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I am happy to announce we have reached our funding goal of $4500 for the first half of this year! From the bottom of our hearts, a big thank you to everyone for all your support. There were a few who chose to pay a lot more than we ever suspected, they know who they are, and I would literally like to buy them a beer.
Continuing with the good news, our goal for July-December is less than half of our first-half goal, and we are a month ahead of schedule — details to follow on that. Though we won't all be dining on champagne and caviar, we are hopeful we will be able to continue paying the bills for the foreseeable future. For now, I just want to say that you are all one awesome community and that you continue to surprise and inspire us; we'll keep doing what we can to make this place the best it can be.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by TK on Monday June 01 2015, @01:32PM
I only relented and donated this past Friday because I saw how close we were to the goal.
I wonder if I'm the only one, and if not, if that's an exploitable phenomenon.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 5, Funny) by tibman on Monday June 01 2015, @03:21PM
Donation meters that are stuck at 99%? sounds like an awesome idea!
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(Score: 2) by rts008 on Monday June 01 2015, @04:40PM
Let me guess:
Did you and 'TK' code the infamous(stuck on either 1 second left, or 99% complete 'forever') 'Windows [lack of]Progress Bar'?
*starts heating the tar and looking for something fowl to pluck* ;-)
(Score: 3, Funny) by tibman on Monday June 01 2015, @06:38PM
We had a hire another guy just to keep closing all the bug reports. Working as intended!
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 01 2015, @08:40PM
Actually, I thought the donation meter was suck for months.
I first started to wonder if that was the case months ago after I bought my third donation and never saw the meter budge. It appears not to be real time.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Monday June 01 2015, @10:29PM
I noticed the same, it appears to be a manual thing
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by juggs on Tuesday June 02 2015, @01:04AM
It is indeed a manual thing.
mrcoolbp handles the money side of things, so it is down to his availability to check the PayPal and BitPay payments then update the meter on the site. We could look to automate it, but I don't think it would be a high priority.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Tuesday June 02 2015, @02:57AM
Aye, I have to update it manually. I try to check it every day or so, but am not always able. Kind of a double-edged sword too as I like moving the meter when a sub rolls in, but if I wait for another tomorrow that's less transactions for me to input! : )
(Score:1^½, Radical)