Hi everyone 
Today I’ve brought a topic that comes up from time to time. I’ll be completely honest with you, as always…
Over the past few years, foreign vape shops and websites have been contacting us one after another. They would gladly pay significant, fixed monthly sums to place their ads or links, for example, in the sidebar. This money would immediately solve all of the site’s financial problems.
Yet, I turn them down one after another. Why?
Because domestic regulation is very strict. If we post a link or a banner on Vaperina, where we advertise, promote a webshop, the authorities can block the Vaperina domain with a single stroke of a pen, or impose a fine on us that we would never be able to pay. I cannot risk that over 6 years of hard work and our Community’s home vanish in an instant. We choose security over easy money.
But let’s look at the other side, the reality, which is damn disappointing.
While, without exaggeration, we do the most for the domestic vaper community – we not only maintain this platform, but also the Petition and the Vaperina Fact fact-checking page against misinformation – the cash register, as usual, is empty.
Let’s take a look around the domestic vape sphere. Honestly, there’s not much to look at anymore, unfortunately, but there is, for example, Tamás Fehér, a “YouTuber”, who receives magnitudes more monthly support from his viewers – and I’ll just mention in passing (within a lottery draw for years, where incomprehensible sums used to go to support) – and who does essentially nothing for the community’s advocacy, infrastructure, or simply in its interest.
What’s our situation? For 6 years, the few thousand forints monthly coming from donations has remained practically unchanged. This isn’t even enough for the platform’s basic server bills, let alone for the Petition, developments, or the Fact page, AI, etc. Month after month, we make calculations from our own family budget, and the math almost never adds up. This, in this form, is unsustainable and unfair.
Vaperina is not a profit-oriented machine, but our common home. But maintaining a home isn’t free. We want this platform to remain independent and survive. We won’t sell your security for advertisements, but we can no longer afford to maintain it out of our own pockets…
Of course, there are a few people who steadfastly support Vaperina monthly, whether for a few months now or for years. We can’t thank them enough for what they put into this and for truly supporting real value! Vaperina still exists because of them! Thank you to them! 
