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duane I tried to get official Godot help when I took over the forums a couple years ago, but was told there was not interest. I consider it my donation to Godot 🙂

(And we have an awesome community here that I want to help support 🙂)

Thankfully though, it is not too expensive compared to what I am paying to host my personal website. The plan I am using technically has “unlimited” bandwidth and hosting storage, but I don’t want to test what the limits of that are, as I am extremely doubtful it is truly unlimited. Self moderation should help keep the “unlimited” mostly there.
(And I can fiddle with the Regex if zips become an issue)

    duane While it's true that the origins of this forum is the forum that was originally established as part of godotengine.org it was not just discontinued by the site maintainers because it was too heavy for their hosting solution but also because they didn't have the time nor the resources to properly manage it.

    Thankfully with enough begging and prodding select members of the community were trusted with a backup of the forums to bring it back online as a community effort. I.e. it's completely separate from the engine project. The donations on that end go entirely towards engine development. Website and docs are hosted for free afaik by the Software Freedom Conservancy, and it's their server infra that was wholly unsuited to hosting forums, btw.

    @TwistedTwigleg could perhaps set up a ko-fi.com account or some such in support of the forum hosting fees if there's enough interest from the community though, I suppose. But I suspect that it's more effort than worth unless there's enough of those interested in it.

      cybereality ko-fi would be good for this type of thing.

      Yeah, especially since they don't take a cut from donations. Or so they claim anyways. Never used it before myself.

        For now I don’t mind footing the bill but should it get too costly or something, then I may look into something like ko-fi 👍

          TwistedTwigleg I may look into something like ko-fi

          Oh, while we're on the subject, I'll risk repeating my question:

          What is the fundamental difference between "Buy Me a Coffee" and "Ko-fi"?

          And what other fundraising sites are there? I'm mainly interested in direct transfers to a card without the murky intermediaries like PayPal.

            You cannot really transfer money without an intermediary.

              cybereality Can there be different rules? We can transfer money by card details and phone number.

                These would be handled as international transactions, it's probably a safe bet that if it's not using paypal it's likely using Swift or equivalent.

                  Financial transactions are complex and full of risks. It's best to use a professional service provider and not try to do it yourself.

                    DaveTheCoder Professional service providers no longer operate in our country.

                    Does shopping in shops also require the help of professionals?

                    Megalomaniak using Swift or equivalent.

                    Swift is much more humane.

                          Tomcat Does shopping in shops also require the help of professionals?

                          Are you paying in cash? If not then yeah, a professional service of some kind is likely involved.

                              Megalomaniak Are you paying in cash? If not then yeah, a professional service of some kind is likely involved.

                              Which one? I pay by bank card the vast majority of the time. I used to pay by bank card for a rather large purchase (within the country) and all that was required was the number of that card on my card bank's website.

                              Don't banks have a direct communication?

                                  Tomcat Don't banks have a direct communication?

                                  You mean bank to bank wire transfers? Yeah that's a thing. Goes through Swift if available or via fax if not. If all else fails the last fall back is telegram, no not that new thing, the og telegram/telegraphy. But that's not what happens when a card is used at the register in a shop. Thats usually a visa or mastercard service. Which works usually on top of Swift as well.

                                  Anyways, this is too much off topic for here.

                                    10 days later

                                    I like the looks of this. (First time I'm here since this forum update.)

                                    The only thing I really don't like is this infinite-scrolling thing, which for some very odd reason gained extreme popularity over the years (as did many horrible web design practices). It's not infinite, ofc, but it feels never ending. I'd much rather have a list of pages at the bottom. It makes it possible to follow a big thread as you have time, and it gives you an immediate view of how big it is and how far you are in it.

                                    It's also bad for looking at the posts that were made before. You have to click "load more". I found myself many times in the past looking through older posts to see if I could help anyone that hadn't been helped (I don't come here often, but when I do I tend to look around), but with this system, if I want to get back to where I was the day before, I'll have click "load more" some 10 times or more... It's prohibitively annoying to go back too far.

                                    I don't know... I don't want to sound like nagging or whatever, but it's just my opinion about this feature. 🙂

                                    EDIT: I hadn't noticed before writing the post that there is a post count on the side, as you scroll. That makes it not as bad, I guess.

                                    8 days later

                                    Tomcat Is it possible to resize an image in a post?

                                    I don't think so, but what is wrong with the size?

                                        Just upload it at the correct size (e.g. resize it in GIMP first).

                                          On a related subject, I just tried to delete an image that I had attached to a post, since the image was no longer needed to understand the post. I was able to remove the image from the post, and hide it in "My Media" in my profile, but I don't know if the file was deleted from the server.
                                          Here's the post: https://godotforums.org/d/30780-tag-suggestions/28