Thanks so much for your subscription! Yes, I lowered the price from $10 to $5 just hours ago, hehe. However, for those people who paid $10, the length of their subscription was extended, so no one lost out

Just my $0.02 worth to the conversation... I know this might sound arrogant, but I feel that providing quality content through good posts is my contribution to a forum. I don't mind ads, in fact, I vigorously support them, as long as they are professional and don't get in the way. The Google Ads are a good example of this. Plus, those ads are targeted to the content, so they actually might be for a product/service a user would want to buy.

So rather than make your regular users (who are your content providers) pay, make advertisers pay. I also have no shame in asking people to click ads, both on the forum and on my personal site. See my sig!!

I'd donate if there were but a way that doesn't require PP (or IMOs which are a ripoff and hard to get anyway here).

I will donate as soon as I get a job, seeing how i spend most of my time here asking questions, reading old threads for more info(which really helps), and basically posting stupid crap in geeks lounge, as soon as i get a job Dani, which hopefully be very soon

Thanks for all your support, everyone. However, I think some of you may have misunderstood me. I have absolutely, postively, no plans on making members pay for access / use of DaniWeb. I am simply suggesting a subscription payment sort of like a donation for some extra features (such as ad-free).

$5 is too much b coz in rupees that comes to around 250. Its not something my parents would give me

You are not being forced to buy a subscription! We really appreciate any sort of support to the site but at the same time, we also want to make it a place which is enjoyable by everyone and don't want anyone to feel excluded!

Running this site costs a lot of money and it is partially supported by the ads that you are seeing. The cost of $5 is pretty fair in my opinion.

$5 is fair but access to ad-free would be a real incentive. Please add credit card payment!

Opinion: Compulsory payment not advisable. Ad-free would be a good incentive. $5 per month is reasonable. Credit card would help get subscriptions.

Sounds like a great idea to me too. I would help, but I haven't been active around here much and need to get back into the swing. Number one thing to do is for me to find me freelancing work and then I may buy a subscription, but I like the ad-free idea though.