Support Erowid! September Public Support Drive!

[Xorkoth]

Do you guys appreciate Erowid like I do? I hope so. For me, Erowid was my first discovered and used source of information when I started wanting to learn about the drugs I was considering doing. I spent countless hours reading (and loving) trip reports, and what I learned there, and continue to learn, has been such a big help to me over the years, and has given me the ability to be a safe and knowledgeable drug user. They've also hosted a whole bunch of my trip reports, exposing them to a wide audience. That database/system is one I'm sure we have ALL utilized and appreciated, and it takes a lot of work and server space. Erowid isn't running ads or anything, so they really rely on user donations to keep going.

Additionally, they sometimes run special fund drives for specific causes, and currently for one more day only (today), they are holding their September drive, for Ecstasydata.org. See details from Spoon below:

Show your support for Erowid - give at https://www.erowid.org - just 1 day left
Reaching 1,194 individual donations this month would mean the most donations in one month in Erowid's 20 years.
[As of 5PM PST Thursday, the number was 900, with 294 more to go]

Cryptocurrency gratefully accepted; a donation of .0083 BTC or higher counts toward the goal

EcstasyData themed:

If 300 people give $10 (matched!) at Erowid.org/sept_drive, it covers the cost of new drug analytical standards for EcstasyData for a year

Support a streamlined submissions system for EcstasyData - give today at Erowid.org/sept_drive... donations of $10 qualify to be matched

300 donations of $20 supports the cost of 100 EcstasyData tests - please give today at Erowid.org/sept_drive and get a $10 donation matched!

Please consider donating today, as donations are matched. If not today, they really could use the support anytime, so I hope you'll consider donating... I'm going to go do that now.

 

[Kaleida]

Awesome post, Xorkoth. I really hope that people here appreciate Erowid as well, because it is absolutely an invaluable resource for any would-be responsible drug user, no matter how they intend to use said drugs. We would not be where we are now without them, and they deserve all the support they can get. I donate every year when they ask, and I did this morning as well!

Please, if you can give even just a few dollars, take the time to do so, for all of us. They've earned it.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

Xork, shoulda posted this ummm... about thirty days ago mate

They always shoot past their intended goal for September, I'm sure this year will be no different! Thanks in large part to viewers, like you

 

[Bella Figura]

Erowid has been the bedrock of so much of my knowledge, it's a pleasure to donate to.

 

[perpetualdawn]

Done!

 

[Bella Figura]

https://www.erowid.org/donations/sept_drive.php?src=924r

Nicely done guys

 

[Xorkoth]

Woohoo, yeah they were just telling me how much this helped. Awesome, good job everyone.

 

[Bigazznugz]

Mabey with some new money coming in they could update the site? They are backlogged soo bad with good info other researchers have given them, but most of it doesnt get added to the site.
I love erowid. About ten years ago they were really on there shit and kept adding new stuff. I guess all the entry's are way too much for earth and fire erowid to handle. Guess they need a programmer.......

 

[Xorkoth]

They have a programmer (I think) and Spoon is the one who handles TRs mostly. They don't do it totally alone but not sure how many they have. As for trip report submission, they get far more than they can review so the backlog grows and grows. You can actually help review reports, it's easy and helps a lot in that area. I made a thread about it in the TR forum: http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/291523-Love-reading-experience-reports-Then-Help-Erowid!

 

[LSD-Magic]

Erowid is fantastic. It's some of the best drug info I've seen on the net.

 

[Bigazznugz]

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