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title: late 2024 downtime notes & funding update
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## late 2024 downtime notes & funding update
hello everyone, i'm sure you've noticed the recent bot issues the past few
weeks. i'll explain a little about it here, hopefully it helps understand a bit
of what's going on.
in short: pluralkit is in close to 850,000 discord servers by now. running such
a large discord bot is hard work and it's expensive; all of us in the staff team
are putting in our own time and money to make the bot as best as it can be -
it's an accessibility tool first and foremost, and we care about everyone who
uses the bot (even if it's not for an accessibility reason! that's fine too!)
and we're happy to do what we can for y'all.
unfortunately, the time and money we are able to put in right now is not quite
enough to have the bot run smoothly. we're at a point where the size of the bot
is just over our technical and financial capabilities, and we're working through
making adjustments for that. it'll be rocky for some time longer, so please bear
with us while we figure things out.
in the future, we're looking at creating a "pluralkit premium" to offer some
extra paid features (don't worry, no existing features will ever become paid),
so we can pay staff/devs for their time working on pluralkit. it'll take a
while, legal company things are not something any of us are experienced in.
hopefully at 1 million servers? no promises, though!
in the short-term, we'd like to be able to afford better, more reliable servers,
without paying for them out of our own pockets. if you can, please consider
subscribing to our new [patreon](<https://patreon.com/pluralkit/>) or making
a one-time donation on [buymeacoffee](<https://buymeacoffee.com/pluralkit/>) -
even just a dollar or two is really helpful. (if you'd like to donate but
neither of those work, please reach out and we'll see what we can do)
we're also looking for technical help on infrastructure and non-bot backend
services. all of the code and infrastructure for pluralkit is open-source on
[our github](<https://github.com/pluralkit>). if you're familiar with running
real-time software at scale and are able to help, we'd really appreciate it.
finally, thank _you_ for using and sharing and talking about pluralkit. this has
never meant to be a big business, or a business at all; it was created to be a
useful resource to plural folk, and we're very happy it's been useful to so many
people. many of you have written unofficial guides and youtube videos and other
resources, as well as created websites and apps and tools that integrate with
pluralkit. we love seeing the work all of you put in to make everyone else's
experience better.
any thoughts/comments are welcome in the
[#suggestions-feedback](https://discord.com/channels/466707357099884544/468821582794588160)
channel of the support server: <https://discord.gg/PczBt78>
\- astrid, iris, alyssa, pals, and the rest of the pluralkit team

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title: january 2025 funding update
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## january 2025 funding update
hi @everyone! a little update from [last month's announcement](/posts/2024-12-05-downtime-notes/).
we've signed a sponsorship agreement with [Prodigi](https://prodigi.nz) -
they've agreed to let us use some of their space in a US datacenter
(specifically HE FMT2).
> Prodigi is a New Zealand based technology services provider. They offer shared
web hosting and VPSes, as well as business networking and consultancy services.
while we have datacenter space available now, we still need to buy servers to
put there. we've bought some hardware with the donations from last month (thank
you very much!), but we're looking for **$2000** more in donations. this will
allow us to get servers that will last us a very long time, and support the bot
as it gets bigger in the future.
one-time donations are best on
[buy me a coffee](https://buymeacoffee.com/pluralkit), but donations on
[patreon](https://patreon.com/pluralkit) are appreciated too. if neither of
those work for you, let us know in the
[support server](https://discord.gg/PczBt78).
alternatively, if you're a enterprise hardware manufacturer/vendor (or SFMIX,
since we'll need a port there) and would like to also sponsor us, please reach
out at <team@pluralkit.me> :​)
we're hoping to get everything set up in the new datacenter and the bot moved
over towards end of february / beginning of march. we'll let you know!

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title: Announcements & other posts
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# Announcements & other posts
- 2025-01-14: [january 2025 funding update](/posts/2025-01-14-funding-update/)
- 2024-12-05: [late 2024 downtime notes & funding update](/posts/2024-12-05-downtime-notes/)