Archive for November, 2009

Tweekly.fm – Donation Drive

Monday, November 16th, 2009

In the past year, Tweekly.fm has grown tremendously and for a full-time student like me, I don’t have the money and time to keep Tweekly.fm alive. I have a long holiday ahead of me in which I will revamp, redesign en redevelop Tweekly.fm, but in order to sustain its growth, I need to get it onto a dedicated server.

I don’t have the funds and the banner on top here will barely cover the costs of hosting a dedicated server.

In the past week I’ve received generous donations, thank you very much! I don’t want to resort to having sign-ups be donationware, so I ask you, Tweekly.fm user, please donate any amount. I plan to attain only $1000. If only a quarter of you pay $1 it will be more than enough!

All the money will go towards paying the hosting in the upcoming year.

As a reward the person who donated the most will receive a permanent thank-you on the frontpage of the new Tweekly.fm.

Click here to go to the donation page.

Tweekly.fm: Going donationware

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Hello.

Given the incredible growth of Tweekly.fm, it has really been struggling under its current hosting. From this coming Wednesday, you will only be able to sign up with Tweekly.fm if you make a donation.

This is only temporary. As a full-time student (sitting with my textbook beside my laptop: writing exams next week), I just don’t have the time to research servers, optimise the code and work on Tweekly.fm.

When the holidays arrive (sweet glorious 2 months of freedom), I will do everything in my power to upgrade the Tweekly.fm experience, move onto new servers, etc.

SHORT FAQ:

1) Service will continue as usual. Old users won’t have to do anything. Just sit back as usual and enjoy the tweets roll by.

2) Any new users from Wednesday will have to pay a donation to sign up until Tweekly.fm can handle the growth.

3) This is only temporary. A new server will most likely appear in the beginning of December, when I will switch it back to its current state.

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This coming wednesday, Tweekly.fm will probably hit 15 000 users. So, this is just another BIG thank you to all you music lovers! If you are current user, donations are also welcome! Just go to Tweekly.fm (it is on the front page).

I will keep you posted.

Keep listening.