I've been a member of this site for almost half my life. To say that it has been an influence on me would be an understatement. So many fond memories. So many friendships. So many good people. It has been a net positive in my life.

Thank you, Jesse, for DonationCoder. And thank you to everyone here who has been a part of what made it great.

I haven't been coming regularly, but I'm glad I came in time to say goodbye. @Deo's words echo my own. Mouser this was a great experiment and an unqualified success, and I'm sorry to see it go.

Hello folks!
I havent been on here nearly as much as I would like to have been, but it has been a real source of enjoyment for me. I even submitted a couple of programs a long while back, which was great fun.

Yeah, it really stinks to see it go away, but eventually ALL good things must end.

I'm really sorry to see DonationCoder go. But I know it got zero activity from me in the recent years.

On the other hand, I'm still using every single day the wonderful Cody Mug I won (with the smaller mug sitting in the cupboard as a backup). I still from time to time use some software I once won in a contest here (e.g. BeyondCompare). I'm just... not good at all at being active in a community. But I have five NANY badges in my profile, hope that counts

Thank you very very much for creating and leading this place for us, Jesse.

Hello Mouser.

Couldn't help but think of Donationcoder today. Then I saw the invite link to the Donationcoder Discord server. Is that invitation still open?

A little update: with the AI coding ability gotten so good, I feel confident that we will have a full (read-only) archive of donationcoder.com and dcmembers.com up before end of year, with all public software and forum posts, profiles, attachments, images, etc. all preserved, and that it can be done in a secure and affordable way so that it can live forever as a historical artifact.
thanks to stephen for starting me on this path.

it will still be at donationcoder.com and dcmembers.com urls, but hosted on a simple server and not using any server software like php, etc.  There will be no database, no ogins, no passwords, no personal messages accessible (or even on the server in any form).    So it will be secure indefinitely.

HOWEVER,

What you still need to do:
Any forum personal messages will be gone from this archive, so if you want a copy you need to download your personal messages now if you want a record of them.
Any content on any of the non-public forums will be gone (Basement, old coding school, administrative chat forum section).  So grab anything you need there.

Also: Your donationcredits info will be gone, so request paypal payment of any donationcredits remaining in your account asap.