How does this site make money?

[beetcoin]

There are legions of people here, and probably a lot of them come when a boom happens.. yet I see no ads. How are the costs paid for here?

[SaltySpitoon]

There are ads, you must just be missing them heh.

[beetcoin]

  you're right, i didn't even notice them. they are so well placed that they sit under signatures.. which means they blend in with them.

[maurya78]

Yep

Plus the donations that they got must still serve them well....

[eternalgloom]

Quite a lot of people have donated
You can check it here: https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html

[HeroC]

With adds, and TONS of people wanting to donate, they should have enough. Last time I checked, they had 3,400.

I tried to add a BTCticker image but it gave me this:  

[Sindelar1938]

It doesn't need to, the donations suffice I would think

Right?

[Martijnvdc]

You guys haven't read the thread about "storing some of the forum's money", have you?
This forum has so much money it is even being spread among the top members.