date = 2024-07-12T11:30:00Z
+++
-TODO - Reference [last year post](/blog/8-years-of-bookstack/)
+Today the BookStack project becomes 9 years old! Like [last year's post](/blog/8-years-of-bookstack/), and the years before it,
+we'll take this as an opportunity to provide an update on the status of the project including the
+financials, current development status, and the growth figures.
+
+{{<toc>}}
### Financials
-TODO
+Below is the general high level financial monthly breakdown of my BookStack revenue sources (excluding costs, fees, taxes etc...)
+ranging from the start of 2022 until now:
[](/images/2024/07/finances.png)
+As you can see, this year's finances have gotten off to quite a good comparable start, with March and June reflecting large
+income spikes from support services. This is mainly thanks to a couple of businesses purchasing our enterprise support option
+which is priced at £4,500 per year. Upon that, the renewals and sign-ups for our professional support plan (£450/y) have
+helped continue to establish a nice recurring base income via support services.
+
+Donations and sponsorships across KoFi & GitHub sponsors has grown slightly when looking at the past 12 months,
+averaging about £1,328/m compared to the £1,211/m for the 12 months before that.
+In addition to some one-off donations, many of these are recurring yearly or monthly, which serves as a
+very welcome stable base of income.
+
+Overall, these increases mean that at 6 months into 2024, I've almost reached the level of income received for the
+whole of 2023.
+Thank you so much to all donators, sponsors, and those who support by purchasing the BookStack support offerings.
+The kind support from such folks has helped to assure a stable income source for me as I continue to work on BookStack.
+
+Currently I donate to open source services & libraries I use to help build BookStack, but this is rather minimal (~£100 per month)
+since I somewhat put it on pause a few years ago when leaving my last job to work on BookStack full time.
+Since I'm due to more than cover my living costs, later this year I plan to re-assess this element to scale this up again to help
+support & sustain the other project's we rely upon.
+
### Project Status Update
-TODO
+Right now my main efforts are in [attempting to build](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/pull/5058) an new editor
+for pages (and descriptions/comments) to replace our existing WYSIWYG editor, based upon TinyMCE,
+which [changed licenses](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/4908) earlier this year.
+
+This new editor is built using [lexical](https://lexical.dev/) as a foundation, but every part of the UI is custom-built.
+So far this is going okay, but there's still a fair way to go.
+My aim is to match the existing WYSIWYG editor in both functionality and general UI to start with, and then we can improve & build
+upon this in future when things are stable to fully take advantage of the control and features that we'd gain from this new editor.
+There ultimately will be an element of breaking change, especially in lesser trodden edge-case scenarios, but I want to make this minimal.
+
+My plan is to introduce the editor as an additional non-default editor option in alpha status, then switch that to beta status after
+a round of feedback and fixes (still non-default), then change the default to the new editor once things are stable
+(leaving the old editor as an option for a few releases) before eventually removing the old editor after a few releases
+of stable overlap.
+
+If you'd like to see the progress so far, I show off the current state in my video here:
+
+TODO - Video
+
+### On the Tech over Tea Podcast
+
+In June I spoke to Brodie Robertson on his Tech Over Tea podcast.
+This was mainly to talk about open source, and a [blogpost I had written](https://danb.me/blog/futo-open-source-definition/) to Futo
+regarding their attempts to change what open source means, but we also talk about BookStack and specifically I
+touch on many of my thoughts in regards to licensing around BookStack:
+
+{{<yt WhCcvzT3IaE>}}
+
### BookStack, In Numbers
Like we do on each BookStack birthday, we'll dive into the numbers once again to see how BookStack has grown over the past year.
-The below figures were collected at the time of writing *(12th July 2024)*, with changes in <strong style="color:red;">red</strong>/<strong style="color:green;">green</strong> reflecting change upon last year's numbers.
+The below figures were collected at the time of writing *(8th July 2024)*, with changes in <strong style="color:red;">red</strong>/<strong style="color:green;">green</strong> reflecting change upon last year's numbers.
#### GitHub Figures
-TODO - Below Old
-
-- [11,816 GitHub stars](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/stargazers) <strong style="color: green;">+2,168</strong>
-- [1,544 forks on GitHub](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/network/members) <strong style="color: green;">+222</strong>
-- 4,378 GitHub issues and PRs opened <strong style="color: green;">+714</strong>
-- 3,181 GitHub issues closed (<strong style="color: green;">+689</strong>), 401 currently open (<strong style="color: red;">-7</strong>)
-- [168 releases published](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/releases) <strong style="color: green;">+21</strong>
-- 3,663 (<strong style="color: green;">-3,456</strong>) git clones in the last 14 days, 1,127 (<strong style="color: green;">+77</strong>) unique
+- [14,310 GitHub stars](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/stargazers) <strong style="color: green;">+2,494</strong>github
+- [1,810 forks on GitHub](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/network/members) <strong style="color: green;">+266</strong>
+- 5,106 GitHub issues and PRs opened <strong style="color: green;">+728</strong>
+- 3,669 GitHub issues closed (<strong style="color: green;">+488</strong>), 540 currently open (<strong style="color: green;">+139</strong>)
+- [190 releases published](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/releases) <strong style="color: green;">+22</strong>
#### Code Repository Stats
-TODO - Below Old
-
-- [4,128 commits](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/commits/development) <strong style="color: green;">+798</strong>
-- 157 direct git contributors <strong style="color: green;">+9</strong>
+- [4,594 commits](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/commits/development) <strong style="color: green;">+466</strong>
+- 175 direct git contributors <strong style="color: green;">+18</strong>
#### Social
-TODO - Below Old
-
-- [3,139 Discord members](https://discord.gg/ztkBqR2) <strong style="color: green;">+752</strong>
-- [974 Subreddit members](https://www.reddit.com/r/BookStack/) <strong style="color: green;">+435</strong>
-- [1,410 YouTube channel subscribers](https://www.youtube.com/c/BookStackApp) <strong style="color: green;">+977</strong>
-- [497 Twitter Followers](https://twitter.com/bookstack_app) <strong style="color: green;">+186</strong>
-- [235 Mastodon Followers](https://fosstodon.org/@bookstack) <strong style="color: green;">+235</strong>
+- [3,553 Discord members](https://discord.gg/ztkBqR2) <strong style="color: green;">+414</strong>
+- [1,562 Subreddit members](https://www.reddit.com/r/BookStack/) <strong style="color: green;">+588</strong>
+- [2,188 YouTube channel subscribers](https://www.youtube.com/c/BookStackApp) <strong style="color: green;">+778</strong>
+- [620 Twitter Followers](https://twitter.com/bookstack_app) <strong style="color: green;">+123</strong>
+- [556 Mastodon Followers](https://fosstodon.org/@bookstack) <strong style="color: green;">+321</strong>
#### Website Analytics
-TODO - Below Old
-
Main bookstackapp.com site only, Averaged over last 90 days:
-- 1,230 unique users per day <strong style="color: green;">+153</strong>
-- 3,205 page views per day <strong style="color: green;">+446</strong>
+- 1,417 unique users per day <strong style="color: green;">+187</strong>
+- 3,542 page views per day <strong style="color: green;">+337</strong>
- Operating system breakdown:
-- 55% Windows <strong style="color: green;">+3%</strong>
-- 18% Mac <strong style="color: red;">-1%</strong>
-- 10% Android <strong style="color: red;">-1%</strong>
-- 10% Linux
-- 7% iOS/iPadOS <strong style="color: red;">-1%</strong>
+ - 55% Windows
+ - 18% Mac
+ - 9% Android <strong style="color: red;">-1%</strong>
+ - 9% Linux <strong style="color: red;">-1%</strong>
+ - 8% iOS/iPadOS <strong style="color: green;">+1%</strong>
[Our full website analytics can be found here.](https://analytics.bookstackapp.com/bookstackapp.com)
#### CrowdIn (Project Translations) Numbers
-TODO - Below Old
-
-- 42 languages <strong style="color: green;">+3</strong>
-- 7,172 words to translate <strong style="color: green;">+961</strong>
-- 289 project members <strong style="color: green;">+83</strong>
+- 46 languages <strong style="color: green;">+4</strong>
+- 8,059 words to translate <strong style="color: green;">+887</strong>
+- 337 project members <strong style="color: green;">+48</strong>
#### Thoughts on the Numbers
-TODO
+Like last year, no major surprises here really.
+It's good to see continued steady growth in general across most of these figures,
+even though I've out very little effort into any kind of marketing & outreach in the last
+year. I was concerned these may slip, as BookStack becomes a more mature/stable project which
+doesn't make headlines via big new additions or from being a new option, but growth has retained which is great.
### Further Reading
projects / website / commitdiff
