Why would you do this?
Look, I value HiveSQL very much. I use it for hivedapps.com. I paid for it in the past and I'm glad that it's "free" now. You raised the price initially from 10 SBD to 20 SBD and then to 40 SBD, due to the broken peg (~0.5 I think), but even with a functioning peg you didn't go back as you argued it's due to higher costs.
The HiveSQL proposal has been funded for 5 months. 5 x 3000 HBD * 1.2 (rough peg) = 18000 USD. In Oct 2020, a month before the proposal got funded, you had 11 subscriptions x 40 HBD = 440$ income - compared to now 3600$ per month.
Are you telling us that you went through all the funds already or that the infrastructure costs increased 8x, that you had to break applications by making HiveSQL paid again?
I don't know how much of the 4950 HBD per month for HiveBuzz is going to you. Even just 50% of it would be a very nice chunk of money. Add to that your TOP20 witness pay and you get 3 different sources of income from Hive.
This should be well enough, for you to easily cover any "pause" of proposals, even ones that are done because you got paid above peg in the past.
Edit: Read your witness update. Sorry to hear that you're not too well. Wish you a good recovery. Considering that you'd not be able to actively work on HiveBuzz and the proposal probably not going to get unvoted because of that, it can be used to cover any potential "debt" accumulated over the time your proposals are paused.
Exactly, I was using paid sql subscription for a very long time, and sometimes I was checking how many people is using it and suming up the sub fees that were going to arcange's wallet.. it was WAY lower than arcange is ecpecting to get from DHF. I was silent till now. It is ridicoulus, the funding of this project from dhf is way too high in my opinion. If I'm wrong I'm gonna ask for cost details.
Adding up the subscription fees received to assess the cost of a project like HiveSL is not the right way to proceed. As I explained in my numerous posts, I first funded it by myself, then compensated the difference between the subscriptions and the real costs of this project, all this out of my own pocket for years.
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Steem's history, all the other projects that proposed something similar for free, and which sometimes even received more money than what I collected with the subscription, broke their necks and disappeared. It is only because I am an enthusiast and money is not my driver that HiveSQL is still here.Free has a cost, and those have been detailed in the proposal. Not happy with the proposal and its services, do not vote for it and ask for your HiveSQL account removal.
Is sort of because of this the reason https://hivedata.space/ is kind of stuck? What do you need to continue that service? Punch me in the face anywhere.
Doing what?
Did I complain about the proposal temporarily not being funded?
Have I let applications that rely on HiveSQL crash because of this?
It is quite the opposite that my post describes and I invite you to read it again.
PS: Thank you for worrying about my health, but I assure you, I am not on the verge of death either.
I just have to take care of myself, stop living pedal to the metal and (try to) get some rest. Reason vs passion, something you may know about.
It was my impression that you manually went back to subscription mode. Did you write some code that checked whether the proposal was funded and toggled subscription mode? If that's the case, sorry for coming to the wrong conclusion, though that part of the code should have been disabled. (My guess is that you added it after/before you initially created the proposal)