I made a small donation, and if you like it here, I think you should (if you can) too.
I am one of many that have sought out alternatives to Reddit. I really like the feel of how this community works. I’ve not seen them push the need for support, but I’m sure they’re feeling it. It’s clear they’ve made changes in the past couple of days to help support the growth & load.
That said, servers and bandwidth aren’t free, and they’ve seen a massive wave of influx.
Sidebar says: “Our instance is 100% user-funded - help us keep it running by donating.”
Click here for the Donate Link
Here’s the Open Collective Page with more info.
I’m not affiliated with Beehaw in any way other than being part of the exodus from Reddit, and I like it here.
*This is my first actual non-comment post, so here’s hoping I didn’t mess this up.
Where can we find expense information? I just donated but I would love to see transparent financial data. Maybe it’s already out there I just couldn’t find it…
There are frequent updates in https://beehaw.org/c/support
There are some excellent updates on finances posted by the mods. They do a very good job of keeping us informed. When I started Beehaw’s server was $12 or so per month. Moving up to the $18 or so per month version was a big deal. With the influx from Rexxit they’ve expanded the server something like 7 times, and are now at the $55 or so per month level. Last I remember, they said we have $600 or so in reserves, so Beehaw is sitting pretty for a few months.
I would assume the influx will continue and the server will need to increase again.
On the open collective, you can see all the expenses we pay. Worth noting that the current upgrades to hosting this month are not account for.
This month we expect our hosting costs to be between 96$ and 336$ because we’re being prorated on Digital Ocean and trying to scale to keep the site running smooth.
Thanks for the response! Glad to be supporting the community.