Historical Archives - DonationCoder.com

Preserving ancient history

Some things age better than others, but we believe in preserving our old content and discussions, even if only as historical artifacts. This section provides a home for pages that are no longer timely or relevant.

The history of DonationCoder

If you're interested in the history of the site itself, check out our about us page, or browse though our archive of past newsletters.

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The NANY 2018 Special Event

Check out the new free software and fun stuff released as part of our NANY (New Apps for the New Year) 2018 event on January 1, 2018: here.

Since 2007 we have held an annual event that we call NANY (New Apps for the New Year), where we ask the coders who hang out on DonationCoder to create some new piece of free software and share it with the world on January 1st of the new year. NANY is really the funnest thing we do on this site, and it's one of the few times we can all play together. There are no winners or losers, it's simply a celebration of programming and creating new software and sharing it with the world.

This page colllects some old historical / legacy pages that we felt were too out of date and too idiosyncratic to migrate over from the older version of our website.

Old software reviews
Our old super-long and comprehensive software reviews, written by members of our community.
Old best-of-the-web roundups
This is how we memorialized good web discoveries before we started writing regular newsletters.
Old site-of-the-week awards
At one point we gave out awards for websites we like; this has been supplanted by our newer list of favorite websites.
Old amateur podcasts
A few older audio podcast radio shows where we interviewed folk.
Old programming contests
Free software submmitted to programming contests run on the site.
Old video tours of DonationCoder
Some older screencast video tours of different areas of our website.
Old Coding Snacks
The very oldest Coding Snacks, before we established a formal section on the forum for them.
Old Signature Images
A collection of small images that users can attach to the bottom of their social or forum posts or email.
Request a Fun Member Kit
If you are a supporting member of our site we will mail you some silly gifts, anywhere in the world.
Old thank you page
Our old "professional" thank you page that some people loved and others found distressing.