ao3tagoftheday:

rppadthai:

Just a reminder in the year our lord 2018 that Archiveofourown.org is NON-PROFIT organization that manages a large FREE TO USE site that DOES NOT HAVE ADVERTISEMENTS AND DOES NOT SELL YOUR INFORMATION.

They do twice yearly donation drives which the VAST MAJORITY OF goes to paying for SERVER FEES. 

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HERE IS AO3′S TRANSPARENT EXPENSE REPORT FROM AUGUST OF THIS YEAR.

AND HERE IS A LINUS TECH TIPS VIDEO EXPLAINING HOW GODDAMN EXPENSIVE SERVERS ARE.

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TL;DR: Servers are super expensive, Ao3, a non-profit, asks for voluntary donations to help pay for them.

Hey friends! I know you all value AO3 (because if you don’t, why the fuck are you following me) so help them out if you can!