❤ Help us REBOOT DigitalScrapbook.com ❤

Dear DigitalScrapbook.com Community:

I recently mentioned in another forum post that DigitalScrapbook.com is in the final stages of being converted to a Public Benefit Company, and that this new classification is just the start of what we hope will be an exciting new phase of growth and renewal for DigitalScrapbook.com: we want to “reboot” the site and really take it to the next level. But to do that we need some help from our community, and so we've decided to hold a subscription/donation drive to raise some needed funds.

In this post, I'm going to outline some of our plans, as well as explain why we need support in the form of new subscribers and/or donations.

Don't need any convincing? Well golly gee! You can support us by subscribing for unlimited downloads or making a donation.

What is this reboot all about?

The DigitalScrapbook.com reboot we are planning consists of a number of different items:

1. We want to gather feedback from our community.
What do you love about DigitalScrapbook.com? What would you like to see more of? What new features would you love to see? One of the main ways we gather feedback is through our Feature Requests Forum: please visit that forum and submit ideas so that we can know what's important to you! We also plan to conduct some surveys and form some dedicated focus groups to help guide us as we move forward throughout 2020.

2. We want to implement some long-standing feature requests.
Including but not limited to:

1. Wishlist feature (Done! see the announcement)
2. User activity streams
3. Forum search
4. Allow users to to easily arrow through kits/graphics/gallery when browsing
5. Have the site indicate already downloaded items when browsing/searching (Jordan says this is a hard problem, but we really want to get it done!)

3. We want to improve download speeds and consistency.
We want to implement a dependable content delivery network for all of our downloads, so that users around the world can experience consistent, fast downloads of all our content, all the time.

4. We want to add multiple new designers to our team.
You want DigitalScrapbook.com to have more content and more variety--and we do too! We want to move ahead and add multiple new designers to our team in the near future.

5. We want to renew our vision.
As we become a Public Benefit Company heading into 2020 (learn more here), we want to revisit our Manifesto and renew our vision based on everything we stand for, and taking community feedback into account: we want to make our community stronger, keep giving away as much as we can, and work to improve weak spots and make DigitalScrapbook.com better for everyone.

Are you in? You can support us by subscribing for unlimited downloads or making a donation.

Why do we need your help?

We are excited by our reboot plans, but to move DigitalScrapbook.com forward, we need your help. We are a small operation, and some of our plans (like developing significant new features, improving our download speeds, or adding multiple new designers to the site) require that we have the ability to pay for new services, or pay new people as we bring them onto our team--and right now we have limited ability to do that.

Consider our designers: we have an amazing team of designers at DigitalScrapbook.com who believe in our vision of generous creativity and who agree to let us serve thousands of free downloads every day, offer their products under our extensive commercial use license, and pool our income in order to pay them (since our site does not operate on direct product purchases). It is a special group of people, and we want to add to that group--but we also need to be able to support each new designer that comes on board in a reasonable way.

And we don't want to raise subscription prices, or stop offering free downloads. That is why we've decided to conduct this subscription/donation drive.

Are you in?

If our plans for a reboot sound good to you, if you would like to see multiple new designers join our team, if you appreciate DigitalScrapbook.com and the vision that we stand for (again: check out our Manifesto if you haven't already), if you've enjoyed getting free downloads for a long time--please consider supporting this reboot by subscribing for unlimited downloads (if you are not already a paying member) or by making a donation. Every new subscription and donation is a huge help--even a donation of just $1/month for 12 months makes a difference.

Please help us reboot DigitalScrapbook.com and add multiple new designers to our team:

• Option 1: Support the DigitalScrapbook.com reboot by SUBSCRIBING FOR UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS
• Option 2: Support the DigitalScrapbook.com reboot by DONATING

100% of funds raised from this drive will be put back into our community or otherwise used to support our mission as a Public Benefit Company (learn more).

P.S. If you are already a paying subscriber, you are already doing a lot to support this community, and we certainly don't expect anything more from you--though if you wish to donate as well, we are very grateful.

Thank you!

Whether you are a current or new subscriber, or someone who has made a donation, or someone who has helped serve and support our community in another way: thank you so much! You are the reason we can keep moving forward. Our plans are bigger than we are at the moment, but I believe the support will come, because it always has.

And remember: financial support means a lot to us, but it's certainly not the only kind of support you can give! We recognize and appreciate all kinds of giving. Every time you send someone a kind note or lend a helping hand on the forums you are helping us make the DigitalScrapbook.com vision a reality.