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wifecore:

this is blowing up on twitter so i thought i might as well put it here too (i made this)

misomunch:

Me watching “Making a Murderer” again for the 3rd time:

queerlyalex:

nonegenderwithleftbees:

bihet-dragonize:

nutheadgee:

synclaires:

witchythirteen:

Looking at this makes me so tired.

Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars and….literally nothing changes. There’s no doubt in my mind they’re pocketing most of this money lol

Yep

That’s what’s so wild to me. They’ve made exactly 0 changes other than adding the ‘Exclude’ tags and that def doesn’t take 130k.

You know if any of you actually bothered to click the link it’ll 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. 

AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity you’d 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. 

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/11192

reminder that AO3 

• 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 – 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 doesn’t subject you to ads, honestly those are the only two points you need but the other ones are there to show how much they’re doing 
• y’all need to appreciate that – donations are completely optional and if you don’t want to donate then don’t, but spreading posts about how Archive doesn’t do anything for anyone and doesn’t do anything with all this money they’re getting is completely unnecessary and outright false.
• anyway, donate to Archive of Our Own

In this house we respect and donate to AO3.