TSS42 wrote:I still don't understand why we need the charity status at all. Why can't the mods simply collect donations and pay whatever tax is due out of that donation?
The original purpose of the charity status was not just to run the forum but to fund some other things. It was also so that we didn't have the same problems we had at htlal where a single person controls the information. The idea was a charity has trustees which can change and the organisation can continue even if a couple of people leave. Also a charity can employ people to do things like support, upgrade and maintenance so you are not reliant upon volunteers all the time. You can also pay people to do coding, or customisations or even create content like courses, etc.
So yes, we will change it so we just collect enough money to run the site and avoid putting a tax burden on the mods, but a charity would have been better.