14 July 19
So the Rollover fundraising page was very unpopular, with our readers, our staff and me. In fairness it was never anywhere we wanted to be.
The truth and the problem is that it worked. When we were having a slow day for donations Rolling-over the site to the fundraising message would pick up the pace of donations just enough to keep the funding-drive viable.
Without that we are once seeing days of fundraising numbers so low we have no chance of covering our costs.
It’s also nowhere we want to be.
Marc Ash
Founder, Reader Supported News
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EXCERPT:
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