Forum upgrade Fund Rave

Hi, folks.
As I'm sure you all know, the forum has been suffering growing pains for quite some time now. The operating system and forum software have not been upgraded in a decade, and are well beyond end of support. The hosting platform has been paid for by one developer out of pocket for the past 20 years. We need to upgrade the hosting service and upgrade the software. JT has already shown that we can upgrade the current system, but due to lack of resources the upgrade had to be reverted. We're looking for donations to fund the new platform, and plan on upgrading to a more modern OS and forum, retaining all data from the old forum. We are not considering changing to a different forum platform at this point. The immediate goal is to upgrade the software and move to a more capable hosting system.
To that end, we've started a GoFundMe to solicit donations to host the forum. We're looking for $2000 in donations, which will cover hosting for the next five years. We need a long-term solution so that we're not scrambling to keep it going in the future. We are hoping to reach that goal by the end of this month. If we do not reach our goal we'll refund everyone's money and look at other options.
If you find this forum a valuable resource, please consider donating. We're suggesting $20, which amounts to $4/year, but if you can give more, that would be great. If you can give $5, we would be grateful for that.
To donate, please go to www.gofundme.com/manage/donate-to-upgrade-the-linuxcnc-forum .Our sincere thanks to all who can help. Cheers!

The link is not working for me, it just shows me their main page.
Searching for LinuxCNC also does return nothing, and so does searching for the code ID.

I got an email from GoFundMe saying they don't like something about our campaign, and have suspended it. I'm working to clarify things with them.
I also change the link to the full URL, and that was working until the suspension.
Their initial reviews are done by an LLM, which errs on the side of caution, so I'm not too concerned at this point. Once a human reviews things I'm confident we can move forward. I'll post again when have more information.
We've already reached more than 25% of our goal!
--Stephen

I got a reply from a human very quickly, and made the edit they requested. Once they review the edit it should be live again.
Cheers!

The Fund Rave is live again!
Show us your love - we're already at 30% of our goal!
Cheers!

I am amazed at the response to the forum funding. Never in my wildest dreams did I think this could happen but everyone here and on the IRC are pulling together to make a better forum and a much stronger LinuxCNC.

Thank you all
JT

Magnificent!

Hi, folks.
We raised US$2950 yesterday - surpassing our goal by almost 50%!
Thank you everyone who was able to donate. We now have the money to upgrade the forum server and operate it for the next five years, with money left over to help with other parts of the LinuxCNC project.
This response was astonishing!
JT will be the lead person on the upgrades, since he's already done it once and knows the ins and outs of getting it all done, He'll be out of town for a couple weeks, but we'll move to the new machine as soon as he's back, and then do all the upgrades.
Thank you again, and stay tuned.
--Stephen