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There is at least one online service for making contributions to creators of web content. It's called Patreon. . The minimum contribution is $1.00 USD. It's used by a lot of YouTube creators and other artists, writers, etc. Dave Jones of EEVBLOG uses it. Either Farhan or Hans could set it up. Out of more than three thousand subscribers to this group, $120 per year should be easy.

Regarding ways to delete or lower the storage burden, I would hate to see the attachment feature go. It's one of the great features of Groups.io. With Yahoo, when a poster referred to a photo, it was a PITA to go to the Yahoo site to look at it. Having it right in the post itself is the most natural way. It's how we usually do our emails for other purposes.

Regarding the files section, with some exceptions I have not found it to be particularly useful when it was at Yahoo, mostly because there was no way to search it with keywords, and no organization to the folders and files themselves. Generally, folders were/are named for the contributor, i.e., by call sign, rather than by content and with no way of knowing what's in them except by opening them up and rooting around. Often folders and files would be created as addenda to a specific post or thread, but outside of that original context have little meaning or value. I have not yet looked to see if files and folders can be searched by keyword in Groups.io. I hope so, as it would make a money contribution to support it a no-brainer.

It might also be worthwhile to consider combining "photos" and "files" into one section. A photo is just a file, a document like any other form. I'm not sure there's a reason to distinguish between JPG documents and PDF, DOC, XLS, or any other type.

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Todd K7TFC

I'm ready to chip in $10. I like Jacks idea...if they have a 'lifetime' package it would simplify things a lot.

PJH, N7PXY

Dropbox has a 2 Gig free limit. A group link could be provided for browsing. Links could be pasted in the message without adding bulk to the group site. Access to the files could be password protected. Or just available by link for a set limited time.

I think it's worth consideration as an accessory to the group site.

Please think how to make it work before shooting it down.

For what it's worth, I have downloaded all Bitx 40 files I want. ?

I have deleted all my old pictures of radios I don't even own anymore. My .02 worth of freeing up space.

Joel

KB6QVI

I notice on /static/pricing that paying 10$/mo only gets you 10GB of storage, not a huge increase from 1GB.

Maybe a Raspberry Pi with a hard drive and a fixed IP via a DynDNS account would work to store all the old files/photos so they could still be accessed.

AL? VE3RRD

Didn't look at them, but those files sound useful. ?LTSpice plots can be huge, but the schematics are just a few kbytes, and can be used to recreate the plots.

The LTSpice simulation for the final pa under Files/KE7ER has just the LTSpice schematic plus a pdf of that schematic for those that don't have LTSpice installed. ?Post 21027 has a textual description of what I saw in the plots, that should be in files section along with the schematics as a Readme, or perhaps embedded in the schematic.

Most of what we should remove will likely be 10 year old photos of some guy at a picnic bench. ?On the other hand, the tools we use in 2017 all seem to assume we have several terabytes of hard drive available.

Jerry, KE7ER

I've been saying a simple RF probe could be useful here as a common tool when some debugging is needed. ?And I was likely the one that brought up the N5ESE webpage, but only because that's a top google hit for "RF Probe". ?It consists of 3 parts, and has been in every ARRL Handbook since long before I was born. ?So might be worth a paragraph in Rob's notes, but not worth megabytes. ?

Hardly fair to pick on Fred. ?His upload was arguably more useful than 95% of everything else up there.

Speaking of the ARRL Handbook, my 2015 edition's RF probe assumes your voltmeter has an input resistance of 1meg. ?N5ESE assumes 11meg. ?N5ESE mentions meter input resistance as a potential issue, but leaves that as an exercise for the reader. ?If we are to have consistent RF Probe readings, we'll need to work on that issue a bit.

Jerry, KE7ER

I like that idea. ?Archive all stuff as is somewhere else, then start fresh. ?Somebody who has been around for awhile copies over anything that matters, like schematics and instructions for older rigs. ?And we have guidelines for what's appropriate to put in the new files section. ?Maybe a tmp directory, for stuff like pictures of you unwrapping the package from hfsigs? ?Maybe somebody maintains an index file, pointing to stuff in the file section they think matters, with the number of the post in the message section that might need to accompany it?

Perhaps start a new group: bitx40? ?Leave bitx20 to the build-from-scratch folks?

As is, there's way too much clutter to find stuff that matters. ?Having a max of 1gig hovering over us could help keep things findable. ?When somebody asks "what component values should I use for 80 meters", a response of "Just look in the files section" is currently not very helpful.

I see that the minima mailing list archive has all attachments stripped from postings. ?That includes html. ?Some posts were sent as html instead of straight ascii text, those have now been lost to posterity.

Jerry, KE7ER

Yahoo allowed 500 GB for free. ?I guess that was ONE redeeming quality.

We could use third party storage with sharing links for older files, and/or larger files.

I would check out MEGA and MyFILES which seem to be the free offerings with the largest space available.

--Neil W2NDG