[Taiki]

That kind of annoys me when the people who start sites like that won't use their own money to build it and rely on donations..? Why should I donate to something that isn't even built? I would rather see the owners invest their own money into the site so they're more likely to keep it going. If they get the whole site funded on donations, I feel like they're more likely to abandon it because they didn't have to sacrifice anything to get it going... but that could just be me. Like... if a teenager is given a car for free, they're probably more likely to not take care of it as opposed to if they had to work for a few years to earn enough money to buy one. *shrug* If I started an avatar site, I would build at least the necessities first and open it for beta testing before accepting ANY kind of monetary contributions.

Though I think I saw on their blog that you had to donate to even get access to their beta? And that was a year and a half ago and no beta. Sites can do what they want but I wouldn't give them my hard earned money in those situations. I gave some money to Malthea years ago when they were doing that and even they haven't opened.