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As many of you likely know, we have launched a subscription service, so our members can donate to help keep our forum sufficiently financed to continue.
However, the previous version that we launched via Ko-fi did not work out very well for us, as it seems like Paypal is not an available option for potential subscribers, and some payment cards were not accepted either.
As such, we have started a Patreon account instead, and would greatly appreciate help from our community and visitors who are willing to help us out.
To become an active supporter of our community, you should go to https://www.patreon.com/vsbattles and become a monthly member. After we have a sufficiently established presence at Patreon, we will also get the ability to accept less expensive yearly subscriptions.
To show our appreciation for the people with member accounts who help our community in this manner, they will receive an advertisement-free experience when browsing vsbattles.com as long as they continue to support us, and they will also receive personal blue "Supporter" badges below their usernames, similar to the ones for our staff members
In order to do so, at Patreon, please choose one of the monthly subscription/membership tiers (either 2 Euros for a "Supporter" badge or 5 Euros for a "Super Supporter" badge) and use the exact same username as you use in the VS Battles forum.
We will not receive any personal information as long as you use an anonymous email address as your contact information combined with the same username that you use here, and only see that along with your membership tier. If you already have a Patreon account with your regular email address or real name, the account in question can easily be updated to use anonymous alternatives before you become a supporter for us.
If Patreon itself (we have not added this feature) asks you if you want to provide your real name and home address to us (that happened to me once), simply opt out of that part.
If you want to support us above this to get us financially sustainable quicker, you are of course always welcome to make a larger donation, but be careful to not pay more money than you can afford.
For those who cannot support us financially, we of course appreciate if you accept our advertisements and contribute to the financing of our forum in that way instead.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Also, as information for those of you who are already supporting us via Ko-fi, please cancel your subscriptions there and sign up to Patreon instead. It will greatly simplify keeping track for us, as all of the automatic payments happen the first day of every month.
Those who have signed up for year-long memberships will obviously keep them until they run out, and can sign up to Patreon afterwards.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
I have recently been told that we currently only receive roughly 21 Euros per month in Patreon donations, and that, despite our advertisements, with all of our running costs for this forum combined, we need roughly 250 Euros per month for this forum to become financially secure, so it would be really great if at least a few dozen of our up to 236,000 monthly forum visitors, who appreciate our extreme efforts to produce as high-quality content as we are able, would be willing and able to become supporters for us. Extremely big thanks for any help in this regard.
As many of you likely know, we have launched a subscription service, so our members can donate to help keep our forum sufficiently financed to continue.
However, the previous version that we launched via Ko-fi did not work out very well for us, as it seems like Paypal is not an available option for potential subscribers, and some payment cards were not accepted either.
As such, we have started a Patreon account instead, and would greatly appreciate help from our community and visitors who are willing to help us out.
To become an active supporter of our community, you should go to https://www.patreon.com/vsbattles and become a monthly member. After we have a sufficiently established presence at Patreon, we will also get the ability to accept less expensive yearly subscriptions.
To show our appreciation for the people with member accounts who help our community in this manner, they will receive an advertisement-free experience when browsing vsbattles.com as long as they continue to support us, and they will also receive personal blue "Supporter" badges below their usernames, similar to the ones for our staff members
In order to do so, at Patreon, please choose one of the monthly subscription/membership tiers (either 2 Euros for a "Supporter" badge or 5 Euros for a "Super Supporter" badge) and use the exact same username as you use in the VS Battles forum.
We will not receive any personal information as long as you use an anonymous email address as your contact information combined with the same username that you use here, and only see that along with your membership tier. If you already have a Patreon account with your regular email address or real name, the account in question can easily be updated to use anonymous alternatives before you become a supporter for us.
If Patreon itself (we have not added this feature) asks you if you want to provide your real name and home address to us (that happened to me once), simply opt out of that part.
If you want to support us above this to get us financially sustainable quicker, you are of course always welcome to make a larger donation, but be careful to not pay more money than you can afford.
For those who cannot support us financially, we of course appreciate if you accept our advertisements and contribute to the financing of our forum in that way instead.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Also, as information for those of you who are already supporting us via Ko-fi, please cancel your subscriptions there and sign up to Patreon instead. It will greatly simplify keeping track for us, as all of the automatic payments happen the first day of every month.
Those who have signed up for year-long memberships will obviously keep them until they run out, and can sign up to Patreon afterwards.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
I have recently been told that we currently only receive roughly 21 Euros per month in Patreon donations, and that, despite our advertisements, with all of our running costs for this forum combined, we need roughly 250 Euros per month for this forum to become financially secure, so it would be really great if at least a few dozen of our up to 236,000 monthly forum visitors, who appreciate our extreme efforts to produce as high-quality content as we are able, would be willing and able to become supporters for us. Extremely big thanks for any help in this regard.
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