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How is funding? (self.meta)
submitted 1 month ago by towerful to c/meta
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I've been here a while, and I appreciate the community and the defed/hiding list.
I also know programming.dev contributes to upstream Lemmy repos.

I saw another post about another instances funding.
Which reminded me....

Is programming.dev on track for funding?
Need some more donations?
Is there a runway?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

From the sidebar https://github.com/sponsors/snowe2010/

[–] towerful 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Thanks.

I would like to have some help with server and maintenance costs. Currently the site costs about $2,100 USD a year to run, but a large portion of that was for the initial domain name purchase which was around $580 USD.

Thankfully we've grown pretty slowly so it hasn't cost so much so far, but it will begin to add up soon. @snowe2010

@snowe2010's goal is to earn $200 per month

58% towards $200 per month goal

Can only sponsor through GitHub?

[–] lysdexic 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

$1500/year sounds an awful lot for a site that barely receives any updates even from the public.

What efforts are being developed to lower operational costs?

[–] snowe 4 points 1 month ago

barely receives any updates even from the public.

what do you mean by this?

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