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Beehaw Support

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Support and meta community for Beehaw. Ask your questions about the community, technical issues, and other such things here.

A brief FAQ for lurkers and new users can be found here.

Our September 2024 financial update is here.

For a refresher on our philosophy, see also What is Beehaw?, The spirit of the rules, and Beehaw is a Community


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.


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obligatory preface: we're 100%-user funded and everything you donate to us specifically goes to the website, or any outside labor we pay to do something for us. you can donate here.

overall expenses this month: $230.81

$134.40 for Digital Ocean hosting, which can be further subdivided into

  • $112.00 for hosting the site itself
  • $22.40 for backups
  • $0.00 for site snapshots

$28.80 for Hive, an internal chat platform we've set up (also being hosted on Digital Ocean)

  • $24.00 for hosting Hive
  • $4.80 for backups
  • $0.00 for snapshots

~$39.16 for email functionality, which can be further subdivided into

  • $35/mo for Mailgun (handles outbound emails, so approval/denial/notifications emails; also lets us not get marked as spam)
  • ~$4.16/mo ($50/yr, already paid in full) for Fastmail (handles all inbound emails)

$29.18 for BackBlaze (redundant backup system that's standalone from Digital Ocean)

overall contributions this month: $596.28

  • all contributions this month were monthly donations.

total end of month balance: $5,470.13

expense runway, assuming no further donations

  • assuming expenses like ours this month: we have about two years of runway

finance history

July August September October November
Contributions $3,870.44 $1,310.90 $1,033.82 $691.85 $596.28
Expenses $566.98 $523.79 $264.50 $230.81 $231.54
Difference +$3,303.46 +$787.11 +$769.32 +$461.04 +$364.74
Balance $3,591.33 $4,347.79 $4,701.66 $5,198.47 $5,470.13
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Cool beans! Thanks as always for the update.