Hi all,
You will notice on the first page that we have launched supporter memberships.
The purpose of this membership is that those that wants to are able to support shipspotting.com financially.
In return you get for example ad-free surfing of the whole shipspotting.com website, and the possibility to test out new beta functionality before it's launched in public. More will be added in time, but we try to not block any basic/current features for members and photographers out.
The generated income will be used to improve the site even further. Example: We have in late 2014 invested a lot of money in new faster and more secure servers. We would like to continue by adding more servers, load balancing and failover systems, so that the site won't be offline due to hardware or similar crashes. This will of course be of benefit of all our photographers, members and visitors, and not only those that are paying members.
In the future we might add more features to the paid membership that we have to pay for, which right now isn't possible.
Questions and support around this service should be sent through our regular contact page by chosing the subject "Supporter Membership".
Regards,
Henrik