20,000 users served (Patreon)

This is just a quick update post to say thank you to all our patrons, and supporters in the modding community. This past weekend we surpassed 20,000 users on our discord! In addition I have a few more fun statistics:

Since January 1st, 2020, We've seen 43,903 completed installs of modlists using Wabbajack. If we estimate about 10 hours to install or update a list by hand, and an average of 40GB of downloads per lists (that's extremely conservative, but some of these were updates of existing installs), that would put us at: 50 years of time Wabbajack has saved members of the community. And about 1.72 petabytes of mods processed/installed by the application.

In the last post I discussed several server issues we were having, and I'm happy to say most of those have been resolved and things seem to be back to normal. I'm taking this lul in development to work on several long standing bugs and small features that I've wanted to include in WJ for some time.

I recently started reviewing the costs associated with Wabbajack and thought about how to keep this project sustainable. Once we take into account the costs of hosting the installers (most of which clock in at about 1GB each) running this project isn't something I can maintain out of my own pocket. And so I started analyzing how solutions like peer-to-peer distribution could be used to reduce these costs. But in the end the reduction in privacy (peers are aware of other peers in the network) and the associated social stigma of P2P tech made this approach less than desirable. So for now we'll continue as we have: the Patreon funds will be used to pay for the services of keeping WJ servers and CDN going. This service is free, and will always remain so, so a big "thank you!" to all our patrons who can afford to lend a hand in making this service free for everyone.

I'd still like to implement the "recipes" concept I described in a previous post, but I'm still formulating a few thoughts on how to streamline the process of creating and maintaining the feature.

Thanks once again, and I'm looking forward to the Wabbajack 1 year anniversary coming up in about 2 months!