Forum work

[olyclimber]

I just learned of a new headache I’m going to have to deal with. Our apps in the forum won’t migrate to the new version of the forum software without significant refactoring.  So i have to refactor/update them.  With the new tools I have it’s just going to be a lot of AI tokens to get this work done. I’ve paid for a years license for the AI software, but in this work it’s so intensive that I burn through the daily token credit in a 2 hour session. I can “put more quarters” in the machine, it’s usually 5-15 dollars and then I run against my own time limits.

what does this mean? Well this…I have a significant project in this that I need to work on this year. We do have money in the war chest which I can use. I would prefer to hold on that for emergencies, so if possible you can support this project with a small donation. 5-15 dollars supports one evening of me coding and working on this migration. Donate button is at the top. I’m just going to mention this once and will just pull money from from existing funds as needed. This isn’t public radio, no 24 hour telethons here.

thanks for being here and your support!

[manninjo]

thanks for the update and keeping the infrastructure here going!

[JasonG]

Sounds like we need to do a photo auction!  

But in the meantime, I'll add in some $$

[olyclimber]

Thanks those of you throwing down $.   It really is a morale boost for me, to know that I'm not alone here in keeping this good ship Cascadeclimbers.com.

I want to build this so it will last.  The challenges for this project are unique, but I've already faced so many keeping this site going that I'm feeling confident we can do this.  This is just another bridge to cross, there will be more. We will cross them.