Well, the main thing that I'm worried about is this: If we have to pay for one section of the site, like paying to post in a specific gallery for instance, will it end there? of next year will we have to pay a separate fee to post, another fee to view the galleries, a fee to be able to post free stuff, another to be able to download... I know this is kind of paranoid, but just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.... Personally, I'm not married to the idea of a yearly membership fee, I'd just rather see that happen than have to pay so much per month for "perks". And I'm not asking for people to pay to see your art Xtincion, I'm asking people to dig a little out of their pockets each YEAR, once a year, for a few reasons: So that Ed and Jack don't have to shoulder the monetary burden of this place alone, and because, well, it's worth a few dollars a year. Think about how much you've gotten from this site in the past MONTH. What freestuff have you downloaded? What new techniques have you learned? What cool pictures have you seen? How many new people have you connected with and talked to? Learned from? Taught? Now multiply that by 12 months, a whole year's worth of stuff. That's not worth a few dollars to you?