A few quick notes on discussions the administrator team has had, since we’ve fielded a lot of questions in these particular fields. We’re posting this both for transparency and to help us limit the load of having to respond to each of you individually.

  • We would like to become an official nonprofit at some point, but there is a cost associated with this, we are not lawyers, and we might need to change where/how we collect donations to do so.
  • We’ve upgraded the server approximately 7 times now. We’re trying to balance fiscal responsibility with server costs. We are aware that digital ocean isn’t the cheapest server and we are trying to be conservative with estimates and give ourselves extra runtime at whatever tier we are on. We’re also hoping that the upcoming lemmy version will solve a lot of our CPU-bound issues.

We are aware of the following bugs:

  • the “report created” indicator flashes in the bottom left corner for some users randomly, even non-moderator users
  • sometimes, briefly or without a refresh, the username in the top corner will not be your own; as far as we can tell this is purely cosmetic and is not a security issue
  • sometimes the post you’re in changes to another post for no clear reason
    • Sam Vimes@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      The approximate yearly budget and estimated annual budget are quite different, what are those two numbers representing? Unrelated: I really appreciate what you’re making happen here, and I really look forward to being a part of it.

      • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgMEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Good question! I don’t quite know but here’s what I think.

        Estimated Annual Budget is

        1. All active monthly subscriptions. Multiply by 12.
        2. All active yearly subscriptions.
        3. All one-time subscriptions in the past year.
        4. All inactive monthly subscriptions that have contributed in the past year. https://docs.opencollective.com/help/collectives/budget#budget-calculations

        Approximate yearly budget is what they we’ll spend for the year based on past transactions and trends? Note that this month will definitely be quite a bit more expensive than all previous ones (Probably something like ~500$) so this approximation is most definitely wrong.

      • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        The approximate yearly budget and estimated annual budget are quite different, what are those two numbers representing?

        estimated annual we have no control over, i’d note in addition to the other reply, whereas i update approximate yearly with our hosting costs per month x12. we’ve had to upgrade a bunch this month so it’s a “best estimate of what our expenses would normally be” right now, though (and i just updated it to reflect more accurately where we’ll probably be when not needing to accommodate the big reddit surge)