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November 2023 profit/loss (discuss.online)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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:

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

GitHub is more expensive than I thought

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I'm also surprised and understand now the real reward of self hosting Git

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months 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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I can understand that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months 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.