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We have officially migrated to Hometown!
Hey folks! As of just a few minutes ago, we are now on the Hometown fork of Mastodon.Check out the new features we have access here: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometownLet me know if you have any questions, and keep being your lovely selves 🖤
3-Year Anniversary & upcoming plans
Hey folks, happy holidays! This is your server tiger, Somnius, here :3Can you believe it's been 3 years since we started running The Town as a Mastodon instance? I think that's pretty amazing. And I have some fun plans in store soon!The biggest thing: if you've checked our Trello board, I just moved the "Migrate to Hometown" card over to "in progress." This means I'm going to actively look into migrating us over to...
Financials, August 2021
Income Patreon: $105.55 OpenCollective: $2.54 Ko-Fi: $18.14Total: $126.23Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00Total: $53.00Income to Date$3636.48Costs to Date$2460.90Money left over$1175.58---It's the end of the summer, and days are starting to get cooler. I'm settled into my house, and I can finally get started on our Hometown migration! Check out the Trello for more info, and I'll keep you updated on when that will happen. Cheers, all <3
Financials, July 2021
Income Patreon: $110.84 OpenCollective: $2.56 Ko-Fi: $13.24 Liberapay: $50.17Total: $176.81Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00Total: $53.00Income to Date$3510.25Costs to Date$2407.90Money left over$1102.35---Had a nice relaxing vacation but work and house stuff has me a bit bogged down, appreciate all your patience on incoming potential updates <3I wish all of you well!
Financials, June 2021
Income Patreon: $103.00 OpenCollective: $2.54 Ko-Fi: $8.98Total: $114.52Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00Total: $53.00Income to Date$3333.44Costs to Date$2354.90Money left over$978.54
Financials, May 2021
Income Patreon: $103.16 OpenCollective: $2.56 Ko-Fi: $8.96Total: $114.68Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00Total: $53.00Income to Date$3218.92Costs to Date$2301.90Money left over$917.02---Looks like I hopped over a month, my bad!Between day-job work ramping up and moving into my new house, I've been a super busy tiger.However! The Hometown poll is still at the top of my mind, and around 70% of you who voted in the poll voted "yes". That's ...
Financials, April 2021
Income Patreon: $104.75 OpenCollective: $2.54 Ko-Fi: $4.48Total: $111.77Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00 Fastmail: $50.00Total: $103.00Income to Date$3104.24Costs to Date$2248.90Money left over$855.34
Financials, March 2021
Income Patreon: $96.29 OpenCollective: $2.41 Liberapay: $0 Ko-Fi: $13.48Total: $112.18Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00Total: $53.00Income to Date$2992.47Costs to Date$2145.90Money left over$846.57---Hope you all are doing well. Looks like the results in the Hometown poll are shaping up nicely, with most of the folks who voted in favor of moving to it.I extended the deadline for the poll for another week, to give more folks an additional chance to check...
Financials, February 2021
Income Patreon: $98.14 OpenCollective: $20.33 Liberapay: $0 Ko-Fi: $8.98Total: $127.45Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00Total: $53.00Income to Date$2880.29Costs to Date$2092.90Money left over$787.39---Thanks to everyone for keeping us going! It's sincerely appreciated.Cheers, and I hope you all are safe and sound!
Financials, January 2021
Income Patreon: $88.98 OpenCollective: $2.43 Liberapay: $0 Ko-Fi: $11.97Total: $103.38Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00 Stripe Fees: $0.02Total: $53.02Income to Date$2752.84Costs to Date$2039.90Money left over$712.94---Hey all, hope you've had a great start to the year! I have a couple pending tasks for this month:1. Run an instance-only survey about migrating to Hometown2. Add documentation for how to invite new folks3. Add new moderators to our do...
Financials, December 2020
Income Patreon: $180.75 OpenCollective: $50.11 Liberapay: $0 Ko-Fi: $28.20Total: $259.06Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00Total: $53.00Income to Date$2649.46Costs to Date$1986.88Money left over$662.58---It's been… quite the year. In spite of that, Merveilles has been a wonderful refuge from the horrors of the world.A huge thank you to everyone on the instance, donor or no, for continuing to make this space the best corner on the internet.If you hav...
Financials, October - November 2020
Income Patreon: $77.53 OpenCollective: $2.43 Liberapay: $134.79 Ko-Fi: $13.55Total: $228.30Costs DigitalOcean: $107.74 Stripe Transfer Fees: $0.04Total: $107.78Income to Date$2390.40Costs to Date$1933.88Money left over$456.52---Thanks so much for your support, everyone, and I can't wait to see how well we do in the new year. We've got a bright future ahead of us! ✨Next month is this instance's two-year anniversary! Amazing that this...
Financials, August - September 2020
Income Patreon: $179.31 OpenCollective: $4.86 Liberapay: $0 Ko-Fi: $27.90Total: $212.07Costs DigitalOcean: $106.69Total: $106.69Income to Date$2162.10Costs to Date$1826.10Money left over$336.00---The numbers here are a bit higher because this is over 2 months, not just one. Was a little late on this, thanks for your patience! :3
Financials, July 2020
IncomePatreon: $97.27OpenCollective: $22.72Liberapay: $64.14Ko-Fi: $47.12Total: $231.25CostsDigitalOcean: $53.00Money for Devine & Rekka: $431.80Stripe Fee: $0.02Total: $484.82Income to Date$1950.03Costs to Date$1719.41Money left over$230.62-----Hey all! Thanks again for the folks who voted on sending some cash to Devine & Rekka. I'm still thinking up a way to standardize voting on things we should spend money on in the future so that things ...
Financials, June 2020
Donations Patreon: $103.02OpenCollective: $0Liberapay: $0Ko-Fi: $4.48Total: $107.50Infrastructure Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00Total: $53.00Donations to Date $1718.78Infrastructure Costs to Date $1234.59Money left over $484.19---It's been a pretty quiet month for me personally. I hope you all are doing as well as you can and that you're staying safe and healthy.I'll be running a poll soon for what to with our income, stay tuned! :3
Financials, May 2020
Donations Patreon: $106.34OpenCollective: $91.00Liberapay: $69.23Ko-Fi: $41.14Total: $307.71Infrastructure Costs DigitalOcean: $53.00Total: $53.00Donations to Date $1611.28Infrastructure Costs to Date $1181.59Money left over $429.69---Hot dang, you all, thank you so much for the influx of support! I'll use the money you all graciously provided to help ship out the stickers. I'm still working on sending them out since work got a bit nuts l...
Financials, April 2020
Donations$83.25 via PatreonTotal: $83.25Infrastructure CostsDigitalOcean: $52.08Fastmail: $50.50Total: $102.58Donations to Date$1303.57Infrastructure Costs to Date$1128.59Money left over$174.98---Was quite late with this report, thanks for your patience!I never posted on the Patreon, apologies! I asked on the instance a while ago for addresses to send Merveilles stickers to. I've gotten a fair amount of responses since then, and I'm glad ...
Financials, March 2020
Donations $89.53 via PatreonTotal: $89.53Infrastructure Costs Amazon S3: $68.94DigitalOcean: $31.54 Stickermule: $69.44Total: $169.92Donations to Date $1220.32Infrastructure Costs to Date $1026.01Money left over $194.31---Hey there all! These are some pretty stark times we're in, I hope you're staying safe and healthy.A lot of things happened over the past month for the instance. We switched from Amazon's S3 to DigitalOcean's Spac...
Financials, February 2020
Donations$85.51 via PatreonTotal: $85.51Infrastructure CostsAmazon S3: $22.33DigitalOcean: $24.68Gandi: $34.92Total: $81.93Donations to Date$1130.79Infrastructure Costs to Date$856.09Money left over$274.70---It was a pretty great last month, everyone! I realized that the merveilles.town domain was still on my personal Dreamhost account, so I moved that off to a separate Gandi account instead. That should keep things better separated.I'll keep...
Financials: January 2020
Donations$84.59 via PatreonTotal: $84.59Infrastructure CostsAmazon S3: $37.42DigitalOcean: $24.68Total: $62.10Donations to Date $1045.28Infrastructure Costs to Date $774.16Money left over $271.12---Looks like I gotta get more consistent about removing old remote assets to not drive up S3 costs, I'll be doing that shortly.But, thanks again for the amazing help, y'all! Continue on being your lovely selves :D
Financials: December 2019
Donations$87.99 via PatreonTotal: $87.99Infrastructure Costs Amazon S3: $19.09DigitalOcean: $24.68Total: $43.77Donations to Date $960.69Infrastructure Costs to Date $712.06Money left over $248.63---One thing I forgot to correct last time: I got 25 cents less in Patreon donations than I reported last month, but the "Money left over" amount this month is the exact same as what's in the bank account for the instance!However, the instance...
Financials: November 2019
Donations$72.54 via PatreonTotal: $72.54Infrastructure CostsAmazon S3: $39.86DigitalOcean: $44.54Total: $84.40 Donations to Date$872.95Infrastructure Costs to Date$668.29Money left over$204.66---The DigitalOcean costs spiked a bit because of the memory issue we were having in the middle of the month that I didn't resolve until about a week later. However, that's all fixed now and we should see our costs go back down to the $24/month that ...
Financials: October 2019
Donations$76.64 via PatreonTotal: $76.64Infrastructure CostsAmazon S3: $27.10DigitalOcean: $24.68Total: $51.78Donations to Date$800.41Infrastructure Costs to Date$583.89Money left over$216.52---Was kind of surprised at the S3 jump, but it’s definitely within parameters for now. Thanks again for your donations, denizens of Merveilles, and have a pleasant start to November! :3
Make sure to vote!
Hey all! Reminder to vote on the previous post. You can find the poll here, or click on the embedded link with this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/30553962I'd love to get your input to see if we should move forward with local posting or not.The poll on the instance is finishing up tomorrow, but I'll run this poll for a few more days to give you all some more time as well. Thanks again! :3(Update: Embedded the wrong link, oops! This h...
Local-Only Posting
Hey there everyone! After getting a few messages about this, I have been doing a bit of research about local-only posting and what it would look like to implement that feature on our instance.See my thread about it here: https://merveilles.town/@somnius/102967788986849037To gather more insight on the level of interest in this feature, I'm running a poll both on the instance and also on here, for you all!Here's a breakdown of my research s...
Financials: September 2019
Donations$74.38 via PatreonTotal: $74.38Infrastructure CostsAmazon S3: $18.20DigitalOcean: $24.68Total: $42.88Donations to Date$723.77Infrastructure Costs to Date$532.11Money left over$191.66---We've been doing quite well since starting the Patreon and things are continuing to look up! Thanks for being your lovely selves, and I hope you all are having a great start to the spooky month! 👻
Financials: August 2019
Donations$76.33 via PatreonTotal: $76.33Infrastructure CostsAmazon S3: $20.16DigitalOcean: $24.68Total: $44.84Donations to Date$649.39Infrastructure Costs to Date$489.23Money left over$160.16---The to-date amounts include the costs & donations since the server was started in December 2018. Amounts are in USD.
Thank you!
Hey there everyone! Somnius here. It's been a few months since this Patreon was started, and I've been blown away from the response. With the current amount of money we have, the instance can be completely self-sustained.From here on out, I'll be including the financial reports on Patreon so backers can see them. I'll keep everyone involved in any new developments and such as well.Thanks again everyone, and I hope you enjoy The To...
