Heliomass has movedSilence is deadly.
Stéphanie@heliomass One of the main problems is that he's the only admin and he gets the donations directly in his bank account. When you're accused of something like that, you can't expect people to continue donating, especially without a message saying that he's going to relinquish the management, or whatever, to a third party.
And with no state of the instance in a few years [there was a live one at some point this year ]...
Mark Connolly@stephanie @heliomass There was a live state of the instance early in the year. It went well, and he agreed that doing them quarterly would be a good approach. The second live one is the one that was cancelled.
erin@uxMark question, did you get a financial statement and breakdown during that meeting? Do you know how many donations are coming in versus cost to maintain the server? @stephanie @heliomass
@erin @stephanie @heliomass Yes, financial statements were presented. I don’t recall the details. But there was also a plan to migrate off remaining expensive monthly infrastructure. It all looked fairly clear. And that migration has since been completed.
@erin @stephanie @heliomass And once the migration was completed, the performance was hugely improved. It was even faster than where I am now. So lower cost and better performance.
@uxMark I’m curious to see what they looked like. AFAIK that would be the first time a financial statement of any kind were produced for the public (I could be wrong). It would be nice for a report to be generated quarterly and posted so it was available for all users to see, not just those who attended that meeting. It’s also too bad the spring SOTI was cancelled.
@erin @uxMark @heliomass there were a couple of public ones back in the day when I was still around https://news.mstdn.ca/state-of-the-instance-spring-2023/
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