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Official Announcements / Re: Winding down DonationCoder after 20 years

« Last post by xesenif on April 14, 2026, 07:40 AM »

I'm not a coder but I've found, and use, so many useful programs from here.  Really sad to see it go.  I hope access to the programs remain, and as much as everything else.  Thanks so much for a great site!

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Official Announcements / Re: Winding down DonationCoder after 20 years

« Last post by kunkel321 on April 14, 2026, 07:33 AM »

It is indeed sad to see it end.  I agree, though; better to end gracefully than with some catastrophic event.   

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Official Announcements / Re: Winding down DonationCoder after 20 years

« Last post by anandcoral on April 14, 2026, 03:54 AM »

I became famous due to Donation Coder 

I will remain grateful to Mouser and all members of DC for helping me to put my knowledge and create useful apps, as NANY apps.
This has helped me to become a known face in the world.

Though it looks very sad to me as my own home is closing, but I agree we must move with time.
Hope we can keep in touch in some way in coming years.

I will try to make some more apps, if possible, as happy closing. I will request members here too to put more apps with DC name.

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Official Announcements / Re: Winding down DonationCoder after 20 years

« Last post by Ath on April 14, 2026, 02:06 AM »

I'm having a hard time finding the right words.

-mouser (April 13, 2026, 04:54 PM)

Aw, I feel the pain, and it's somewhat unsettling, but it feels as the best way to proceed, seeing the traffic dwindle, the  last couple of years.

We sure did have fun, and you've been of great comfort to me personally, when I went through a harsh time, some (13) years ago.

Thanks Jesse, and all other regulars, for providing this; the best forum in the world .

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Tool to open skn files, skinning FARR

« Last post by victorhaydens on April 14, 2026, 02:04 AM »

Good find, VclSkin Builder is usually the right tool for that format. Might help to mention which app or framework the .skn came from since the extension isn’t standardized.

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Official Announcements / Re: Winding down DonationCoder after 20 years

« Last post by skwire on April 14, 2026, 01:00 AM »

We did have fun didn't we?

-mouser (April 13, 2026, 04:54 PM)

Damn right, we had fun.   

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Official Announcements / Winding down DonationCoder after 20 years

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2026, 04:54 PM »

It's painfully hard to write this, but I think it's important that I get the ball rolling and give everyone as much advance notice as I can.
I have decided that we will close up operations here on Donationcoder at the end of the 2026.

It's been clear to us all for a while that the site is not very active and is painful to use. So it's time to say goodbye.  Both because the server costs are unsustainable, but also because maintenance of the site is just not feasible going forward and it's better to close things up gracefully rather than wait for a catastrophic problem or hack.

What I will try to do is find a way to archive all the forum and web page content and keep it available in read-only form online.  No reason that can't still be at the donationcoder.com url indefinitely.
I have removed the Donation links to paypal and replaced them with a permanent license key.  The software I wrote will all continue to work of course.

I will try to write more about how much you all have meant to me in the coming weeks, and how much DonationCoder has meant to me over the years.  It all feels very raw trying to write this and I'm having a hard time finding the right words.  I have met some wonderful people here, and I'm finding it hard to express my thoughts about the whole project without breaking down.

UPDATE:
1. You can now export all of your received and sent personal messages; just go to the My Messages inbox, and from the action menu you should see an option to Export all personal messages (sent and received).
2. Please feel free to request a cashout of any donationcredits in your account from now until the end of the year; just go to the DonationCredits page and choose to request a cashout, and no need to feel any weird way about it!
3. As I said, we are going to archive the site in read only mode and move it to a cheap server where it should be able to outlive all of us as a record of a different time.
4. I'm still on Discord every day and you can find me in the DonationCoder discord server: https://discord.gg/BV8rRWx6vz

-jesse (mouser)

We did have fun didn't we?

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PublicDomainVic / Re: Folderize - Right-click to create folders with matching names or group (v0.1.0)

« Last post by booga69 on April 13, 2026, 11:48 AM »

Great tool, so far it's worked well under Windows 11 in 2026, for which most similar tools are having issues. Kudos to you!

I do have one feature request for Folderize+ Input : being able to start from folders or folders/Files rather than files only. Right now it seems to fail if i select multiple folders than Folderize+.

I believe you may have mentioned you were working on an update. Do you have a rough ETA ?

Thanks !

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomasohariss on April 13, 2026, 07:47 AM »

Hi from London! Joined and thought I'd say hi. Like tinkering with tools, trying out new stuff, and finding smarter ways to get things done.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gridmove

« Last post by evansix on April 13, 2026, 03:05 AM »

Casper 8 opens in a small window in the primary monitor of my desktop x32Win10ProV22H2 system. The 'Copy Drive' window also does, but I want it in the secondary monitor. Four Window Manager programs, after initial success, fail to KEEP geometry game 2
 it opening there. I want to see if GridMove can give a more permanent result. From the extensive documentation with GridMove, I can not figure out how to apply it to my 'problem'. The two Youtubes I found have no sound-track and give ME no useful information. Can you help ?

-Sebastian42 (February 01, 2026, 09:38 AM)

GridMove isn’t ideal for forcing apps to open on a specific monitor, it’s more for snapping windows after they open. A more reliable approach is using tools like Microsoft PowerToys FancyZones or DisplayFusion, which can assign apps to a monitor consistently. Also try opening Casper, moving it to the second monitor, then closing it normally, some apps remember the last window position.