May Newsletter: 2025 Drive and 2.0 Update, April Financial Report
The 2025 Drive is in full swing - learn how we're doing! Update on the Beta launch of InkBlot 2.0 and you can also take a look at the April Financial report!
2.0 Update
Our new dev has been working hard behind the scenes and we have some great news! The new database has been finished which means we can start transferring accounts over from 1.0. We aren’t able to transfer bookmarks and likes, but all your posts and accounts will be transferred over to 2.0. The date 2.0 will go live is May 15th - we hope you’re excited to see what InkBlot 2.0 has to offer! We’re excited to be able to finally show you!
April Financial Report
Here’s the April Financial Report.
Note from the Director of Finance’s Desk:
If you heard me yelling from the rooftops about how we were in the green last month, I’m sure seeing us in the negatives this month might be confusing or disappointing, but it’s because of a couple of 2.0 related expenses! We brought in a new dev just for transferring users accounts from InkBlot 1.0 to 2.0 so that we could get that done ASAP and work on getting 2.0 out to you all. We also added YouTrack to our list of subscriptions, this is a tool for our support and moderation teams that we’ve been using for free for a while now. Once 2.0 launches we expect that we’ll need the upgrade to allow for the increased work for these teams. This is a yearly expense though, so we won’t need to pay this again until April 2026. Both of these expenses were necessary and are nothing we can’t bounce back from!
Here’s all of our Financial reports since November 2024.
The 2025 Membership Drive is Halfway Over!
Art by Bartley
Don’t miss out on your chance for a sketch reward from our volunteer artists! We’re at 33% of our main goal of 1,000 USD. One time donations of 10 USD or more qualify you for a sketch reward, as well as new memberships of 3 USD or more. Already a member? Check your email or our Ko-fi/Patreon pages for supporter exclusive links to the request form.
We appreciate all of the support and donations we’ve received so far. To further support us, you can spread the word about the drive by posting about it on social media or sharing our posts on Tumblr and Bluesky.
Keep an eye on our socials for updates as well as upcoming events! We’re currently hosting a Design Contest on Bluesky and Tumblr; submit your sci-fi character designs by May 5th for a chance to win two drive sketch requests!
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