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Tags: Chris Avellone; COBOL; Codex Server Slush Fund
You may have noticed the Codex starting to get a bit slow and unresponsive at times. That's (partly) because it is time <pause for dramatic effect> to get a new server.
It costs a few thousand a year to keep this place going, which we usually cover between donations and HAVE YOU SEEN THIS AWESOME ONLINE CASINO ads, as well as a spattering of poorly paid other ads you see about the place for those few of you who don't use ad-blockers.
We also want to migrate to the snappier XenForo 2 forum software which will mean a lot of work behind the scenes just to make everything look and work like it currently does (mostly) BUT UPGRADES YAY.
So we're drawing some extra attention to our annual fund-raiser and letting you know we're looking to raise $5k USD this year. That should cover a bunch of upgrades we want to do, get us migrated to XF2, and run the place for a few more years until we repeat the process in the never-ending need to keep upgrading things because programmers like to completely change how they do things every five years or so. This is also why most banks still run on COBOL.
To incentivize you, dear reader, to cough up a portion of your Government COVID cheque during the apocalypse, everyone who donates over $100 (clarification, any multiple of $100, eg donate $200 and you get 2x) we are developing a special physical reward. It might be a special Codex t-shirt. It might be a USB drive. It might be a bottle of Chris Avellone's bath water. We don't know yet, we're still working that out (it'll depend on item design, cost and postage). But we'll let you know.
You may have noticed the Codex starting to get a bit slow and unresponsive at times. That's (partly) because it is time <pause for dramatic effect> to get a new server.
It costs a few thousand a year to keep this place going, which we usually cover between donations and HAVE YOU SEEN THIS AWESOME ONLINE CASINO ads, as well as a spattering of poorly paid other ads you see about the place for those few of you who don't use ad-blockers.
We also want to migrate to the snappier XenForo 2 forum software which will mean a lot of work behind the scenes just to make everything look and work like it currently does (mostly) BUT UPGRADES YAY.
So we're drawing some extra attention to our annual fund-raiser and letting you know we're looking to raise $5k USD this year. That should cover a bunch of upgrades we want to do, get us migrated to XF2, and run the place for a few more years until we repeat the process in the never-ending need to keep upgrading things because programmers like to completely change how they do things every five years or so. This is also why most banks still run on COBOL.
To incentivize you, dear reader, to cough up a portion of your Government COVID cheque during the apocalypse, everyone who donates over $100 (clarification, any multiple of $100, eg donate $200 and you get 2x) we are developing a special physical reward. It might be a special Codex t-shirt. It might be a USB drive. It might be a bottle of Chris Avellone's bath water. We don't know yet, we're still working that out (it'll depend on item design, cost and postage). But we'll let you know.
