Paul,
even with a lifetime subscription, we’re still able to donate.
Speaking for myself: if the “Buy us a Coffee” banner remains visible, even with a lifetime subscription, I don’t forget to contribute whenever I can 
Jorge
Perhaps my comment was not clear.
I was thinking the button would offer
Buy me a coffee
Subscription for year
Subscription for life
So 3 different options
But thanks also for confirming you can donate also when you are a paid member, been thinking for a while should do it as coming up to 10 years on the site, plus moderation post should set an example to others
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Thank you for the recent donation @Tech_JA 
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Thanks for pointing it out. I’ll see how it can be fixed.
Update: It should be better now.
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I notice you added the buy coffee, good idea. But also you aded the membership option on the left panel for linking to the main site. Which I followed but then got confused free, no problem, member ok extra plus member then yet another link to life member on seperate page. Can you not get them all on one page to make it clearer.
Ok so I could use PayPal (but dont have that) but otherwise it’s in dollar rates, where I use euro, if I make the payment my bank charges me a premium and I guess your bank does the same to convert euro to dollar then dollar to your local currency ? Is there an easier way without the bank making money from us both.
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I’ve noticed it’s quite hard to find complete tutorials on the CLI. I’m thinking bash (which most of the distributions use as their CLI), including the various tools which are useful (such as grep, sed, awk, cut, etc.). A lot of “tutorials” come down to a list of commands, but don’t explain the philosophy or why you’d use the command.
Hence I’d appreciate a complete CLI tutorial which explains things in depth. THEN I’d be willing to pay.
Another thing which could be done is produce a tutorial on the various components of LubreOffice. Yesyes, LO has documentation, but that’s more like a reference than like a consise tutorial. There’s tutorials to get you started, but none of them take you into the guts of LO and teach you how to best utilize LO in a way the makes the user aware of how to get around LO and get things done.
Also, a link database to all kinds of end user FOSS applications would be nice. Example applications to include would be: Paint.net and LibreOffice. It would be well administrated to make sure all projects on it are active and being maintained.
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I will improve the Plus membership page. This is what I would prefer people to have.
There is reference to lifetime membership on the same landing page to notify that it is also an option.
The payments have to be through a ‘middleman’ like PayPal, Stripe etc. And yes, they do charge their fee and then there is (poor) conversion rate. So at the end, I do lose part of the payment in those fee but there is no way to get around it.
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Point noted. These tutorials that you talk about come from personal experience over an extended period of usage. And the problem is that I don’t use LibreOffice extensively. I rely on markdown files for my notes and writing. That is something I could write on, though.
Of course, I can have external contributor for the LibreOffice tutorials. I remember Dimitrios wrote a few of them some years back: LibreOffice 📄 - It's FOSS
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Direct transfer to you ?
For our association we use helloasso.com but that is for French association but when looking around for something suitable I did discover several other options.
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The effort for trying to get around it isn’t worth it.
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I’ve been an It’sFOSS member since November2021, then in June 2023, I decided to become a paying subscriber because of all the value I’ve been receiving, even as a free member. In 2025, I decided to become a lifetime member because I’m a retiree living on a limited income.
You may be wondering what I receive as an It’sFOSS member that has been of such value to me, and the answer is the general attitude of my fellow community members and the friendships that I have developed along the way. Another reason is that I experiment with my computer a lot, and when I learn something new from a particularly intense experiment on my Garuda Mokka GNU/Linux system, the General discussion forum here in the It’sFOSS Community site provides an excellent platform to write about it. Finally, the It’sFOSS community has been so accepting and welcoming since the first time I posted anything here I feel a sense of belonging, of home, that surpasses anything I’ve experienced anywhere else on the Internet.
Ernie
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I just bought a year membership and when i click on the login in link i sign in to its foss where it says im a paying member but not here on the forum and i dont see the star plus members get i might doing it wrong i dont know
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Thank you 
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I’ll put some sort of automation in place to automatically assign Plus member badge.
And I changed the older “pro member” to “plus member” so that it is more consistent.
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I’m sorry, but it’s still somewhat anoying, at least on my mobile.
When I’m on top of a topic view, it’s OK.
But when I scroll down, the Donate link is moved and takes place where the menues are.
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It is OK on my new tablet. Maybe a browser rendering issue ?
The forum is a challenging site for browsers.
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I tried with Samsung and Waterfox, no difference.
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I think it’s a matter of screen size. My mobile is smaller than a bar of chocolate. 
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Does that make it a tablet (of chocolate) sorry English humour 
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