northstarfan:

catpella:

nerd-bastard:

nonegenderwithleftbees:

bihet-dragonize:

nutheadgee:

synclaires:

witchythirteen:

Looking at this makes me so tired.

Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars and….literally nothing changes. There’s no doubt in my mind they’re pocketing most of this money lol

Yep

That’s what’s so wild to me. They’ve made exactly 0 changes other than adding the ‘Exclude’ tags and that def doesn’t take 130k.

You know if any of you actually bothered to click the link it’ll take you to their budget update and break down exactly what the spend the money on, over 70% of which is spent on server expenses, monitoring tools and system licences.

They also spent a good amount of the rest of the 30% budget on significant server overhaul costs. 

AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity you’d have to not bother reading the very open budget plan they have, but to then bitch and whine about people donating to keep the site running is wild. 

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/11192

fuck all y’all, you don’t know a goddamn thing about the skill and effort it takes to run a site like AO3.

Do these commenters think server bandwidth is free???

Just added to the pot. I’ve been using the site a lot more lately.