Hello Friends!

The silent admin has come out of hibernation to give you an update. As we've been moderating, approving, and all around enjoying the content reddthat & the lemmyverse provides I figured we might as well have an update.

Reddthat has been upgraded to the latest lemmy verison 0.19.18. 🥳

See the link in the post for the main updates, as well as the 0.19.17 and 0.19.16 versions. But honestly... there hasn't been many changes that are relatable for end users. The Lemmy devs have been pushing out only serious fixes. The only one that is even slightly relevant is 'Display UserBadges for Bot, Banned and Deleted users in all PersonListings'

It looks like this:

We've been kicking along but have seen a huge increase in our image/video storage! Which has unfortunately meant that I'm getting charged close to $44USD/m for our storage, and we are now further away from breaking even. So all the savings we manged to find with our server migration has been offset with our increase in storage usages. This happened a couple months ago and I don't have a pretty graph showing the increase, but happened in Feb based on the financials.

We regular serve about 1 to 2 TB per month from the server and have apparently "saved" 1TB over the past 30 days.

Something else that is interesting (to me at least), and might be part of the current state of AI nonsense is that even though we have always blocked 'old.reddthat.com' from the search engines it is still significantly queried more than other hostnames. Including one of our old frontends 'next' which has been removed for a "long time".

The DNS query map shows the closest datacentre for those queries. Interestingly there are some tiny tiny tiny datacenters there.

The total number of connections also is an indication of how popular the lemmyverse is. As this includes the server to server connections, not just our regular users it is a bit polluted but shows how many connections we need to respond to on a regular basis.

And if you've made it to the end, I want to make a special shoutout to everyone for being around, having fun, and being respectful to our fellow netizens. Unfortunately there have been a few bad actors so I would like to reiterate our No. 1 Rule. Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.) (Yeah... While it's certainly not number 1 in the list, it should be!) On a whole Reddthat users are always special in my heart and we have been very "stable" in the number of users. For those of you who regularly, comment, vote, post, and use reddthat thankyou!

An an extra special shoutout to those who "put their money where their mouth is" and support Reddthat financially. I honestly wouldn't be doing this after all these years without your continued support.

Cheers,

Tiff

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💸 "Expenses":

• Jan Costs: ~A$122
• Feb Costs: ~A$156
• March Costs: ~A$148
• April Costs: ~A$150

I expect future costs to stay around the 150 mark. We were so close to being self sufficient but as always, if we get close to our goal of $60/w we'll finally be in a solid position to stay forever online.

⭐ Donation "Statistics":

• New Donators in Jan,Feb,March,April: 0
• Lost Donators (Who did not renew): 1
• Total Weekly: ~A$27.36
• ("Monthly": 27.36×52÷12 = ~A$118.56)
• Our Public Donators: <3
  • AppleStrudel
  • asqapro
  • bitwize
  • ~1903711
  • Matthew Fennell

🥅 Goal: 27.36 / 60.00

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Thank you for everything you do! I'll try to remember to shrink images more before uploading.