Well, first off - thanks for the consideration! It's not often we get folk who appreciate the economics of the situation, and willingly offer to pay more.
There is no requirement to get multiple subscriptions for multiple sites, although if you want to donate some more drinking vouchers to the cause, it would be greatly appreciated. We've discussed having a Donate button somewhere on these pages, and will probably go ahead and do it soon, as a short term measure.
The other thing we've been discussing is a Premium Support forum. At the moment, we pretty much attempt to answer all questions, including helping people with actual coding of custom JavaScript, PHP and templates. And of course the "PM me a login" type stuff, sorting out pilot error, or other issues which go above and beyond basic "how to" and bug fixing.
But we're at the point that we just can't continue that level of support for the basic Subscription service. One knotty JavaScript issue can take several hours to sort out, which (even at the absolute minimum hourly nut Rob and myself need to make to survive) exhausts a single annual Subscription fee. Heck, just logging in to someones site and fixing some basic setup mistake can take half an hour or more, especially when dealing with foreign language sites on slow connections (just navigating a foreign language site tends to get very frustrating for me, having no natural language skills beyond basic English!).
So we're currently hammering some ideas out on how we can provide a Premium level of service, at a cost that won't bankrupt our users, but allows us to pay our rent and put food on the table.
It will most likely be a monthly subscription rather than annual, pitched at folk who are either a) working on a specific (and non-trivial) implementation and need a higher level of support in the short term, or b) developers who use Fabrik to do contract work for multiple clients, and/or themselves run multiple sites, who would otherwise exceed any kind of 'reasonable use / single site' policy on the basic Subscription.
If you have any suggestions or thoughts on this, we'd love to hear them.
I suspect that whatever we do won't be popular, as it will reduce the level of support we provide for free and for the basic Subscription. But I think most folk will realize that we simply can't continue the way we are and expect to survive, even with the best will in the world.
-- hugh