There are many ways to accept anonymous donations these days, so it’s hard not to see the lack of that option as a deliberate choice by @canbol -though the exact reason remains unclear. It’s easy to speculate that it may be about maintaining control over the documents. -Holding them hostage.
If that’s the case, it’s unfortunate, because it risks undermining the very purpose of the project. People will naturally seek alternatives. In my view, none match what hifiengine offers, but at the end of the day, the documents will still be downloaded.
My account was banned a couple of years ago from "inactivity", and after a few unsuccessful attempts to contact anyone from the site, I eventually gave up and started relying on Google instead. So far, there hasn’t been anything I needed that I wasn’t able to find elsewhere.
The only real way forward for hifiengine is through transparency and genuine engagement with the community that helped build the library in the first place. There’s a strong willingness among users to help preserve the site, but that requires openness and a collaborative mindset -not vague statements about it “just being a hobby” or suggestions that donations aren’t possible when, realistically, they are.
If that’s not feasible, then maybe it’s time to hand the project over to someone who has the resources and motivation to keep it alive.
Or, maybe the plan is to keep playing hard to get and hold the manuals hostage -in that case we should start a GoFundMe for a hostage negotiator?
If that’s the case, it’s unfortunate, because it risks undermining the very purpose of the project. People will naturally seek alternatives. In my view, none match what hifiengine offers, but at the end of the day, the documents will still be downloaded.
My account was banned a couple of years ago from "inactivity", and after a few unsuccessful attempts to contact anyone from the site, I eventually gave up and started relying on Google instead. So far, there hasn’t been anything I needed that I wasn’t able to find elsewhere.
The only real way forward for hifiengine is through transparency and genuine engagement with the community that helped build the library in the first place. There’s a strong willingness among users to help preserve the site, but that requires openness and a collaborative mindset -not vague statements about it “just being a hobby” or suggestions that donations aren’t possible when, realistically, they are.
If that’s not feasible, then maybe it’s time to hand the project over to someone who has the resources and motivation to keep it alive.
Or, maybe the plan is to keep playing hard to get and hold the manuals hostage -in that case we should start a GoFundMe for a hostage negotiator?
All the MODS with all these resources and industry connections around the globe located here, on this site. Hmm...
DIY AUDIO . COM should let go of HiFi Engine and move forward with greater aspirations and more collective input.
You people sound like a bunch of strung out junkies.
Go to rehab and fix yourselves.
With the collective effort and spirit of THIS forum, in a few years you will hold an international library far greater, if you really want it...
DIY AUDIO . COM should let go of HiFi Engine and move forward with greater aspirations and more collective input.
You people sound like a bunch of strung out junkies.
Go to rehab and fix yourselves.
With the collective effort and spirit of THIS forum, in a few years you will hold an international library far greater, if you really want it...
All the Mod's as you put it give their time freely to maintain and run diyAudio.com and the site has no connection to HiFiEngine, a site which is seen as a valuable resource for many on here in maintaining and repairing equipment. There is nothing for diyAudio to let go of.
I'm a member of a forum to do with the late great Siegfried Linkwitz's loudspeaker designs https://oplug-support.org/ . Early this week the site started producing popup adverts, to significant protest from full members.
The list owner promptly removed them, but explained that there was a fall off of subscriptions recently. A bunch of people, me included, coughed up some money. The site has a link for subscriptions that points to Paypal.
Also https://www.head-case.org/ , of which I'm also a forum member, has a voluntary annual whip round to keep the servers running and the list maintained. Again Paypal.
These sites are in the US, so the payment by default is in US dollars (I'm in the UK).
So whatever Canbol's misgivings are regarding Paypal, other free service sites keep going with voluntary contributions, sent from international contributors using Paypal.
The list owner promptly removed them, but explained that there was a fall off of subscriptions recently. A bunch of people, me included, coughed up some money. The site has a link for subscriptions that points to Paypal.
Also https://www.head-case.org/ , of which I'm also a forum member, has a voluntary annual whip round to keep the servers running and the list maintained. Again Paypal.
These sites are in the US, so the payment by default is in US dollars (I'm in the UK).
So whatever Canbol's misgivings are regarding Paypal, other free service sites keep going with voluntary contributions, sent from international contributors using Paypal.