Two years and still no payment solution for a very huge and popular website like Danbooru? So nobody here uses Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies? Gift cards?
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You can take payments in crypto, coinbase has an easy to use payment integration. You will never get banned for "nsfw".
Alternatively, I know that Pixiv takes both card and paypal payments for premium as long as you have R-18 viewing disabled at the time of purchase. I don't know whether it can be as simple as locking all the rating:explicit posts behind a user account toggle for "show explicit posts" and allowing those payments only while it's turned off.
Another idea is that you can sell some simple merch like keychains and give people gold who buy them.
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Moebits said:
You can take payments in crypto, coinbase has an easy to use payment integration. You will never get banned for "nsfw".
Alternatively, I know that Pixiv takes both card and paypal payments for premium as long as you have R-18 viewing disabled at the time of purchase. I don't know whether it can be as simple as locking all the rating:explicit posts behind a user account toggle for "show explicit posts" and allowing those payments only while it's turned off.
In the past, payments were only available on the domain safebooru.donmai.us, but payment services still refused to provide service to the site.
The payments in crypto seems to be the only viable option.
ForxBase said:
ok so how do i become a gold member now to view hidden images? sankaku can do it?
You can try to win a Platinum level in the raffles that happen every now and then.
Or contribute to the site and be promoted to Builder, which is Gold with a few extra tidbits on top.
ranger101 said:
so why can't we upgrade to gold after 2 years of waiting??
The most reasonable assumption at this point is that any potential alternatives for payment (e.g. crypto) have been deemed not worth the effort. Unless the major payment processors and credit card companies change their stance - which they haven't - I'm guessing paid upgrades will never come back.
It's been pretty well established that any amount of complaining or questioning or whatever else is basically just yelling into the void. Nothing is going to change. I don't even know why I keep checking this thread, honestly.
The same as always: don't expect upgrades to return and you can save yourself disappointment. It's better to bake into the mindset that the only way to get an account upgrade is to contribute or win a raffle than to post here expecting a different answer or that upgrades will return one day. Whether they actually do or not, just assume they never will.
YasuoEnjoyer said:
What does contribute mean exactly?
Upload, tag, translate, discuss in the forums, create wikis, etc. You can read howto:contribute for more information.
Thing is, a lot of people have argued that Danbooru needs to open up Gold because of hosting fees. But what about the scenario where hosting fees just aren't a major problem for whoever owns it? Maybe they're wealthy enough that the costs aren't a big deal, or that there's enough in the bank to cover hosting fees for a decade+ with no additional income.
Especially with how Builder/Platinum are earned, one via infrequent giveaways and the other by a proven reputation of positive contributions to the website, what if the lack of interest in restoring access to Gold, is in fact, a very deliberate choice to curate and cultivate the website in a way that makes it the highest-quality option out there in terms of content?