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@feddit.ukWelcome to this months financial report.
Everything is still ticking along nicely, so I'll make this short and sweet. If there's something else you want to know about all this then feel free to ask in the comments.
As can be seen from our graph on Open Collective we got £43.76 in and spent £49.99:
However, that's not the complete picture - the various outgoings are listed in the spreadsheet but to break it down further:
Hosting remains unchanged (total after VAT €40.68 - £34.74):
In addition I've been reimbursed £10.57 for earlier hosting payments. This is the penultimate one of these. So, after next month the contributions will cover the outgoings.
Since Tom handed over the instance, we've largely been focused on ensuring the site is working properly and that the bills get paid. This is now all working smoothly and, as a thank you for sticking with us and generously supporting the instance, we've been working on a few things. First up, we've added new frontends. We're looking into other changes and hope to also add some perks for contributors too. With the latter in mind, I will be working through everyone who has donated and linking them to their feddit.uk usernames. If your's isn't obvious then contact me either here or on Matrix (the secure message button in my profile).
Previous reports:
Happy to announce we've finally setup some alternative frontends.
Photon might be flaky, we're on a release candidate because of issue I was running into using it in Firefox. It's also what I'm using to write this. If you notice any issues, feel free to let us know.
I've posted the same thing twice to !raining@sh.itjust.works and it doesn't federate back.
I posted it again from my lemmings.world account and itjust.works 😉.
I can't see the instances on either block list, is there a problem here or is automod striking again? (btw, I still have problems with large posts not coming through from !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com)
As can be seen from our Open Collective page, we built up a war chest in our first round of fundraising that almost covers a year's worth of hosting and we still have solid monthly donations:
However, this doesn't provide a full breakdown of our costs, so here are the details:
Hosting (total after VAT €40.68 - £34.09):
So, as we received £39.31 this month our monthly donations are covering the hosting costs. As we went for a server with ample specifications these costs should remain the same for the time being.
In addition, before our fund-raiskng, I paid for hosting as we were preparing for a move to a new instance and then, after a quick change of plans, the current server. So there were four payments and I am submitting one repayment each month. This month was £11.78.
Following an earlier request, I have broken down the outgoings in a spreadsheet, which can be found here. That should help explain what the various costs have been and the payments that have been made to me as well as the ones due.
If anyone has any other questions then fire away. I've tried to keep everything concise but informative, however, I may have missed something.
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Hi everyone, I just wanted to ask if there is any reason why UK_Politics on Feddit has substantially less content compared to UK_Politics on Reddit?
I'd love to only use Feddit but I find myself starting with Feddit and reading the stories/articles quickly and then checking Reddit to see other content. This annoys me (and maybe many others) as I would love to get completely away from Reddit.
Is it purely down to less people on Feddit vs Reddit? or some other reason?
Is there any way we could 'sync' with Reddit to get the same content? I'm not bothered with the discussion parts of it I'd just like to get the stories and articles (which would hopefully add more discussion on Feddit if we got them)
I'm still getting some federation weirdness, but this issue seems to be to do with general federation rather than particular actions.
This community: https://feddit.uk/c/lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Refuses to update! Some posts have been edited but the edits don't come through. New posts are added but the only way I can get them to come through to feddit.uk is to search for the full original URL.
Is there an issue here? Or is it just being very slow?
As GA was just breaking things, I was staring at the rather bare bones Bad Gateway error page and thought: we really need custom error pages. My favourite example is IMDb that uses movie quotes, but there are many others, and we could definitely make ours distinctly British. So I am opening the floor to suggestions - perhaps a slice of UK life ("popped down the shop for more beans", we may be able to get a maintenance page in, so something like road works) or some Carry On sauce ("Oo missus, the server has gone down on you, no extra charge") or Pythonesque or... something else. People won't see them often but it should, hopefully, get a smile when it does all go tits up (which sounds like something we could use).
Common errors:
Or if.you have a good idea for a rare one, or you have a personal favourite error code that's not being catered for, then ask and we can add it to the list.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/13627155
We're going to try to make the leap forward today. There will be some downtime while we attempt to do this. Rollback will be around 3pm if things are not working as expected.