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title: late 2024 downtime notes & funding update
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permalink: /posts/2024-12-05-downtime-notes/
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## late 2024 downtime notes & funding update
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hello everyone, i'm sure you've noticed the recent bot issues the past few
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weeks. i'll explain a little about it here, hopefully it helps understand a bit
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of what's going on.
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in short: pluralkit is in close to 850,000 discord servers by now. running such
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a large discord bot is hard work and it's expensive; all of us in the staff team
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are putting in our own time and money to make the bot as best as it can be -
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it's an accessibility tool first and foremost, and we care about everyone who
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uses the bot (even if it's not for an accessibility reason! that's fine too!)
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and we're happy to do what we can for y'all.
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unfortunately, the time and money we are able to put in right now is not quite
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enough to have the bot run smoothly. we're at a point where the size of the bot
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is just over our technical and financial capabilities, and we're working through
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making adjustments for that. it'll be rocky for some time longer, so please bear
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with us while we figure things out.
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in the future, we're looking at creating a "pluralkit premium" to offer some
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extra paid features (don't worry, no existing features will ever become paid),
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so we can pay staff/devs for their time working on pluralkit. it'll take a
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while, legal company things are not something any of us are experienced in.
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hopefully at 1 million servers? no promises, though!
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in the short-term, we'd like to be able to afford better, more reliable servers,
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without paying for them out of our own pockets. if you can, please consider
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subscribing to our new [patreon](<https://patreon.com/pluralkit/>) or making
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a one-time donation on [buymeacoffee](<https://buymeacoffee.com/pluralkit/>) -
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even just a dollar or two is really helpful. (if you'd like to donate but
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neither of those work, please reach out and we'll see what we can do)
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we're also looking for technical help on infrastructure and non-bot backend
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services. all of the code and infrastructure for pluralkit is open-source on
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[our github](<https://github.com/pluralkit>). if you're familiar with running
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real-time software at scale and are able to help, we'd really appreciate it.
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finally, thank _you_ for using and sharing and talking about pluralkit. this has
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never meant to be a big business, or a business at all; it was created to be a
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useful resource to plural folk, and we're very happy it's been useful to so many
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people. many of you have written unofficial guides and youtube videos and other
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resources, as well as created websites and apps and tools that integrate with
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pluralkit. we love seeing the work all of you put in to make everyone else's
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experience better.
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any thoughts/comments are welcome in the
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[#suggestions-feedback](https://discord.com/channels/466707357099884544/468821582794588160)
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channel of the support server: <https://discord.gg/PczBt78>
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\- astrid, iris, alyssa, pals, and the rest of the pluralkit team
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