PF Premium Membership Now Available

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The Physics Forum (PF) has introduced a premium membership option for $25 per year, offering various perks such as ad-free browsing, increased private message limits, and customization options for profiles. Members can also enjoy features like viewing online users and managing user notes. The payment can be made via PayPal or through checks, with support for multiple currencies. The initiative aims to secure the forum's future and enhance user experience while encouraging community support. Premium membership benefits are designed to reward contributors and maintain the forum's quality.
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Support PF and receive some perks by signing up for a premium membership!

Benefits
  • The satisfaction that you are supporting PF and securing it's future
  • No ads
  • Recognition graphic and italized name
  • Ability to set yourself invisible
  • Create a custom title
  • Add a signature
  • Choose an avatar or upload a custom avatar 64/64
  • Upload profile photo
  • 100 PM limit (default is 25)
  • View whos online
  • View/Post/Manage user notes

Fee: $25 for 1 year ($2/m, price of a pack of candy)

I have taken into consideration everyones budgets and I have come up with a very reduced fee.

To sign up goto your usercp and on the left sidebard find "paid subscriptions". Or click here: https://www.physicsforums.com/subscriptions.php

You can pay through paypal with several major credit cards and check cards in USD, Euro or British Pounds. If for some reason you don't have access to a credit card please email me and you can send a check or money order.

Please take this opportunity to show your appreciation and support for PF so that we may continue to function at a high level.
 
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Cool, thanks! :smile:
 
anthonyryan said:
Cool, thanks! :smile:

Your welcome!

Let me know if anyone has problems, the system should be fully automated and the benefits immediate.
 
I just payed at pay pal. Ooooh. I'm a contributor! :biggrin:
 
Hm... $13 in my wallet.. Dinner or donate... Wait, I don't have $25! Problem solved.

I wish I weren't so poor. =\

cookiemonster
 
I wouldn't worry about it. :wink:
 
since i see things listed for premium members that are currently available, such as seeing the people that are online. then i guess those features would be removed for non-premium members.
 
Is it $25 USD ?
 
cipher said:
since i see things listed for premium members that are currently available, such as seeing the people that are online. then i guess those features would be removed for non-premium members.

The "Whos Online" page which gives greater detail is only for premium members.

Is it $25 USD ?

$25
£13.60
€20.60
 
  • #10
Huzzah! :biggrin:

Now why do I feel dirty?
 
  • #11
Chen said:
Huzzah! :biggrin:

Now why do I feel dirty?

Haha, you of all people should not complain when in a month or so hopefully we buy hivemail.
:wink: :smile:
 
  • #12
Can i have details of payment by cheque?
 
  • #13
hey greg i can see who is online now. so what i was asking is if it would be removed.
 
  • #14
hey greg i can see who is online now. so what i was asking is if it would be removed.
The page or just the list of the homepage?
 
  • #15
GREG,
paypal keeps telling me i already have an account and asking for my password,
since i have never used PP I am baffled, i have tried "forgoten password", several
times, but i do not get a return post, my E MAIL is working ok.
can you give alternate payment method. what happened to life membership?
 
  • #16
You probably used an accountname that was already reserved by someone else? Try setting up a new PP account with another name.
 
  • #17
wolram said:
GREG,
paypal keeps telling me i already have an account and asking for my password,
since i have never used PP I am baffled, i have tried "forgoten password", several
times, but i do not get a return post, my E MAIL is working ok.
can you give alternate payment method. what happened to life membership?

wolram, you don't need an account with paypal to pay through paypal. I've added a longer 6yr subscription with a year discount.
 
  • #18
finally it worked, i had 10 E Mails from PP all together, was it a
constipated server? who's ugliest me or GB?
 
  • #19
wolram said:
finally it worked, i had 10 E Mails from PP all together, was it a
constipated server? who's ugliest me or GB?

You calling harry henderson ugly, oh boy! Good thing I'm not going to tell him! :biggrin:

btw, I've super sized harry, muahaha
 
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So, everyone who has the premium membership, are you enjoying it? Let's tell the "regulars" what their missing :smile:
 
  • #21
its a bit like the DRUIDS, you have to commit befor you get the
privelages of the inner sanctum, it makes me drool just thinking
about it, :biggrin:
 
  • #22
The extra perks are definitely worth it. :biggrin: For anyone that likes to send private messages, having an allocation of 100 messages sure beats the heck out of the 25 default limit. It's worth the $2 a month just for that!

Greg, once I recover form the 50 Bazillion dollars I just shelled out on home repairs, I want to donate memberships to a few people. Will there be some way to do that through paypal, or will I need to send you a check and tell you who they are?
 
  • #23
Evo, you are a great person :biggrin:
 
  • #24
But I almost never use the private message feature. Anything else? Well that, and I'm not a hot chick so I never get private messages.
 
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  • #25
The_Professional said:
But I almost never use the private message feature. Anything else? Well that, and I'm not a hot chick so I never get private messages.
Awww, I'll flood your pm box! :-p

Well, you can be invisible when you want. You can change custom avatars, not that I ever change mine. :wink: You get to customize your registered user status (as you had prior to the change). No ads. You get the pleasure of knowing you're supporting PF to keep it available for those that can't pay, and you get that spiffy contributor banner. :biggrin:

You get to join the wild contributor's only parties (well, if we had wild contributor's only parties). :frown:

I've noticed a bunch of new things I can do in user CP, not sure if those are available to non contributors.
 
  • #26
I'm very glad that non-paying members still get to keep their old avatars. :biggrin:


Go Habs!
 
  • #27
Evo said:
You get to join the wild contributor's only parties (well, if we had wild contributor's only parties). :frown:

A real life Physics Forum get together for everybody. How about that? sounds like a good idea :cool:

EDIT - get together for Mentors and Members
 
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  • #28
Dagenais said:
I'm very glad that non-paying members still get to keep their old avatars. :biggrin:


Go Habs!
Maybe Greg should take them away? Hmmm...
 
  • #29
Dagenais said:
I'm very glad that non-paying members still get to keep their old avatars. :biggrin:
Go Habs!

Thanks for bringing that up. Now we have you to THANK FOR when that is taken away.
 
  • #30
Ummm...yeah.
 
  • #31
Zero said:
Ummm...yeah.

haha..I see, shouldn't it say PF Mentor
 
  • #32
I'm more than happy to help the forums in any way I can.

Wish I could do more, but being a poor college student, there is only so much one can do...
 
  • #33
Elkay, I think it is so wonderful when a person so new to the forum makes the effort to contribute!

I've noticed several other relatively new members have also contributed. That is really great.

BTW, you are really cute! :smile:
 
  • #34
Yeah... good times, right? So why don't I see a "PF Contributor" thingy?
 
  • #35
Greg Bernhardt said:
  • View/Post/Manage user notes
What are User Notes?
 
  • #36
A blog/personal journal/diary
 
  • #37
The_Professional said:
A blog/personal journal/diary

does anyone use it? or does it log every word you type?? wait I could just look...
 
  • #38
well, i don't have credit cards or pay pal or a checking acount... how to i do a money order?
 
  • #39
Take $25 plus whatever fee they charge (probably $0.99 or so) down to the post office and buy one.
 
  • #40
loseyourname said:
Take $25 plus whatever fee they charge (probably $0.99 or so) down to the post office and buy one.


Oh, well, I've never done it before. But i think i can handle that. Thanks
 
  • #41
Activation for Premium Membership?

I have just contributed to PF by PP. But smegging adverts are still around and I still can't have an avatar. Do I need to activate the membership somehow or ...?
 
  • #42
Crumbles said:
I have just contributed to PF by PP. But smegging adverts are still around and I still can't have an avatar. Do I need to activate the membership somehow or ...?
It should have been instantaneous. Did you get a confirmation from paypal?
 
  • #43
Evo said:
It should have been instantaneous. Did you get a confirmation from paypal?
Yes I got an instant email notification from PP!

Could it be because the email ad I use on PP is different from the one I use on PF?
 
  • #44
Crumbles said:
Yes I got an instant email notification from PP!

Could it be because the email ad I use on PP is different from the one I use on PF?

Did you go through the built-in upgrade process here at PF or did you just donate to my email address in paypal? I'll manually upgrade your account though.
 
  • #45
Greg Bernhardt said:
Did you go through the built-in upgrade process here at PF or did you just donate to my email address in paypal? I'll manually upgrade your account though.

I used the built-in upgrade function from the menu!
 
  • #46
Okay, I finally decided to splurge! One too many flashing advertisements trying to give me seizures finally convinced me :biggrin:

Now, all I need to do is figure out how to make a picture small enough to use as an avatar.
 
  • #47
YAY! Welcome to the PF Contributors comunity!
 
  • #48
Yeah, but now I'm sitting here wondering where my invitation to the contributors' members-only party is? LOL! :smile:

But since I seem pretty addicted to this site, I think I'll stick around now. I've gotten addicted to other sites that got shut down for lack of funds, so don't want that to happen here...I can't handle withdrawal that well. :wink:

Obviously, I did manage to figure out how to shrink my picture small enough to make into an avatar (some things I'll never understand about computers, like how I can take an image from one program, open it in another, make no changes whatsoever, just re-save it in the new program, and it's magically a new size).
 
  • #49
Did somebody say party? :bugeye: Where?

I think your multisized image is to do with how each program displays it rather than what size it is. Image sizes are measured in pixels and although an image contains a fixed number of pixels, it can be displayed in different sizes on the computer by altering the size of each pixel displayed (in otherwords zooming into the picture).

Well, that's either what you were referring to, or you opened the image in a different program that uses higher JPEG compression, which made the image small in terms of megabytes.
 
  • #50
The second is the one I meant...taking it from 52 kb to about 8 kb just by saving in a different program. But now that I know what I have to do to get it to work, I will have to create some other avatars to rotate once in a while.

I'm still thinking about what a good signature line would be. All these tough decisions come with the responsibility of contributorship. Time to pull out Bartlett's Quotations.
 

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