We need a save the chatapp telethon, to help fund an update to windows 10 and beyond... js. It's the season of firstfruit since Yom Kippur is approaching anyway so... or we'll have to start excepting sponsors... and the constant adds that go with that, ugh, a headache emoji would be useful then
but golly, with over 70k members, and everyone giving just $25, we could collect almost 2 million to getr done!
Ads, not adds, were already tried and had to be finished as there was no way to control what ads popped up, thus offensive ads were showing. That's why there are no ads now.
Accepting, not excepting, sponsors is just another way of saying ads. Can't imagine anyone willing to spend enough money to keep the chats up just to advertise. In fact various options were tried and/or considered and the current donation system seemed most feasible.
70,000 members, most of which are inactive, thus not going to be donating.
Not to mention not everyone uses the chat app, therefore they're likely not too concerned with saving it. Take away those that maybe can't afford $25, put all the above mentioned together and that 2 million shrinks real fast.
2 million dollars for one person to update a chat app that already exists? That seems excessive anyways.
It's not even been stated that the issue is financial, nowhere that I've seen.