Our #WritingExchange community has been running for almost eight years! But as our little writing space has grown, so have our hosting costs.
Many members of the community have contributed to help keep this space sustainable -- if you have, thank you so much!
But after catching up on our accounting today, we're essentially back at $0 in our Writing Exchange fund, with only 45% of our annual hosting costs covered by current donors.
As always, this community is financially supported by my tiny company, @write_as, so we'll always be able to keep the lights on. But for now we'll have to fall back on that funding until we can make up for this shortfall.
Ultimately though, we always want to keep this community independently funded directly by the people who share and socialize here.
So if you have the means and would like to contribute, especially if you aren't already a @write_as customer, we'd really appreciate anything you can donate, whether recurring or one time.
https://opencollective.com/writingexchange
Either way, thank you all for continuing to write here every day, and making this place what it is!
@matt Donated! Thanks for the reminder
@SJHoodlet thank you so much!!
@matt I appear to be one of the server’s top donors. I don’t think I can increase my $10/month payment at this time (the life of a freelancer), but I’ll keep it going as long as possible!
@ernie no worries at all Ernie, it's already a huge help. Really appreciate you contributing, and being part of the community for so long!
@matt I sent a one-time donation for now, but I'll see if I can do more! :)
@alxd anything is a huge help, thank you so much!
@matt I just went monthly a small but hopefully helpful contribution.
@AlexWolfe absolutely, that's a great help! Thank you so much!
@matt do you have technical operations needs? I'm a senior sure and can help on tech part if ever you need to lower cost while increase efficiency or reliability.
@grumpycat appreciate it, but no need! All maintenance is handled by our host, masto.host
@matt Donated. This is a wonderful instance, & thanks for running it.