I LOVE this place.

and thanks to you and all our tech experts

And done!

I love this place!

Thank you for the hard work!

I hope you can take a well earned break over the holidays!

I have no idea why, but I sent you a bit of my savings.

edit to clarify - I have no idea why my insurance premium fluctuates so much year to year. I do know why I sent you some of my premium savings .

without it being tied to star membership. I like to renew my membership in February, but would not mind making a donation separate from that when needed.

If there is a way, can someone enlighten me?

Thanks!

Whenever you make a Star Membership purchase, it's like starting fresh -- you get a 12 month membership from the time you made the purchase. So people who have a recurring monthly Star Membership are essentially just restarting their membership each month. If they stop the recurring monthly payment, they still get a full year's Star Membership from the time of the last payment.

So if you like to make your payment in February, whether it's automatic or manual, making a one-time purchase now doesn't affect your Star Membership. Essentially you'll just be adding a "bonus donation" -- your Star Membership will continue, and when you make your next contribution in February, your Star Membership begins again for another year at that time.

I hope that makes sense -- the bottom line is that if you follow the link in the OP to the donation page, you can make a one-time contribution and it won't affect your February contribution.

Thanks!

That makes sense.

Have $25 and a Happy Holidays.

And thanks again for all the fish.

And done!

For one, Paypal won't accept my valid, prepaid credit/debit card. I have always used them.

Then, Paypal says I have to change my security settings so they can plant cookies on my computer, I'm reluctant to go there.

Maybe I'll just mail it to you.

Thank so much for all you do, all year through.

DU is the best!!

Marvelous job!

Hi Earl,

Ads continue to block my view of the left third of DU's home page, covering articles and preventing me from reading them. The problem started a few days ago, and is ongoing.

This is a major glitch that is leading me to spend much less time on the site.
If I can't even see half the articles, what's the point?

Could you please fix this?

I've been working with my ad company for months trying to get them to stop doing that.

I just added some code in which should brute-force the ads to stay within the containing column. The ads will be cut off on the right side but that's better than them overlapping the content. Hopefully that will solve the issue for you. The code should be updated in a few minutes.

While I'm indifferent as to Jimmy Wails himself, I can tell you I once had an interaction with him - on a subject he knew absolutely nothing about.

He dismissed my suggestion with this (predictably) conceited disregard, basically telling me that no explanation was needed because his mere whims were policy.

(I did get around him though)

Small wonder it's turned into a plaything for paid trolls, GSOC types, and - as one user put it - "basement-dwelling masturbators."

I really appreciate all your hard work. The tab setup is working great for me. I didn't mind the other format, but now that I've gotten used to the tabs, I have to say they really are easier to use.

I've been wondering, though, whst your plans are for fixing the issues I described in this post: https://www.democraticunderground.com/125623787

All of the glitches I described there are still happening for me. I've developed some workarounds (like hitting "preview" right after I type in the title and before typing anything else; it seems to stick when I do that), but I'm still having to type most of my posts in portrait view, which is not my preference.

If these things can't be fixed, I can deal, but I really hope they can!

....running smoothly and enjoyably!

Now I'm off to the donation page...

🤣🤣🤣

I read DU posts several times a day and appreciate the differing opinions. DU has helped me survive emotionally ever since TFG reared his ugly head as a candidate. I cannot thank you enough for maintaining this site, as well as providing all the updates.

I am beyond grateful to you. Thank you.,

Much appreciated!

all these significant changes and improvements.

Donated and hope everyone who can, will.

I once ended up with two Star membership auto deductions.

on your Star Membership page -- click the My DU tab, then the Star Membership button.

However, the absolute best way to be sure that you don't have more than one recurring payment is to visit your PayPal account here:

https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/autopay

On that page (in the left column if you're not on mobile) you should be able to find links to all your recurring PayPal payments. That's where you can make sure you didn't set up multiple payments by accident.

EarlG, and other DU officials for making DU such a great place to be.

Love love love more screen space!!!!!!

I appreciate the efforts of EarlG and others and am trying to help by becoming a star member. No luck in doing an online donation (the system wants to confirm I'm me by calling a long ago replaced cel phone) so I sent a check by snail mail a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully that'll do the trick. Again, thanks for efforts. Cheers, OSD

I've been so busy with DU4 that I haven't stopped by the DU P.O. Box in a while -- I'll try and get there tomorrow, but if you sent the check a few weeks ago I'm sure it's there by now. So you don't have to wait, I've gone ahead and assigned you a Star Membership. Thank you!

I had figured the DU4 launch had your attention but had no idea this whole thing is being done by so few (2?) people...truly impressive and performance clearly above and beyond the call of duty...thanks again. OSD

I'd be lost without this place! Sanity, insanity, right, wrong and everything in between. I love this place. Best thing I can do all year.

I know you can get to it via a couple tab clicks, but it would nice to be able to simple scroll down the Home Page to see the latest GD posts, like we were previously able to do.

I keep donating because DU keeps improving

Have toiled for at least many hundreds of hours on this upgrade!

This place is like home to me. The improvements are great. All the work you folks do here is greatly appreciated.
The fact that though I am living outside of the US, but can get prompt US news is the best.
However, there is one thing that is bugging me, and I would suspect others. That is, every time that you folks update the software here, I get the privacy notice, and have to delete the cache. The last few times it resulted in me having to retype usernames and passwords on every website that I have visited. I think I have figured out how to remove the cache for just this site in Firefox on my MacOs machine. It does bug me, but I guess I can live with it.
Thanks for all your great work
Rocco
Netherlands,

which makes me wonder if an improvement you made is shooting yourself in the foot.

I LOVE the "rec post" feature, and I find myself using it a lot. But that means I am no longer replying to posts with "+1" or "k and r."

Is it possible that the "rec post" feature reduces the total number of posts on the site? And does that impact your ad revenue?

I don't know how it works and this many not be a factor, but if it is I don't want you getting less money because you did such a great update.

Thanks for all the hard work.

All of your hard work is so appreciated. DU4 is looking and working great. 🥰

Just hit 19 years here. DU has gotten me through some shitty political times as well as been a place of celebration during some amazing milestones. Thanks for keeping it up and running smoothly!

Edited to add: I am still having big trouble making text corrections on my cell phone. The text window jumps down below my keyboard when I try to move the cursor to the place where I need to make the text correction. Today, I just noticed that, the page is also jumping all the way up to the top of the page when I try to make text corrections on my cell phone. After five or six tries, I just abandon the text and the comment altogether.

I have to correct text invisibly because the text disappears down out of visibility and I need to count how many letters I need to X out to reach the point where I need to make the correction. It’s very frustrating.

Now I can get there without all the workarounds.

is there a way to add a link to the homepage at the bottom of pages? there are already a pile of links, for example at the bottom of this page there is a reply button, and then 4 links in the line:

Should be able to take care of it this week

wow!

Love it! thank you!

Well, in my name, but i was thinking about him as i gave.