That price increase is definately not good, to present members, and especially to prospective members.
Look at it this way: Would you rather have 1000 memberships @ $25.00, or 300 memberships @ $50.00 ? I think that's the way it's going to play out, that the extra amount tacked on obviously is discouraging to many, as witnessed by many of the above posts. WHY doesn't anyone listen when members who have been here for some time speak ? And if anyone does listen and responds, surely
it could have been a much better response, something like "Yeh, our bandwidth has increased so much, and increasing rates by our web hosting company make this membership increase necessary", not some statement about donations....
L, if I wanted to donate something, I'd donate something; people BUY things for a specific reason; people DONATE for a specific reason.
That's what happens with most good freeware, it goes from freeware with donations to commercial software, because NO ONE DONATES ! So, flock donating anything. I don't mind paying for things, but I pay for a specific thing.
JMHO....