Genius!

Yeah, I think you are right Faith. I think the time has come indeed.
:-)

I have said the exact same thing before, would gladly jam $100 down that donation hole if it meant more site stability. Let's do it! ^___^

I think it's a good idea myself. This website lets us give back a LOT; so it shouldn't be too much of a worry to kick in a few bucks to keep this place running smoothly!

Or an actual SG Premium :P

Maybe a $5 monthly fee for some cool perks/bonuses.

Edit: Not gonna reply to all of you below. By perks I mean cosmetic perks. Maybe a different profile, extra giveaway slots, a star beside your name in the forums, etc. Nothing that would break the site.

Good idea! I wonder, though, how much the ads on the site make, what with +/- 50 page views a second. How much is being made on them, and how much more would be needed to get a fatter pipe / better DB design / whatever is needed to make things run better? I'd need to know that before I considered a donation / the height thereof.

I'm all for it.

The first Suggestion on these forums that doesn't have a negative side. I LIKE IT!

I'm Totally agree :)

Don't think throwing money at it will solve it tho. Not like it is a traffic problem all the time...

Good idea.

Sounds like a plan.

just what I was thinking yesterday.. great idea.

good idea.

nice idea!

i think lots of people have suggested this, and i dont know why its been denied previously.

its a good idea, however i think they want to keep this site completely independent from cash donations (dealing with 2 people who give and receive the games willingly through a set of rules governed by this website with the gift never actually passing physically or digitally through SteamGifts is one thing, however it becomes completely different when something that is directly entering the system gets involved.)

Beyond that the money itself would not change the downtime... a majority of the time its due to relocation of server, recovering corrupt data (data corruption would still occur), DDOSing the server on a mass scale (which upgrading the servers might keep it up for an extra 2 or 3 minutes before it crashes).

I suggested this long ago.. they said No, but I agree

I doubt cg somehow is ignorant of Paypal's existence. If he hasn't added an option to donate, then it's because he doesn't want to.

Not knowing much or anything about him, I can't rule out that he will change his mind at some point, but suggesting this over and over again, hasn't been working very well so far.

How much do you guys think it takes to run this site? And how much can cg earn off ad revenue? He must be monetizing this somehow - I dont think too many people are interested in spending thousands a month just to keep a site up.

From my perspective of a complete outsider, it looks like this website (and steamtrades) were well designed and realized, but they're stuck in version 1.0. For one reason or the other, bug fixes and almost-obvious improvements are not performed. And the way I see it, the replies-to-my-replies bug on steamtrades is a breaking one, considering the nature of the site. On the other hand, improvements on steamgifts are implemented client-side through SG+, which is obviously not an optimal solution.

If money is the issue, donations would certainly help, but it seems pretty clear that they've been considered and decided against.

That's a great idea; this should definetely be implemented.

The site has downtimes because it has MySQL behind it. That is all.