A suggestion

A suggestion

Posted Aug 1, 2002 18:26 UTC (Thu) by cdurst (guest, #2953)
Parent article: Is it really The End?

I have always loved LWN and read it religiously. I donated $100 as soon as I read that LWN was in danger of stopping. (I don't really care whether that gets applied toward my subscription, I considered it a payment I owed for the last several years.)

My Suggestion:
You could put something like a "pledge thermomitor" in the upper left corner of your pages that indicates whether you're operating in the green or the red. When it drops down into the red (and perhaps begins flashing), it would encourage more people to click it and donate.

Alternatively, I suppose you could borrow another idea from public broadcasting and occasionally put a lot of annoying "pledge break" pages in your server that would be turned off for anyone who subscribed/donated.

Anyway, I hope you folks can keep publishing LWN for a long time to come.
Good luck!

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