As if things were not confusing already, we're preparing some changes.
You came to see this message by clickng on The GIMP Forum gate, you probably noticed that a couple of the gates that were in the main page are here now.
ALL the gates will be inside The GIMP Forum gate beginning sometime soon.
Why? You ask?
Because the front page will carry one or two gates to sponsors of this site.
We need to upgrade to a much larger hosting plan, which means we'll pay a lot more, maybe three to four times more, every month.
The reason we need to upgrade is because we want to put back all the files that are currently deleted and we need a lot more room for the amazing number of pictures you all are posting.
This site is becoming THE ONE site where you can see all the GIMP material that exists in the universe and some more.
After a discussion with Ralphus we decided that we don't want to charge a fee to the members of the forum. We want it to be free, as it is right now, so, the best way to pay the bills is to have sponsors. We already have one sponsor, us, Red Feline Pictures, we're paying the bills now and we will continue to do so, and you can help by watching our movies.
We had an IndieGoGO campaign to raise funds for a new film, Seditiosa, which raised over 10,000. We're about to get at least another 10 grand from contributors, directly to our account, and we initially got 3,000. So the total amount of money we will have for the film is almost what our goal was, 25,000.
I'm mentioning this because as we went over the records of the contributions to our campaign and where they came from, we were very sad to see that not ONE penny came from here. Sad. Maybe some members here are members of the CruxForum, from where a lot of the contributions came, so it would be unfair to say that no one here contributed to the campaign. But there are no registered contributions from the links here.
What I'm saying is that our Sponsorship plan might work, or it might not. Time will tell. If it does, then we will have this site running smoothly for years to come, if it doesn't, then we will have to start eliminating files on a monthly basis.
We're looking into other alternatives as well, but right now the sponsorship idea is the easiest one.
Another idea is to back The GIMP Forum with a voluntary fee of 3 or 5 per month through our Patreon Site. We could set up a category of GIMP supporter for 3 bucks a month and see what happens. That's just an idea. There would be some special goodies there. But we'll see.
That's it. We're open to suggestions.
