@dcent

Even more, the typical use case of micro-blogging, which is ephemeral by nature, makes this kind of services not particulary well suited for keeping (and offering) a lot of data for a long time. I mean, if you try to go back into the public timeline, you'll see that after 10 pages you won't have passed even 15 days. Sure, some users (as yourself) wish for a longer "memory" of the notices but, given the situation, I think it is not realistic to expect that outcome. As @lxo said, maybe a blog (even combined with social media) would be a better tool for the needs you have.

Doing some math, I think the machine we are using could hold about 500 accounts (around 40% of them being regular users). We don't want to become a mega-server like some Mastodon ones; 500 accounts would be a good number to close registrations and maybe consider opening another server. Anyway, that only would be possible by adding more disk space (it is cheap, but it would increase the monthly expenses) and by getting a bigger and more constant income from donations.

That is what we can offer :)

P.D. I'm trully amazed that I've needed to cut this into two posts. I didn't think that I would ever need so many characters... Sorry if I digress too much, this topics are always "flying around" in my head.

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