It's more than the average FA user, I'm sure. Still, they're $60,000 short and donations appear to be slowing, and they can't expect to do one of these every month to get another $20,000.
One path forward might be to take a slice of Patreon/SubscribeStar's market. IB had a system whereby you could sell prints and digital downloads - probably the latter would be best to focus on nowadays. Some people will clearly pay to support their favourite content creators. But if FA goes down that route there's likely to be far more scrutiny by payment processors of the content being purchased, whereas right now it appears less transactional.
It's more than the average FA user, I'm sure. Still, they're $60,000 short and donations appear to be slowing, and they can't expect to do one of these every month to get another $20,000.
One path forward might be to take a slice of Patreon/SubscribeStar's market. IB had a system whereby you could sell prints and digital downloads - probably the latter would be best to focus on nowadays. Some people will clearly pay to support their favourite content creators. But if FA goes down that route there's likely to be far more scrutiny by payment processors of the content being purchased, whereas right now it appears less transactional.