Are you a representative of Snooty Sims? If not, it would have been good to credit them with that news item instead of just copying and pasting it from their front page.
Yes there is nothing wrong with keeping some in reserve or for improvements. But I still think it's good to show when immediate costs have been met, because some people on restricted incomes still like to donate generously if they think their favorite site needs it, and showing a meter will let them know if they don't need to donate again for the time being.
The colour scheme and the lack of alphabeticalisation of the creator sections are two things I do NOT miss about the old site. Though I look forward to a change from this, so I don't have to make the huge effort of checking the name in the top left
In some ways it might be less confusing (especially if there is no way of knowing if the recipient's mailbox accepted the PM) if PM facilities were simply withdrawn altogether and people put an alternative means of contact into their sigs or allowed their email address to be seen in their profiles?
Jmtmom, on the assumption that the first rush on this file has passed and it's just a few downloads a day, I can find room for it on one of my webspaces and you can link to it there. Let me know.
Can't you bung the file elsewhere and just link to it from your thread on here? It will still be just as easy for users. It's not a good idea to have huge files as forum attachments anyway due to the overhead of database server resources. Best to hand it off to the browser and http server really.