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OK, at this point I need to say a couple of things.

First - A BIG THANKS! to everyone who believed in ASV enough to make it happen. Your generosity will keep the site going for several years.

Second - because of that generosity, at this point we are no longer in need of donations and will not be for a couple of years. If you still want to donate, thats great and please feel free to do so. But at this point its not needed.

Third - At one point I had registered and was appoved for a Google Adsense account that I was going to use to keep ASV going. That is not needed now and we have decided to keep the site ad free. no ads, no popups none of that stuff.

Now what ASV really needs is.... articles for the front page (you have seen the new front page right?) Van of the Month is pretty much covered but I can only write so many articles and thats what we need to keep the content on the front page fresh and updated. SO if you want to donate, donate an article for the front page. :D

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Awesome! You be sure to let us know when there isnt enough to cover ok?
As for write ups ... let's do it people! :rolleyes:
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Mongke Khan says "this place is going to save me money in the long run, so I should invest in it!"

Thanks for the support! :guitar:


and we're still AD free and we still need articles for the front page...hint hint :poke:
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snapple paid it forward and sent a donation in the name of 365redux

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thanks to alanselo for his donation, welcom to the ASV family!
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How much of a donation would it take for this site to allow posting pictures like some other site I know?

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astroturf wrote:How much of a donation would it take for this site to allow posting pictures like some other site I know?

Thanks, Jim
Well, fact is we do allow posting pics, however as you know our attachment quota is maxed out and since we don't want to delete members pics in order to make room ( could you imagine the time involved contacting members to ask if it was o.k to delete their pics? lol ) we have suggested that members use one of the dozens of free photo-hosting sites available in cyberspace to link pics from. Why increase costs when there is a perfectly good work-around available to all for free? :cheers:

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Zam, This has always been a big sticking point for me.

I know it's easy, everybody is doing it...

Never the less, I will donate. I will be by the bank tomorrow, and donate shortly there after.

Love the site. Thanks for being here.

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I agree that hotlinking images here instead of hosting them on the site is easier for admins, cheaper etc.

I only want to present one caveat. Lets say I post some project photos from a photobucket account for example. Later I decide to move my photos to a different hosting site, say Flickr. Now I have to repost. There are other scenarios. We've all seen broken image links in forums before.

Then there's the other edge of the sword. I host photos of my van on ASV and post them, and maybe they include some people. Some years go by, and I'm no longer a member (for whatever reason). Now I don't want those photos posted anymore, and I can't remove them since my account is closed.

My point? It's good to have options. Storage space is cheap nowadays.
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well, this really is not the thread to have this converstaion, but the attachment quota has been increased.
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Thank You Sir...

Donation sent.

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Tap Tap Tap...

Is this thing on?

Did Y'All receive my donation?

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Yes, yes we did...I thought I updated this at the same time I changed your rank...

Sorry bout that.
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It's all good.

Glad youse Guys got it.

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justice wrote:well, this really is not the thread to have this converstaion, but the attachment quota has been increased.
So what is the max attachment size now?
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