Looking at this makes me so tired.
Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars andâŠ.literally nothing changes. Thereâs no doubt in my mind theyâre pocketing most of this money lol
Thatâs whatâs so wild to me. Theyâve made exactly 0 changes other than adding the âExcludeâ tags and that def doesnât take 130k.
You know if any of you actually bothered to click the link itâll 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.Â
AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity youâd 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.Â
https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/11192
reminder that AO3Â
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 â 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 doesnât subject you to ads, honestly those are the only two points you need but the other ones are there to show how much theyâre doingÂ
yâall need to appreciate that â donations are completely optional and if you donât want to donate then donât, but spreading posts about how Archive doesnât do anything for anyone and doesnât do anything with all this money theyâre getting is completely unnecessary and outright false.
anyway, donate to Archive of Our Own
