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 21 Aug 2008, 17:16 #42379 Reply To Post
4 Days to Review Reading Assignments Function Appeal

Donate to get this function added more quickly

Recently we asked if members would be interested in donating towards getting new programming functions in on YouWriteOn and a number of members kindly said that they would. We are ready to proceed with this. The first function we discussed was lowering the time to review Reading Assignments from 7 day to 4 days. Overall, members felt this would encourage further the number of reviews. We have discussed this with the programmers, and to add this to the site would cost £100 overall, this would include the programming, changing of text and related pages, and uploading to the site. This would take between 5 to 7 days to complete by a programmer in their off-duty time after their normal work.

Once we successfully move forward with this, we can look at other functions members are keen on.

If you would like to make a donation, you can make one by Paypal to youwriteon@googlemail.com or email us at the same email address for other ways to make payments. We will give a running total every few days as to the level of donations raised, and we are posting now to see how much we might be able to raise over the bank holiday weekend. A donation doesn't give ownership of the site or anything to that value, but it will help ensure we will see functions in a lot quicker for your use.

YouWriteOn.com's programming is largely supported on a voluntary basis. As the site has has grown so much our programmers kindly help out the site and its community as and when they can, and sometimes new functions can take several months to introduce because of this. We thought of the idea of 'Support A New Function' if members would like to see functions bought in much more quickly while also gaining the benefit of the function.


Every time we check the donations and one has come in we will add an emoticon or perhaps something less annoying.

Thank you for your help.

Ted
This post was last edited by Assignment Robot, 24 Aug 2008, 14:07
HJW
 21 Aug 2008, 18:52 #42382 Reply To Post
Are you sure helpdog won't just blow it all on dog biscuits and hot bitches?
Oh blogger

Assignment Robot
 21 Aug 2008, 19:47 #42386 Reply To Post
Help Dog has been put in charge of monitoring donations, and, no, not a penny went towards his software upgrade from K-9 to Deluxe Robo Dog as seen in his new avatar.

We are very pleased to announce our first donation celebration emoticon, with a very kind and generous donation of £20. Thank you for your donation.



And for good measure we've added a firework, the full firework display will be set off if we reach the full £100.

Assignment Robot
 21 Aug 2008, 20:32 #42392 Reply To Post
Another donation - of £15! YouWriteOn hasn't seen so much green coming our way in many a year.

Thank you kindly, kind donor.

We are now over one third of the way there, and time to let off another firework. Aside: Help Dog, put the firework in the bottle, DON'T carry it around in your mouth.





Assignment Robot
 23 Aug 2008, 13:58 #42485 Reply To Post
A donation received of £10! Once more we light the touch paper from a safe distance and with all due caution. (Aside, help dog, face the blow torch AWAY from your face when lighting the firework)

Assignment Robot
 23 Aug 2008, 14:05 #42486 Reply To Post
And another very kind donation received of £15! We are now nearly two thirds of the way towards the new function appeal. Thank you kindly.

Wendy Wynde
 23 Aug 2008, 14:43 #42492 Reply To Post
Quote: YouWriteOn, Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 17:16
4 Days to Review Reading Assignments Fuction Appeal
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Review fuction?
You always get more of what you focus on in life...
Lorraine
 23 Aug 2008, 14:51 #42493 Reply To Post
Quote: Wendy Wynde, Saturday, 23 Aug 2008 14:43
Quote: YouWriteOn, Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 17:16
4 Days to Review Reading Assignments Fuction Appeal
Review fuction?
You know how it goes. You get a bad review and you think, oh fuction, I wish I could remove this one.
This post was last edited by Lorraine, 23 Aug 2008, 15:07
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Wendy Wynde
 23 Aug 2008, 14:58 #42496 Reply To Post
Nice one
You always get more of what you focus on in life...
Assignment Robot
 24 Aug 2008, 14:11 #42554 Reply To Post
We can also use the gunpowder from the fireworks as an explosive you know.



Very good.
Assignment Robot
 26 Aug 2008, 12:33 #42623 Reply To Post
Another very generous donation of £10! Thank you kindly!

Time to break the by-laws and let off an early firework early afternoon.

Assignment Robot
 26 Aug 2008, 12:37 #42624 Reply To Post
And another one of £15! Thank you! We will just use our high tech accounting procedure to check the running total ..




We are now up to £85 pounds!! Very nearly there.

visinker
 27 Aug 2008, 11:26 #42692 Reply To Post
Oh Helpdog, your new outfit is so sleek and shiny!

Read the titles of some of my erotica on my Website...


MadCow
Assignment Robot
 27 Aug 2008, 18:01 #42723 Reply To Post
Quote: visinker, Wednesday, 27 Aug 2008 11:26
Oh Helpdog, your new outfit is so sleek and shiny!




We threw out the old helpdog, he no longer browned toast properly and several times we just caught him before he put a reading assignment into the toaster.

Donations update .. Will we be letting off more fireworks? We will be providing an update tomorrow.


Assignment Robot
 28 Aug 2008, 11:38 #42777 Reply To Post
We were out at meetings yesterday, but the donations flooded in .. £10, £5, £15, £10, and another £10 and £15 .. which brings us to a grand total of .. £150!!!!!

We have gone over target!! We would really like to thank everyone for their kind donations, which will really be of benefit to the site and members. Once all payments are cleared, the programmer will begin, which should be during next week and this will take between 5 to 7 working days to complete.

We'd like to suggest, if those that donated during the past one or two days are willing, that we look at what we can do next for expediting functions. We thought either the 7 or 10 reviews to feature in the Top Ten, or function to display the lowest review could be the next function candidates. We will need to speak to the programmer as to the time and cost of each of these. Also, for example, the '7 or 10 reviews to feature in top Ten function' would need to come in at the start of a month once the previous months results were in to avoid problems. If you have donated over the past couple of days email us your preference, and we will take this into consideration alongside other member feedback and the practicalities of both functions.

In the meantime, many, many thanks to everyone who donated, and we will keep on working to try to introduce as many valuable features to the site as we can.

And now we're going to blow the rest of the fireworks box in celebration of your kind donations to get the first function in. We will keep you posted as to the development of the first function.

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