It goes towards keeping me motivated to keep the site going...
I'm a bit surprised by your question to be honest. Maybe it comes out of all the Patreon / Kickstarter and other popular crowdfunding platforms. The donation run is not funding, it's to support the person behind a website whatever it is they may want to use the money for.
I put the Ipad idea there just to have some kind of goal (I'm not 100% sure I want to upgrade mine yet as it runs decently for my typical use, I'm tempted to wait out for a newer model too).
The costs for shared hosting and yearly domain name renewal are fairly low, less than 20 € monthly. That's obviously not the only "cost" for running the Kanji Koohii website and forum.
I'm a bit surprised by your question to be honest. Maybe it comes out of all the Patreon / Kickstarter and other popular crowdfunding platforms. The donation run is not funding, it's to support the person behind a website whatever it is they may want to use the money for.
I put the Ipad idea there just to have some kind of goal (I'm not 100% sure I want to upgrade mine yet as it runs decently for my typical use, I'm tempted to wait out for a newer model too).
The costs for shared hosting and yearly domain name renewal are fairly low, less than 20 € monthly. That's obviously not the only "cost" for running the Kanji Koohii website and forum.