Help a worthy site: Duotrope

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Elizabeth

Some news from Duotrope:

Greetings from Duotrope’s Digest,

Notes for this week:
We were 8% short of our contributions goal for the month of June. We thank everyone who donated!

What the heck is going on at duotrope.com? If you’ve been on our site lately, you’ve probably noticed that it’s running very slowly and that there are more timeouts and other errors than usual. A few weeks ago, Duotrope’s traffic increased to the point that it starting putting a heavy strain on the database technology we’ve been using for the past 3 years. We’ve been planning an upgrade for a while, but this has forced us to start earlier (and work more frantically) than we had planned. We realize the site can be incredibly frustrating at times (even more so for us). We beg your patience. We are working as hard and as fast as we can, but we still have day jobs and families to attend to. To those of you who have kindly offered your assistance, we appreciate it, but we do all development ourselves. We will post an announcement when we’ve finalized the move to the new database technology.

How is our Keep It Free Campaign going?
CODE ORANGE! We are behind on meeting our current goal for this month. Even a small amount will help. If all of our subscribers contributed just $4.25 per year, we would meet our goal for the year. Unfortunately, only a small percentage of our subscribers contributes. So far this year, 7.19% of our subscribers have donated. The average donation has been $16.89.
(Learn more about the campaign and why we need donations.)

$4.25 a year? I know I wouldn’t miss that — would you?

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2 Responses to “Help a worthy site: Duotrope”

  1. Toskey Stone, on July 8th, 2008 at 6:34 pm Said:

    Why donate money to an organization that refuses to identify themselves? Why the need to be anonymous? Because they really are a front for a major corporate writer’s magazine and that would hurt donations? Why would you give money to anyone who won’t tell you who they are?

  2. Elizabeth, on July 8th, 2008 at 7:12 pm Said:

    Oh, I guess. I haven’t worked up that much cynicism about it. I figure if I throw Duotrope five bucks here and there, it’s little enough to pay for a service I really like. I don’t understand what the benefit to Major Corporate Writer’s Magazine would be, anyway. Wouldn’t it be easier just to advertise?

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