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+1 for purple, was the main color for the cipherpunk space thing few years ago, cipherpunk over monero all day anyday lol
and Naomi Brockwell still has on her wall in some of her vids the ravencoin art thing (which color composition around purple was actually next level, and was used as the actual pic for the cipherpunk space thing)

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@nolan That sounds fine to me. If it's any use to you, we could also throw in some free managed hosting/support for the hosting side.

@sepia thank you for the banner, will update it now. I dont know what community thinks about purple or orange color. Both of them okay for me :) I updated the banner now let me know if you wanna update again with alternative colors <3

@SpinningCat and @H1XMR thank you for feedback about the logo's color.

@Kodomu I will update the website soon with sponsor section, will mention ko-net.ws link and services. Thank you for interested for the project, right now I am using my own server and it's just hosting HTML, CSS. Maybe later I might need a development server for monero payment testing etc. I will let you know <3

@xenu Thank you for mentioning our project in your show. Whoever donated for xenu, Thank you <3. BTW, in that donation CCS refering the Monero Community Crowdfunding, I believe admin of gitlab instance should have to approve my account manually. If you guys didn't check the show, here

Also we got a big donation in our xmrchat page, whoever this generous person is, Thank you so much for your donation <3

I wanna share our total donations on our main wallet so community can track it. Total donations amount is: 2.532157450700 XMR in our main wallet (xmrchat + private wallet address on our website) and in my monero forum account has 0.001644137886 XMR. With 2 XMR, I am planning to pay our server costs, If we have more donations I might start paying myself and work on xmrstars project more than part time. As I mentioned before, my monthly cost around 3.3XMR :)

If community agrees on my idea about using that donation for payment on previous thread, I would like to pay to @sepia 0.0879868606 XMR for the work on banner and logo from our main wallet.

Thank you for trusting the project and to me all the time <3

Edit, Images not looking good here, uploaded here;
Main Wallet: https://xmrstars.com/assets/donations_06_17_26.png
Forum Wallet: https://xmrstars.com/assets/donations_06_17_26_forum.png

@nolan Gotcha nolan. I can revise it again but it may take some times. But glad that everyone like the purple color. I was thinking the star at the night sky so that how i choose that color.

Ohh man we got mentioned in the show? Thank you @xenu for the shoutout and the people that donate the project ❤️

Yeah I received a big donation.
I did roast the donator for writing like a zoomer lmao but hell yeah I want this project to succeed and I am following it!!

@nolan literally be liek:
https://xcancel.com/sovietsoleri/status/1681165902593822720#m
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@SpinningCat lmao, you'll never guess where he is at 😭😭🤣

@SpinningCat lol, i am just intern at xmrstars, my boss is community :)

btw I am back to Vietnam, probably will be here a while. I can have coffee with anybody :)

Thank you for tip @chillin <3

Hey everyone, sorry, took a while to get back here. I was sick couple weeks but thanks to medicine, I am recovering faster :) Please take care of your health, your health is most important thing in this world, nolan <3 every one of you guys here.

I wanna update what I been cooking, let's start with current donations and expenses. From last time to until now, we have couple donations to my monero.forum account, again thank you for all the donations <3. My monero.forum account has 0.002630055389 XMR and our main wallet has 2.447 XMR. Last time I donated (paid) @sepia 0.088 XMR for all the work on logo and banner <3. Here are screenshot of the main wallet and my monero.forum wallet :)

One announcement is I started using LLM on general. I know that I was kinda anti-AI kinda person last one-two years but while I was sick I had enough time to think and also test a bit and I realize LLMs are not that bad on simple/mid level tasks. Of course I don't use Claude Code or any other editors or vibe coding type of, I feel like whenever this type of editors have an access on your codebase, they are getting faster and making more mistakes. And of course I still reading and reviewing the code from LLM. Currently I can say around 30% of coming from LLM (Claude), maybe it can increase if code quality getting better on LLM. You guys can recommend me some tips and tricks on this, I am still noob on that :)

Now let's start with our new features. I always wanna implement random username feature like Mullvad VPN and I added. Whenever user visit registration pages, we are sending random username but if user wanna use them own username, ofc they can change it. Here is looks like:

Another feature is creating your post, it's very simple right now (just title and description) but I am thinking about adding video upload/image upload + filtering option to which users can see this posts. For example, when I wanna create a post to my fans, you can able to add that option on your create post page and only your fans will be able to see that, but you can set to everyone and everyone can see that post too. I assume it might be useful for creators.

Creator page also looks like this:

And this is the edit page:

Also recorded a video for every feature on this thread, you can watch it here: https://xmrstars.com/assets/julyupdate.webm

Another update on our official website. We added our first sponsor section @Kodomu. I added this text on website @Kodomu but if you wanna replace with anything else, please let me know.

Thank you Ko-Net for sponsoring us. Privacy focused, free-speech VPS hosting. No KYC, No email or personal details required, no resold hardware, instant VPS provisioning.

Thank you again for all the support to the project <3 And probably I made a lot of grammar mistakes on this post (as always), sorry about that :) I am really sleepy. <3

@nolan Awesome work like usual Nolan. Take a good rest alright, glad to know you're in speedy recovery now. I think using LLM to support the work is pretty reasonable because it gonna speed up the boring stuff. I sometimes order LLM to make a code but I don't understand most of the content the AI write. But when someone knew what that AI wrote, its power cannot be underestimated.