It's kinda sad to see this forum head into this direction, I get all the haters and everything reporting. And yeah that sucks, but this feels more like a money grab then anything else (Yeah I know you can get Creds through interacting but i prefer to interact on dev pages). But I just use the latest page as a lookout for dev updates that I support rather then flood my email or look through every website individually.
As for the donation for the "Latest Updates Page" I don't know what magical, new, out of this world idea or setup your code monkey is coming out with. But your Latest Updates page already works great for keeping in touch with releases (so you might as well save yourself 1500$). You could also save money on Hosts by having people upload screenshots to external image hosts.
Well anyways, My 2 cents.
Adios it was fun while it lasted.