalview.php?id=6119

Will you be one of the rare 2% willing to donate a single dollar? =O

(And yes I can donate $1 even though I'm unemployed :p)
Arcturus
13 years, 2 months ago
I'll see if we can spare any more, Starpuppies
Kinshuka
13 years, 2 months ago
I thought IB had its own donation thing? Or atleast a paypal! D: I'd donate something if I could just send it to a Paypal! X3
saintajax33RENAMED
13 years, 2 months ago
Hey i dont have any money to spare, but i could donate a story or two, to give people an incentive to donate.

I could do something based off how much the top person(s) donates.
TwoTails
13 years, 2 months ago
I'll try to send something, but seriously scrapping a few more bucks out of my shot budget isn't easy >_<

But for later, people aren't 100% against ads, people just generally despise disgusting or annoying(pagehog or loud) or flickery or intrusive ones.
Just a few random gif ad banners or flash ads on like the front page and general art browser is ok. (as long as the sources are known and trusted), and aren't on user pages.
Furry pay sites, convention ads, commissioner ads, indie furry toy makers (if trusted), etc.
Though that might only help by about 100 a month, unless you can find bigger stores willing to sell to fetish sites that aren't those annoying ads type.
SpearWolf
13 years, 2 months ago
I'm sorry.
FlareKitsu
13 years, 2 months ago
And we can thank Insane Kanagroo for this.

:/
BastionShadowpaw
13 years, 2 months ago
will spread the word.. i am actually in a really delicate monetary situation X3
jurann
13 years, 2 months ago
I'll be happy to contribute, I sent you an e-mail. =)

On a side note, ads aren't really making FurBuy much money despite being so highly trafficked. In fact, the one or two folks per month who DO advertise with us enjoy a MASSIVE amount of views and click-throughs! FA is making a significant amount of income through their banners, but that shouldn't be a surprise really. =/
GreenReaper
13 years, 1 month ago
Unfortunately the ads you get reflect your target market - and in my experience, few people are willing to pay to get furries to go to their site. Google appears to have no furry ad inventory at all. (Maybe I should change that, since they just gave me a $100 AdWords coupon . . .)
jurann
13 years, 1 month ago
And yet, FA's queue for ad banners is ALWAYS full. =P They're running a ridiculous amount of ad banners, and they charge a lot more for them than any other furry site to boot. So it's not that there aren't advertisers, it's that the only site people think they'll get any bang for their buck from is FA. =P Which is a shame, FurBuy's getting about 30,000 homepage banner impressions per month and almost 60,000 auction banner impressions per month. With a good click-through rate, after all we only accept on-theme banners.
LupineAssassin
13 years, 2 months ago
Sent you a PM, Starling. :)
MichaelJBear
13 years, 2 months ago
I'm spreading the word
Kaheiyattsu
13 years, 1 month ago
Well I spread the news around in my little cub club hope that helps at all.
ShanetheFreestyler
13 years, 1 month ago
I'll help spread the word! =3
DemiDeer
13 years, 1 month ago
I will spread the word as best as far as I can ^w^
mudpaws
13 years, 1 month ago
;_;  i hate being so sick i would love very much to give  IB  a lot of money but i have no $ , but  if i ever do get some money i will gladly  give it to this site ...
Sinaqui
13 years, 1 month ago
I think I can help out, give me a moment to send a PM.
KushHeadFievel
13 years, 1 month ago
(They Flesh, Inside Out.) Short Story Book.
(Agradoor; The Beginning? )
I'll make a note or two to myself, donate to my favorite Furry site on the web.
Short Story Book, should be self published by Saturday, but timing stinks.
Since Agradoor is more of a novel, maybe it might make more. The unfortunate thing there is, I want to pay for illustrations for Agradoor, from (Hopeful) profits from the short story book.
NO. I do not wish to go against the (TOS). I'd rather see IB stay (Add Free).

;(( But unfortunately, even if I do make a decent amount, it won't be on time for this quarter.


Huggles.


Fieve.. ;-)  :-)
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