Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 292 blocks solved!
Unfortunately, there are costs to support this small project and i cannot afford, i am doing all i can to sustain but soon, invoice will pop out, if you are willing to support any sum will cover, just let me know in private.
It's not likely anyone would disagree that there are costs involved to support this small project. However, it is likely that any heartburn is due to the abrupt change and without prior notice, or even a lead-in attempt at securing funding for the cause. Even Wikipedia has survived for eons on temporary and occasional donation banners which obviously work, or at least help. And as much as I loath click ads, just the threat to use them could have been an option or motivator to help acquire contributional support and keep the site clean. These are just my opinions, of course, and I still wish you the very best of luck.
Exactly this.
If there had been some notificaiton that you needed assistance with funding the project and an explanation of the costs you may have found people more accepting of it.
I dont know what your ISP charges for running a web-site, but in my experience its not a massive expense even when pushing over 30GBytes of data every month, I cant imagine you're anywhere near that kind of data requirement.
Given that there are 1000's of users I don't think it warrants the equivalent of $12.00 each. I can't imagine for one second it costs >$12,000 to run a site like that every year. That just makes it look like profiteering
Naturally I'm dissapointed, it was a really good idea that added something cool and nice features to solo.ckpool
Yep, imagine that $12k
actually server was/is monitoring 2,160 users, users that signed up for this.