This is the first of the monthly financial reports. This one is short and sweet; I’ll provide more details next time.

These costs include hosting for:

  1. discuss.online (lemmy)
  2. discuss.online (matrix)
  3. wiki.discuss.online (open wiki)
  4. utter.online (mastodon)
  5. social.photo (pixelfed)
  6. Sublinks.org (sublinks)
  7. participating.online(wiki)

Expenses for November

  • Hosting: $575.32
  • Github: $436.16
  • Email: $21.45
  • Total: $1,032.93

Income for November

  • OpenCollective: $65
  • Patreon: $15.11
  • Total: $80.11

Year-to-date

  • Year-to-date total expenses: $4,087.63
  • Year-to-date total income: $454.77
  • Year-to-date balance: -$3632.86

Donations… if you can spare it

    • jgrimOPMA
      3·
      1 year ago

      It was expensive because many developers started on sublinks, and I’ve been paying annual subscriptions. Next month it’ll be less (depending on how many join)

    • dresdenEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah… I wasn’t expecting it to cost so much. It’s near the price of the hosting of all the services combined.

  • infinitevalenceEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Can you put your cost/loss as a graph on the side bar where the donation buttons are? Wonder if that would help some.

    One other thing, i would not show the YTD as a large number like that can actually prevent people from donating as they will feel its hopeless.

    Also, still offering free hosting on my home server, if/where it helps.

    • jgrimOPMA
      1·
      1 year ago

      I thought about that. I’m not trying to discourage people from joining the site though in fear that I’ll shut it off if I don’t make enough to run it.

  • rar
    2·
    1 year ago

    Man, I didn’t expect it to be so high, especially the Github part.

    • jgrimOPMA
      2·
      1 year ago

      It was high for just this month because I bought a ton of annual subscriptions for new developers. It’s going to be zero for a while now.