FIRSTLY: Thank you to everyone who has ever enjoyed this page, and special thanks to everyone who participacted here and helped me turn lemons into lemonade. It's going to take a couple days to get set up with the new setup, but we're good now. I can breathe a little easier, and it's impossible for me to put into words how much it blows me away that people care about this project at all, much less are willling to throw their hard earned money into making sure it can continue to keep growing and getting better -- so really all I can say is Thank you. I just do not have words that will suffice right now and to try to would be disingenuous. This is just incredible.
That said, I have been a little busy with parents the past day or so and really haven't had time (and tbh I've been a ball of anxiety and stress since this all started) -- It is what it is, and part of me just wants to get back into my own home full time really badly more than anything else, living between two houses and taking on a voluntary layoff has just turned this year into a blur.
I stated yesterday around this time that I thought we were probably close to the goal (if not already there) -- and when I started tallying up the numbers today, I realized that a few $100-$300 deposits were taken in via paypal (while i was adding up venmo transactions) -- which were already pushing the $3000 mark on their own merit .
I do not have the exact total, but I wanted to hurry to get this up to say "HEY, WE ARE GOOD!" so at the very least, I could get out to people to stop sharing and pushing actively for people to send money to us, the goal is *surpassed* and I want to get the word out that we're not in any immediate need to actively push for more. That's the last thing I want to do. I didn't have a lot of time to go over this yesterday and just knew "we were at least very close"
I don't even have a really accurate guess at this point but it's "probably more than 300 over but less than 800 over" -- yeah, that's a huge margin of error, but there are both a lot of ~$10 and a lot of ~$100+ transactions split across Venmo/Paypal/Cashapp/Temporary patreon subscription increases/Apple Cash/Phsyical checks, so I'm just leaving a large margin of error..
As I stated before, if we did go over, I am still personally covering the other ~$1500 in costs associated with this situation, and any excess funds raised here will 100% be recycled into our normal page funding that is normally backed up by montly Patreon subscriptions (Great idea to get on there whether you are paid or unpaid member, as I do plan on really "upping the activity" for making patreon a hub where people can more easily communicate directly with me (and others) and a place where some content that cannot be on youtube can be shared (both through streaming and through download links.. I was heavily vested into finally getting the cloud storage stuff set up literally the day the computer break-down happened)
I want to make it clear that if you had already planned on donating to the page here to help out, we absolutley still could use the help. We do have things we want to invest in (storage archival expansion, software licensing, and just a lot of other expenses that add up very quickly, and we're really depended on individual donors + the collective of patreon users to be the backbone keeping the ship floating over the past 4.5 years. It's been pretty seamless and luckily this is the first time in those years I've had to do something like this. We always have huge expenses that are luckily mostly funded out by the userbase as a whole, many hands make for light lifting.
This is just to make sure people know to not keep sharing this as some kind of dire need, we got it, now hopefully we get back to normal as quiclkly as possible. I still have some parts to order and some work in front of me to get things set up. Best to use this time to start on that than to type a novel on here that nobody wants to read :)
Again -- 100wpm+ typing ability is a very mixed blessing, especially when I'm not planning on proofreading and editing before posting :)
Christopher Hazard
Announcement:
FIRSTLY: Thank you to everyone who has ever enjoyed this page, and special thanks to everyone who participacted here and helped me turn lemons into lemonade. It's going to take a couple days to get set up with the new setup, but we're good now. I can breathe a little easier, and it's impossible for me to put into words how much it blows me away that people care about this project at all, much less are willling to throw their hard earned money into making sure it can continue to keep growing and getting better -- so really all I can say is Thank you. I just do not have words that will suffice right now and to try to would be disingenuous. This is just incredible.
That said, I have been a little busy with parents the past day or so and really haven't had time (and tbh I've been a ball of anxiety and stress since this all started) -- It is what it is, and part of me just wants to get back into my own home full time really badly more than anything else, living between two houses and taking on a voluntary layoff has just turned this year into a blur.
I stated yesterday around this time that I thought we were probably close to the goal (if not already there) -- and when I started tallying up the numbers today, I realized that a few $100-$300 deposits were taken in via paypal (while i was adding up venmo transactions) -- which were already pushing the $3000 mark on their own merit .
I do not have the exact total, but I wanted to hurry to get this up to say "HEY, WE ARE GOOD!" so at the very least, I could get out to people to stop sharing and pushing actively for people to send money to us, the goal is *surpassed* and I want to get the word out that we're not in any immediate need to actively push for more. That's the last thing I want to do. I didn't have a lot of time to go over this yesterday and just knew "we were at least very close"
I don't even have a really accurate guess at this point but it's "probably more than 300 over but less than 800 over" -- yeah, that's a huge margin of error, but there are both a lot of ~$10 and a lot of ~$100+ transactions split across Venmo/Paypal/Cashapp/Temporary patreon subscription increases/Apple Cash/Phsyical checks, so I'm just leaving a large margin of error..
As I stated before, if we did go over, I am still personally covering the other ~$1500 in costs associated with this situation, and any excess funds raised here will 100% be recycled into our normal page funding that is normally backed up by montly Patreon subscriptions (Great idea to get on there whether you are paid or unpaid member, as I do plan on really "upping the activity" for making patreon a hub where people can more easily communicate directly with me (and others) and a place where some content that cannot be on youtube can be shared (both through streaming and through download links.. I was heavily vested into finally getting the cloud storage stuff set up literally the day the computer break-down happened)
I want to make it clear that if you had already planned on donating to the page here to help out, we absolutley still could use the help. We do have things we want to invest in (storage archival expansion, software licensing, and just a lot of other expenses that add up very quickly, and we're really depended on individual donors + the collective of patreon users to be the backbone keeping the ship floating over the past 4.5 years. It's been pretty seamless and luckily this is the first time in those years I've had to do something like this. We always have huge expenses that are luckily mostly funded out by the userbase as a whole, many hands make for light lifting.
This is just to make sure people know to not keep sharing this as some kind of dire need, we got it, now hopefully we get back to normal as quiclkly as possible. I still have some parts to order and some work in front of me to get things set up. Best to use this time to start on that than to type a novel on here that nobody wants to read :)
Again -- 100wpm+ typing ability is a very mixed blessing, especially when I'm not planning on proofreading and editing before posting :)
*Thank you to everyone*
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