Hey folks! As of just a few minutes ago, we are now on the Hometown fork of Mastodon.
Check out the new features we have access here: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
Let me know if you have any questions, and keep being your lovely selves π€
2022-04-04 05:10:25 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, happy holidays! This is your server tiger, Somnius, here :3
Can you believe it's been 3 years since we started running The Town as a Mastodon instance? I think that's pretty amazing. And I have some fun plans in store soon!
The biggest thing: if you've checked our Trello board, I just moved the "Migrate to Hometown" card over to "in progress." This means I'm going to actively look into migrating us over to Hometown in the upcoming week. Once I have plans in place, I'll set a date and let you lovely folks know whe...
2021-12-26 10:59:21 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
Total: $126.23
Costs
Total: $53.00
Income to Date
$3636.48
Costs to Date
$2460.90
Money left over
$1175.58
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It's the end of the summer, and days are starting to get cooler. I'm settled into my house, and I can finally get start...
2021-09-19 22:27:44 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
Total: $176.81
Costs
Total: $53.00
Income to Date
$3510.25
Costs to Date
$2407.90
Money left over
$1102.35
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Had a nice relaxing vacation but work and house stuff has me a bit bogged down, appreciate all you...
2021-08-10 07:09:51 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
Total: $114.52
Costs
Total: $53.00
Income to Date
$3333.44
Costs to Date
$2354.90
Money left over
$978.54
Income
Total: $114.68
Costs
Total: $53.00
Income to Date
$3218.92
Costs to Date
$2301.90
Money left over
$917.02
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Looks like I hopped over a month, my bad!
Between day-job work ramping up and moving into my new house, I've bee...
2021-06-09 06:20:07 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
Total: $111.77
Costs
Total: $103.00
Income to Date
$3104.24
Costs to Date
$2248.90
Money left over
$855.34
2021-06-09 06:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
Total: $112.18
Costs
Total: $53.00
Income to Date
$2992.47
Costs to Date
$2145.90
Money left over
$846.57
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Hope you all are doing well. Looks like the results in the 2021-04-23 06:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Income
Total: $127.45
Costs
Total: $53.00
Income to Date
$2880.29
Costs to Date
$2092.90
Money left over
$787.39
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Thanks to everyone for keeping us going! It's sincerely appreciated.
Cheers, and I hope y...
2021-03-22 04:23:10 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
Total: $103.38
Costs
Total: $53.02
Income to Date
$2752.84
Costs to Date
$2039.90
Money left over
$712.94
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Hey all, hope you've had a great start to the year! I have a couple...
2021-02-16 06:39:34 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
Total: $259.06
Costs
Total: $53.00
Income to Date
$2649.46
Costs to Date
$1986.88
Money left over
$662.58
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It's been⦠quite the year. In spite of that, Merveilles has been a wonderful refuge from th...
2021-01-13 05:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
Total: $228.30
Costs
Total: $107.78
Income to Date
$2390.40
Costs to Date
$1933.88
Money left over
$456.52
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Thanks so much for your support, everyone, and I ca...
2020-12-03 06:50:46 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
Total: $212.07
Costs
Total: $106.69
Income to Date
$2162.10
Costs to Date
$1826.10
Money left over
$336.00
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The numbers here are a bit higher because this is over 2 months, not just one. Was a little ...
2020-10-21 08:17:28 +0000 UTC View PostIncome
Patreon: $97.27
OpenCollective: $22.72
Liberapay: $64.14
Ko-Fi: $47.12
Total: $231.25
Costs
DigitalOcean: $53.00
Money for Devine & Rekka: $431.80
Stripe Fee: $0.02
Total: $484.82
Income to Date
$1950.03
Costs to Date
$1719.41
Money left over
$230.62
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Hey all! Thanks again for the folks who voted on sending some cash to Devine & Rekka. I'm still thinking up a wa...
2020-08-25 02:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
Patreon: $103.02
OpenCollective: $0
Liberapay: $0
Ko-Fi: $4.48
Total: $107.50
Infrastructure Costs
DigitalOcean: $53.00
Total: $53.00
Donations to Date
$1718.78
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$1234.59
Money left over
$484.19
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It's been a pretty quiet month for me personally. I hope you all are doing as well as you can and that you're stay...
2020-07-21 03:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
Patreon: $106.34
OpenCollective: $91.00
Liberapay: $69.23
Ko-Fi: $41.14
Total: $307.71
Infrastructure Costs
DigitalOcean: $53.00
Total: $53.00
Donations to Date
$1611.28
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$1181.59
Money left over
$429.69
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Hot dang, you all, thank you so much for the influx of support! I'll use the money you all graciously pro...
2020-06-16 05:22:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Donations
$83.25 via Patreon
Total: $83.25
Infrastructure Costs
DigitalOcean: $52.08
Fastmail: $50.50
Total: $102.58
Donations to Date
$1303.57
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$1128.59
Money left over
$174.98
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Was quite late with this report, thanks for your patience!
I never posted on the Patreon, apologies! I asked on the instance a while ago for addre...
2020-05-25 01:02:19 +0000 UTC View PostDonations $89.53 via Patreon
Total: $89.53
Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $68.94
DigitalOcean: $31.54
Stickermule: $69.44
Total: $169.92
Donations to Date
$1220.32
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$1026.01
Money left over
$194.31
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Hey there all! These are some pretty stark times we're in, I hope you're staying safe and healthy.
A lot of things happe...
2020-04-22 04:07:14 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
$85.51 via Patreon
Total: $85.51
Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $22.33
DigitalOcean: $24.68
Gandi: $34.92
Total: $81.93
Donations to Date
$1130.79
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$856.09
Money left over
$274.70
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It was a pretty great last month, everyone! I realized that the merveilles.town domain was still on my personal Dreamhost account, so I ...
2020-03-08 05:49:38 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
$84.59 via Patreon
Total: $84.59
Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $37.42
DigitalOcean: $24.68
Total: $62.10
Donations to Date
$1045.28
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$774.16
Money left over
$271.12
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Looks like I gotta get more consistent about removing old remote assets to not drive up S3 costs, I'll be doing that shortly.
But, thanks again ...
2020-02-12 06:27:39 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
$87.99 via Patreon
Total: $87.99
Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $19.09
DigitalOcean: $24.68
Total: $43.77
Donations to Date
$960.69
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$712.06
Money left over
$248.63
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One thing I forgot to correct last time: I got 25 cents less in Patreon donations than I reported last month, but the "Money left over" amount this mo...
2020-01-11 23:27:05 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
$72.54 via Patreon
Total: $72.54
Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $39.86
DigitalOcean: $44.54
Total: $84.40
Donations to Date
$872.95
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$668.29
Money left over
$204.66
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The DigitalOcean costs spiked a bit because of the memory issue we were having in the middle of the month that I didn't resolve until about a week later....
2019-12-04 06:37:46 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
$76.64 via Patreon
Total: $76.64
Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $27.10
DigitalOcean: $24.68
Total: $51.78
Donations to Date
$800.41
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$583.89
Money left over
$216.52
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Was kind of surprised at the S3 jump, but itβs definitely within parameters for now. Thanks again for your donations, denizens of Merveilles, and have a...
2019-11-06 08:09:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! Reminder to vote on the previous post. You can find the poll here, or click on the embedded link with this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/30553962
I'd love to get your input to see if we should move forward with local posting or not.
The poll on the instance is finishing up tomorrow, but I'll run this poll for a few more days to give you all some more time as well. Thanks again! :3
(Update: Embedded the wrong link, oops! This has th...
2019-10-21 20:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey there everyone! After getting a few messages about this, I have been doing a bit of research about local-only posting and what it would look like to implement that feature on our instance.
See my thread about it here: https://merveilles.town/@somnius/102967788986849037
To gather more insight on the level of interest in this feature, I'm running a poll both on the instance and also on here, for you all!
Here's a breakdown of...
2019-10-15 18:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
$74.38 via Patreon
Total: $74.38
Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $18.20
DigitalOcean: $24.68
Total: $42.88
Donations to Date
$723.77
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$532.11
Money left over
$191.66
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We've been doing quite well since starting the Patreon and things are continuing to look up! Thanks for being your lovely selves, and I hope you all are h...
2019-10-06 22:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostDonations
$76.33 via Patreon
Total: $76.33
Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $20.16
DigitalOcean: $24.68
Total: $44.84
Donations to Date
$649.39
Infrastructure Costs to Date
$489.23
Money left over
$160.16
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The to-date amounts include the costs & donations since the server was started in December 2018. Amounts are in USD.
2019-09-05 04:59:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey there everyone! Somnius here. It's been a few months since this Patreon was started, and I've been blown away from the response. With the current amount of money we have, the instance can be completely self-sustained.
From here on out, I'll be including the financial reports on Patreon so backers can see them. I'll keep everyone involved in any new developments and such as well.
Thanks again everyone, and I hope you enjoy The Town! :D
2019-09-05 04:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post
