If I’m reading it right, we’re sitting at the point where we’re comfortably meeting costs, but don’t bring in enough for anything else substantial, and are banking any excess we do have.
That is correct
How would the core community and current donors demonstrate that kind of support? Are we talking a post in
/c/main/c/chapotraphouse saying ‘upvote if you think we should get more money and hire a full time dev’?
Yeah, that would work. It’s not something we’ve specifically fleshed out. We just don’t want it to seem astroturfed and there hasn’t been much concern about it until now. Maybe some help coming up with more stretch goals would be helpful, too
Can confirm. The bottlenecks that happen when the site gets high traffic are in the database. New websocket messages happen in response to post and comment creation, which are relatively lightweight operations with a small payload.
So live updates have consistently been an issue that needs to be resolved on the frontend, but making that fix would not stop the site from getting overloaded