koi
While baraag has remained closed as invite-only, the server is now hitting its limits and I am left with no choice but to make another upgrade soon to keep us running smoothly.
The new server I am eyeing will increase my monthly cost by an additional $300 USD, an amount that I can bear for a short while before it stops being financially sustainable for me.
I hate to make a plea for donations but if you can spare anything to my SubscribeStar or pixivFANBOX pages, I would be forever grateful.
koi
Violetty :over18: :verified:
@satori This place must be protected! :blobsadreach: Time for me to go around...
Mircea Kitsune
@satori Darn: I did not know it's this bad. Really hope it gets solved, good luck and all my good thoughts! 300$ a month sounds like so much too... are electricity bills this horrible in the USA?
Mircea Kitsune
@satori I can only think of one piece of advice that could be helpful at the moment: The Lemmy instance https://burggit.moe has a storage service https://shota.nu for their media, they have the same liberal rules on art as us. See if you can encourage some creators to upload there and link their media here? Maybe talk with their team to see if they can help, there's a Matrix channel let me know if you're interested in a link.
Huburt_Pewder
@satori Do you accept direct donations? I don't have a credit card so I can't use SubscribeStar, but I would like to help as much as I can.
kodocon carne
@satori I'd like to pay a higher amount per month. Would you consider adding higher tiers?
![💠Momma 💠🔞 🐻[open comms]](https://social.076.moe/avatar/16552-48-20230425125251.webp){kind=small}
💠Momma 💠🔞 🐻[open comms]
@satori is this why my account is lagging?
ac120
@satori
I'll up my pledges.
Mircea Kitsune
@satori One possibly obvious suggestion: If the situation remains dire over the next days, make a new announcement and suggest those who are willing to enable post auto-deletion. I'd recommend 2 years: That should be enough to free up some space, while typically nothing is found and missed after such a long period of time.
Two instances on which I run media posting bots asked me to enable it last year as they were running out of space: It seems to be a limitation much of the fediverse ran into.
FlashRe
@satori Not sure where my income will be going forward, but for now I've got some so I've signed up on the Fanbox.
Baldo Buttman
@satori I was just thinking I should send some dough...
Any more information about those 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗷𝗶𝘀? How does that work? Maximum size/resolution/formats? Can we buy extras?
I want to make a #LovinSis emoji! :hypotheticalLSemoji:
Aragarashi Suky
@satori I would do it, it would sound familiar to you but in Argentina, the economic situation is very difficult
Guy Incognito
@satori would just like to point out that I did donate about $10 a while ago but you never got back to me about having a custom emote added to the server which was listed as a perk for donating that amount on Substar
RayRay
@satori i really wish i could help but im not in the best position to do so, perhaps it would be posible to make some sort of premium service like twitter does? it could be something like 5 dollars a month! failry cheap so many people can affortd it and maybe that would motivate people to get it and support baraag, baraag has grow so i think it would be a good idea to expand in that regard
♀️ 🍑
@satori Okay, I just signed up on SubscribeStar. I guess it's about time. 👍
RubisDrake
@satori - Since Mastodon is decentralized, would be helpful if more people self-host their art on their own Mastodon servers?
It would be so nice if there were more Baraag-like servers...
Most of the cost probably has to do with storage and serving all the content (bandwidth), right?
p
@satori What about adding data limits to every account?
If someone wasts to post more than 1GB (or lower) of content, they are required to pay a monthly fee or delete content.
This might also encourage people to upload huge files somewhere else.
Nomad Reverse
@satori Here's an idea to generate some alternative revenue as well.
I know you can't do ads for revenue, but you could try selling "announcement advertisements" to artists.
I'm sure some people would pay for you to announce to every baraag user about their commissions being open or something similar.
Or like a paid "artist spotlight".
Thoughts?
ArmUpload🔞
@satori Keep it up your doing and we all love it and we are full supporting for you! :blobheart:
Punished Mob
@satori Adminning any website with a lot of traffic is difficult and time consuming.
Mr.ShotaroEtsuko :verified:
@satori how can I make a payment without sub.
Atoro
@satori what's the total monthly cost now? Would is possibly be better to rent a rack and buy a server?
I have a server rack at Hurricane Electric in Fremont, CA, $400/mo for a gigabit drop and 20A power, I can scale up with no extra costs outside of hardware. Could be worth looking into, especially since used servers can be dirt cheap sometimes.
Good luck, friend
magikarp
@satori Thank you for letting us know, I may pitch in as this place is by far the best for finding artists to commission.
Shirobine
@satori imo you should probably delete posts over a year old and from inactive accounts. Let the rich image hosts deal with storing art for longer like pixiv. Or maybe you can introduce a tier that keeps your posts permanent for a price, though I'm not sure how receptive that would be. Probably not very heh.
TrekrekBlue(Commissions Open)
@satori hello, do you have a one time payment? my commission income fluctuates😅 but i still want to contribute
TrekrekBlue(Commissions Open)
@satori i also want to help but my finances fluncuate and i already donated,so i can only do so as an artist, i will do a raffle!
-for first time and long time subsriptionto to [ https://subscribestar.adult/baraag ] equal to my prices (Ex:20 One character, 40 2 Character....)
i will treat it as a commission to me
send me proof with date on my discored [https://discord.com/channels/1010930371560472647/1151856373370474526] with your commission idea
i will pic 1 to do for every 2 weeks on september 18 till the end of november 2023
Sugar
@satori I don't understand, how much is Subscribe Star charging in fees?
Your Pixiv said 2023 costs should be $560/mo or so for the server and the email service. Adding $300 to this would be $860. But I'm showing $1315 in support on SubscribeStar, plus who knows how many supporting on Pixiv. Even a 20% payment processing fee would leave over $1k a month in income.
Are you losing more than 20% of the support you receive to platform/payment fees? That's insane if you are.
koi
@InvincibleSugar I need to update my pixivFANBOX but I now have additional cost since the start of 2023, of which includes an automated backup service (in the event that baraag goes down or has its plug pulled, all posts & its content can be restored to another server) and remote media storage service to offload the worry of every running out of disk space on the server itself. Both these services keep increasing in cost as more media files are hosted.
Sugar
@satori Mmm, I see. Okay. Thank you for the explanation!
Toadloco
@satori This why I can't ever get Baraag to load on a regular browser, and can only access my account through mobile?
Hope nothing bad happens. I follow some talented artists who are only active here now.
Cotorrito
@satori This means I can make Jelly Jamm emojis???? Is there a link to the guidelines or specifications? I will gladly subscribe for a couple months as an angel subscriber if subscribe star accepts Joker cards from Canada :blobaww:
Yukkuri
Bobetap
Animalieri
@satori ok i have pays me 500 yen and now upgradet to 1000yen plan next month I will give 1000 yen I will keep that plan up
Paradox Edge
@satori Ruin, Destruction, Alianation. You deserve all of it. A slow spiral to a certain doom. You have made this pit yourself, dug this grave yourself. Now go die in it.
Razza
@satori @InvincibleSugar How much do you need as of right now.
T
@satori Lmao I don't have SubscribeStar, and Pixiv wants my PayPal, which is definitely not an option.
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11hall [Support 🇺🇦]
@satori Just sent a $30 tip on SS on top of the regular sub 👍
Will repeat the tip with at least the same amount next month
TrekrekBlue(Commissions Open)
@satori Hay, you know my competition for free commission (https://baraag.net/@TrekrekBlue/111064031736662984)
No one joined😂 ..... meaning! The first one to join, wins immediately!
There are very few I won't draw and a lot more that I would draw
So if you want one! DM me😋
Boss Leader
@satori Damn, have you considered a VIP/Premium subscription type thing? Like Twitter Blue (except not cringe) ?
ZeroFives
@satori This is where. If I wasn't a completely broke boy. I would gladly donate something. I hope other who have the money do. I love this site~
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