feat(docs): announcements

docs/content/posts/2024-12-05-downtime-notes.md

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+title: late 2024 downtime notes & funding update
+permalink: /posts/2024-12-05-downtime-notes/
+---
+
+## 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

docs/content/posts/2025-01-14-funding-update.md

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+title: january 2025 funding update
+permalink: /posts/2025-01-14-funding-update/
+---
+
+## 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!

docs/content/posts/index.md

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+title: Announcements & other posts
+permalink: /posts/
+---
+
+# 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/)