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The decision is Jarrod's. He owns this site and the content is his or the legal entity that is brickboard.com owns the content.
I've worked in IT as primarily a technical writer / analyst on and off for decades. When off it is in manufacturing.
The effort on Jarrod's is at least exhausting when he has to update the JavaScript, maintain the operation schema to allow all or most of the services to continue. I imagine the content size is in the couple of terrabytes size at least.
The effort, time, and costs to migrate the entire site content from his servers to the cloud service was no small project I'll bet.
Since 2010 to today, I'd been exhorting, persuading, cajoling primarily facebook users of the three or four large RWD Volvo forums. Large as in some 10k to 20k members.
These facebook forums are far more active and the facebook publication platforms may it easy. Yet easier ain't better.
The question / original posts and responses there on many posts threads there are an echo chamber promoting and expanding the mythos of RWD Volvo care. User here respond with general guidance to remove the mythos. Though there exists many user asking useful questions with useful responses. Though I drive them here suggesting Spook and others will respond to your 700-900 questions. Or see this 700-900 series FAQ page to begin your diagnosis to find the root cause of your check engine light or poor tune / emissions test or info on the AW7x auto transmission.
Jarrod, maybe raise the prominence of donation requests. I see the  button on the ClassAds page in the form container. Maybe place this more prominently when site users place new posts or when responding to posts? With the dire nature of the consequence as you have announced. I wish I'd suggested it sooner to you.
You know the schema you built as well as legal consequence. Also, user may become numb to the request.
Like Click here to donate now:
Maybe rotating images or presentation like the chance image on the homepage.
I do not see Turbobricks.com asking for donations. Though I do not attend that site often at all.
Rob Bareiss, a brickboard and I guess Turbobricks site member, is the admin for the:
Volvo 240, 740 and 940 owners club
https://www.facebook.com/groups/23765538560/
Some 17K members.
Maybe we can ask these site to make mention? Maybe help drive more members here. In a raised voice versus my begging the user to so they can get help from those WAY smarter than me about 240 like the mighty, wise, and powerful Art Benstein, Phil Machine Man, Spoook, Amarin, Michael Yount, Mr. Starkie, and innumerable others of sage and wise guidance so we can keep em going.
I do mean to ask Jarrod if I could be curator of the 700-900 series FAQ to produce the next version of the 700-900 FAQ in the last some-odd years. The FAQ needs an update.
I've started several 200-series FAQs in MS Word and LibreOffice. Did not go well as both tools don't handle large doc file sizes with many embedded images though that was years ago. And then I started with a wiki server and employment issues drained away my motivation. Yet I'd been employed for 10 months out of the last 42 or so months since coming back to toilet St. Louis, the dumb town; donations are few for me now. I was not employed for nearly four years while in Spokane. Else, I'd donate more regularly. Had this joke of a career I possess been a regular engagement for the past three decades, you bet I'd donate. I have also disabled ad-block on brickboard.com in the modern browsers I use
As Klaus .sig states "Keeping it running is better than buy new".
Klaus and other may better know the large AWD/FWD facebook sites.
Enough about me.
Donate. Just donate. Wish we'd known the dire brickboard funding state was then. I'd be glad to make mention.
And you new users. Donate, please.
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