City Council Cipher Posted May 29, 2021 City Council Share Posted May 29, 2021 (edited) Hello everyone! Our donation target will be a bit higher for the next few months as we work on updating our infrastructure around new hosting plans available from OVH. For more information, please check out this great post by Telephone which covers all of the details in great depth. TL;DR - we’re hoping to reduce our overall monthly operating costs by nearly $600.00 in the near future! Now, as usual, a quick reminder that there are more ways to support Homecoming than just through donations. For a general overview of the different ways you can help Homecoming, check out this thread. We’re always in need of more people to help test upcoming updates on our public beta server; the bug reports and feedback that we receive from testers helps us immensely. For more information on how to get started on the beta server, check out our Read This to Get Started thread and the rest of the Beta Forums. Additionally, if you have Discord Nitro then please consider using a Nitro server boost on our public Discord server. Maintaining over 30 Nitro boosts gives all of our members new and enhanced features on the server including additional emojis, a higher upload limit, better voice chat quality, and our vanity URL. Click here to read more about Server Boosting. We’re currently at 37 boosts and will lose our Level 3 perks if we drop below 30 for more than a few days. We greatly appreciate everyone who has put their Nitro boosts towards our Discord server! May 2021 Breakdown Last month we accepted $4,968.76 in donations, $136.52 over our target for the month. The remainder was put towards additional expenses for the month, detailed below. Note that as the costs for May exceeded the donation target for the month, we will be including the remaining balance for the month in the June donation window. These payments were made from our contingency fund. Here is the breakdown of what May’s funds went towards: $4,645.44 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH + $1,111.99 to purchase and set up a new SCALE-2. For more information about this, please read this thread. $300.00 to pay our annual Delaware LLC franchise tax $240.00 to renew our UPS mailing address / box for 12 months $125.00 to renew our 12-month agreement with our Registered Agent $121.57 for our Google G-Suite services $70.17 for domain renewals $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace $10.00 for our Atlassian Jira (Cloud) service $10.00 for an Invision marketplace extension $9.73 for security / administration software $8.56 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email June 2021 We have a few additional charges this month: An invoice from our primary law firm for their work done up to March 31st totalling $1,823.00 which we will be paying in early June $75 to renew our forum software for 6 months $20 to recharge our Twilio balance (we use this for programmable SMS for centralized 2fa) Overall, the donation target for June 2021 is $8,060.45. Here is a breakdown of how the funds are allocated: $4,290.45 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH $1,823.00 for the latest legal invoice $1,677.14 to cover the additional charges from may $121.57 for our Google G-Suite services $75.00 to renew our forum software $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace $20.00 to recharge our Twilio balance for programmable SMS $10.00 for our Atlassian Jira (Cloud) service $9.73 for security / administration software $8.56 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email Our donation system will be open as of the time of this post with a donation target of $8,060.45 and will automatically close once that target is met. As always, thank you for all of the support! - The Homecoming Team Edited May 29, 2021 by Cipher Edited for clarity on June's expenses 4 1 1 If you need help, please submit a support request here or use /petition in-game. Got time to spare? Want to see Homecoming thrive? Consider volunteering as a Game Master! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marine X Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Managed to get in there, and glad to help, " When it's too tough for everyone else, it's just right for me..." ( Unless it's Raining, or Cold, or Really Dirty or there are Sappers, Man I hate those Guys...) Marine X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abraxus Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Happy to have helped out for another month! 1 What was no more, is REBORN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowmere Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Done! ...and thank you all for everything you do! 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starro Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 thank you Homecoming team "She who lives by the cybernetic monstrosity powered by living coral, all too often dies by the cybernetic monstrosity powered by living coral." -Doc Buzzsaw Pineapple 🍍 Pizza 🍕 is my thumbs up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCavity Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 (edited) Done, and glad to have been able to make it in time to donate this month ! Many thanks to all those who keep us going in the City that we love. Edited May 29, 2021 by McCavity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asacledhae Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 And done from me too. See you again next month, and keep up the good work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peerless Girl Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Finally caught the window, Paid my March, April, and May monthly donation and am all caught up! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glacier Peak Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Whoo hoo finally got in as well. Made up for previous months. 1 I lead weekly Indom Badge Runs / A newer giant monster guide by Glacier Peak / A tour of Pocket D easter eggs! / Arena All-Star Accolade Guide! Best Post Ever.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariamaki Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Squeezed in this time, been a little bit. Excited to see the potential improvements from the new architecture! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krafti Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 First time I've been around during donation window. Glad I could contribute to such a friendly bunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmperorSteele Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Done! Given how much we need this month, it shouldn't be too hard for more people to donate if they wanted! ...unless someone plans on being a "Whale" >_> 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darmian Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Donated. Keep up the good work! 1 AE SFMA Arcs: The Meteors (Arc id 42079) | Dark Deeds in Galaxy City: Part One. (Arc id 26756) X | Dark Deeds in Galaxy City: Part Two. (Arc id 26952) | Dark Deeds in Galaxy City: Part Three. (Arc id 27233) Darker Deeds: Part One (Arc id 28374) | Darker Deeds: Part Two. (Arc id 28536) | Darker Deeds: Part Three. (Arc id 29252) | Darkest Before Dawn: Part One (Arc id 29891) | Darkest Before Dawn: Part Two (Arc id 30210) | Darkest Before Dawn: Part Three (Arc id 30560) | Bridge of Forever ( Arc id 36642) | The Cassini Division (Arc id 37104) X | The House of Gaunt Saints (Arc id 37489) X | The Spark of the Blind (Arc id 40403) | Damnatio Memoriae (Arc id 41140) X | The Eve of War (Arc id 41583) X | Spirals: Part One. (Arc id 55109) | Spirals: Part Two. (Arc id 55358) | Spirals: Part Three. (Arc id 57197) I Sing of Arms and the Man (Arc id 42617) | Three Sisters (Arc id 43013) (Pre War Praetorian Loyalist. Pre War Praetorian Resistance. Pre ITF Cimerora. Post ITF Cimerora. X = Dev Choice/Hall of Fame ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendalls Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 So happy to help keep our world alive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grinner Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 d( *_* )b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinestron Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Just happened to look and made it this time. Thanks HC team! 👍❤🎉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacheyon Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PezD Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Donated ! Try to do my small part. Keep up the good work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anker Steadfast Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 10 usd send your way .... TAKE IT !! 😆 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ennoia Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Donated. Thank You for all of your hard work and dedication. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anker Steadfast Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Dang, donations already at 92% ... it's moving fast. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoru-hime Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 I also managed to sneak a donation in for a change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZekeStenzland Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Woot! Closed it out a 2nd time! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anker Steadfast Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Nice, they put up a bigger donation goal than usual, and we still hit it within 3 hours. 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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