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Dear All

It's been a while since a newsletter was sent out so I thought it was about time to summarise how everything has been going recently.

Overall, our most popular sites carry on growing on an almost daily basis, here are some of our stats:

Anime OTK:
• Around 6000 Active daily visitors. Of which 1700 are members, 4300 are guests or search engine spiders
• An average of over 200 users online (33% members, 33% guests, 33% search engine spiders) in every 15 minute reporting period
• Over 150,000 daily page views
• Over 2,000,000 posts
• Over 18,400 threads
• Almost 60,000 members (of which over 6500 have been active in the past 3 months)
• Over 36,000 images and over 210,000 comments
• Over 900 original works of fiction
• Over 600 video clips

Diapered Anime:
• Around 2250 active daily visitors, of which 550 are members, 1700 are guests or search engine spiders
• An average of around 100 users online (25% members, 25% guests, 50% search engine spiders) in every 15 minute reporting period
• Over 80,000 daily page views
• Over 1,700,000 posts
• Almost 17,000 threads
• Over 50,000 members (of which over 3400 have been active in the past 3 months)
• Over 20,000 images and over 100,000 comments
• Almost 1300 original works of fiction

Yaoi Ai:
• Around 2000 active daily visitors, of which 300 are members, 1700 are guests or search engine spiders
• An average of around 80 users online (25% members, 25% guests, 50% search engine spiders) in every 15 minute reporting period
• Over 100,000 daily page views
• Over 200,000 posts
• Over 4500 threads
• Almost 140,000 members (of which over 5750 have been active in the past 3 months)
• Over 52,000 images and over 75,000 comments
• Over 160 original works of fiction

Other sites we host:
http://thehandprints.com/ – Dedicated to girl spanking art
http://boyzbeingboyz.com/ - Dedicated to boy spanking art

As you may all know, hosting sites costs money… Our current monthly server bill for our main servers is $130 a month (US dollars), the bill for our backup server (on which Handprints and Boyz Being Boyz are also hosted) is £71.88 (British Pounds) annually. Our domain fees are $140 annually. This equates to $1810 (US dollars, €1603 Euros, £1168 British Pounds) in annual running fees just to keep the sites alive. As we no longer have obtrusive advertising on the sites (due mostly to the payouts being terrible!) we rely entirely on donations from you, our members to carry on running. Ai and Akuma have, over the past year supported the sites by covering shortfalls, but total donations over the past 12 months have only been around $300.

We have not been able to afford to update scripts for many years, a full update to XenForo with XenGallery or XenForo with a new version of PhotoPost (since Vbulletin V5 is terrible and stupidly expensive) would cost us $310 (£200, €275). New scripts will do two things, firstly and most importantly they will secure us against unpatched exploits in the current code and stop potential hackers gaining access and killing the sites. Secondly with new code on our servers everything should run much faster. The current code was written for version of phpand mysql that are now obsolete and prevent us from upgrading everything to our liking on server…

Donation Goals:
• $500 – keep adverts off of all sites for the next 6 months
• $800 – Update AnimeOTK to new scripts and keep all adverts off all the sites for the next 6 months
• $1100 – Update AnimeOTK and YaoiAi to new scripts and keep all adverts off all the sites for the next 6 months
• $1400 – Update AnimeOTK, YaoiAi and Diapered Anime to new scripts and keep all adverts off all the sites for the next 6 months
• $2500 – Update all sites with new scripts and custom coding. Group all site databases to work with a single username/password. Custom coding to add *booru style tagging to images.
• $5000 – All of the above and a lot more custom coding!
• $10,000 – Completely custom scripts for all sites, features will be suggested and voted for in all the communities.

If you feel you could afford to donate even $10 please reply to this PM and/or use the “Contact Us” form at the bottom of every page on the site. Every donation is gratefully received.
If you have donated previously, our donation information has not changed – please feel free to use the old information that was sent to you previously again! If you no longer have it and wish to donate a second time please don’t hesitate to contact us. We also now take bitcoin! Our address is: 1AaUB5fVkhNWspT8HLeh1nMys71zzu3YjN

Many Thanks for Reading and Best Regards
-Ai
Admin & Webmaster