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Hello, welcome to this month's status update post. Here I will be sharing what's been going on with AnimeThemes.moe, where we are heading, how to help, and inviting feedback.
The listing of last month's account balances and posted transactions can be found here.
Our operational expenses decreased by ~$85 and our rolling balance remained roughly the same compared to the end of January.
There will continue to be some adjustments made after the February incident, including the decommissioning and consolidation of our beta and prod architecture. The Mastodon instance has already been decommissioned due to a lack of use. Staff will also continue making up the difference of the excess cost incurred by the incident. Once this is finished, we will resume our funding forecasting.
On another note, our payment acceptance method for Ko-fi has been locked, so this method of donation has been disabled for the time being.
Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Thank you to everyone who has supported the project thus far!
We have also set up a Bitcoin address if you prefer to send crypto: bc1qg682txpazfqhh50uq2xmvh5pn99c95dujd7sy5
If you want another way to support us, we were given a referral link on our DO account. We get kickback if new users sign up and spend $25 USD (You get a $100 credit that expires in 60 days). If anyone was thinking of using this platform for their own hosting needs, please use our link:
https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=38c90f0c46e8
This month, we have started integration testing for the playlist release in our beta environment.
Our integration testing is a closed beta that includes our Patrons as participants. If you would like early access to our playlist features and involvement in our development efforts, please consider supporting us on Patreon.
An open beta will be announced at a later date.
This month, we have made the necessary changes to support a closed beta integration testing effort for playlists and began this effort. The full set of changes can be reviewed here.
Additions
Fixes
Maintenance
With the start of the closed beta there's been a lot of progress on the playlist effort. This are some of the most notable changes:
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If you are interested in helping us with these efforts, please reach out. These are time-consuming efforts and we can benefit from having more volunteers here, especially with anison data. Thanks to those that have recently joined to help us out.
We have had some issues with our first seedbox for Project KuroPon, our source file hosting solution. We are researching offerings that will provide us with a more reliable box. If you are interested in helping out with this project, please contact staff.
Mod applications are still open. We have continued to onboard applicants. Now more than ever with our efforts widening and less of our team being active, we need some help delegating tasks out. Please consider joining the team!
The backup torrent was updated 2023-04-01. The links can be found in the discord and in the one place you should be able to find. The next update will be on 2023-07-01. Seeding is appreciated.
Please consider helping out with our Encoding efforts. We can always use more help there.
We are still looking to staff at least 25 editors to help us backfill and build out our database. If you are interested in helping out, please reach out to para here or on the discord. We have a detailed description of the role in our #help_wanted channel on the discord.
Continuing work to prepare playlist beta access.
Please feel free to discuss anything related to these items or anything else related to the project with us in accompanying social media posts, especially anything we may have forgotten. Feedback on the structure of these posts is welcomed too. Thanks again, everyone!