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Which reminds me: someone should take over the forum! Who wants it? Let Sean know!
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Nick wrote: August 21st, 2023, 5:46 pm Which reminds me: someone should take over the forum! Who wants it? Let Sean know!
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I have once again forgotten to turn off the credit card autopay for our hosting--you all have an eleven month notice that this is going to go away if no one wants it.
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Update: no more attachments. Please use Imgur or another image hosting site. Given that we may need to move this elsewhere, I don't want non-essential gigabytes being stored here.
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What is the annual hosting expense? DM me with some details, I could help take it on.
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Yeah I'd be happy to help with managing/running the forum, but I don't have any experience on such stuff. Let me know if there's a way I can help.
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There seems to be an issue with quoting other people's posts, causing a bunch of characters to show up.
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It even happened when I just posted a link, no quoting other post.
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Hey guys, we still have no succession plan for paying the hosting bill. *The site will shut down on July 29 if it is not paid*. Nick's out. I don't use this site much anymore, and still provide free technical maintenance, so I am not willing to foot the bill. If anybody wants to pitch in to pay the bill, you can Venmo me here: https://venmo.com/u/hayfordoleary. If we do not hit $150 and site goes down, I will refund you.

EDIT: $20 down, $130 to go
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I'll pitch in $20. This forum is one of the few spaces where I've been able to find in depth discussion on Twin Cities development and transportation issues. I'd hate to see it and all of the wealth of knowledge here disappear. If things don't work out, we should look into a migration plan to a new forum like the MSP Skyscrapercity or something like that.
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Thanks for your support Wezle, as well as Matt and Brad. $120 down, $30 to go
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Update: we are good for now! Thanks all, especially the Twincitizen Charitable Trusts, for your generosity. I will look into setting up a Patreon or something so we can address this is an ongoing way instead of relying on an urgent call like this
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Checked in and saw the urgent note. I’m ready for a Patreon if one is setup.
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Whoops, I should scroll all the way down here more often. Thanks for chipping in, everyone.
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Hey all—
We still have no formal succession plan for this. We need $165 to pay for the next six months of hosting here, by January 22nd. I will continue my approach of coordinating this but others need to contribute the 165.

Send me your contribution at https://venmo.com/u/hayfordoleary. As with before, if we don't raise $165 by Jan 22, I will refund you.

EDIT: Thanks to Cole for the first $20. $145 to go
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Sent in $20
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Thanks to Cole and Ryan T for their generous donations! We are set for this period. See you again in six months
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Ran some updates on the platform today, which fixed some lingering bugs and allowed us to have dark mode now. Even did a variation on the logo so it'd look nice on a dark bg. Enjoy! Reply here if anything else seems off
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We have now moved to a new host — the search will be broken for a bit while it re-indexes. Reply here if you see any other issues
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Not sure if it is a me thing but the browser icon on the tab is not showing for me anymore. Just showing the generic globe on chrome
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