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Today is the 1st of June, and the donation bar has hit record highs! It seems the question has been answered that you guys do love the site and want to see it thrive. :x264love: This has really been a heart warming display of support, and we are going to do everything we can to keep the site up and revive activity levels.

Things that have happened:
1 Year of Hosting! - Due to the amazing support of our userbase, both emotionally and financially, we were able to negotiate a year long hosting term paid upfront for a discount. Yep, thats right, we have the hosting secured until June 2016!!

Due to the above, we will be moving towards an annual donation drive model. The donation bar will still exist, but it will be an annual bar. Donations will still be welcome year round, but come May 2016, we will make sure the bar fills up.

New Blood - We have organized some new recruiting invite threads and hope to have some new blood flowing in soon. The long term answer here is going to be new, fresh faced youngsters boosting up the forum, irc, and torrent activity. And hopefully among those, some are interested in learning to encode and boost up the internal count as well.

Spring Cleaning - Dont be shocked by the drop in users! Its all dead weight. The inactivity pruning script here has been lenient. It was automated to clean up some slots when the user count got close to max, but otherwise leave people alone. It reduces need for re-enabling of inactives that got pruned, but still keeps some open slots for new users. Not all at once, but recently it was turned up to prune 50 users a day max to catch up with inactives. Also going to clean out some of the site collectors soon. here with no transfer.. ever? gtfo. All in All, it should drop to around 5000ish members.
These open slots hopefully to be filled in soon by the aforementioned recruiting push.

There are some more things coming, but we wanted to give you guys an update, and get some happier news up on the front page.