Started writing out 2024 blogpost

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-TODO
+As we cross over yet another year boundary we look back at the progress, maintenance
+and funding of the project for 2024 with a view of potential plans in 2025:
 
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 ### Project Funding
 
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+I'm happy to say funding of the project has continued to grow in 2024.
+In [our 2023 post](/blog/bookstack-in-2023/) I mentioned general revenue
+(excluding taxes, costs etc...) has risen from £15k in 2022 to about £25.8k
+in 2023. In 2024 revenue totalled about £45.5k, so a significant revenue increase
+throughout the year! Here's the breakdown:
+
+
+![Chart showing a monthly breakdown of revenue, split between KoFi, Support services and GitHub Sponsors](/images/2025/01/2024-finances.png)
 
+Revenue from GitHub sponsors has grown to a monthly average of about £1.4k, providing
+a sizeable stable base of funding. Surprisingly, donations via Ko-Fi are down a bit on average,
+but are much more consistent compared to last year which reflects the increase of sponsorships
+and monthly donations via this method, yet fewer large one-off donations.
+
+Our main source of revenue though is from our [support services](https://www.bookstackapp.com/support/), which have over doubled
+in average revenue compared to 2023, and for the first time has provided income across
+every month of the year! A number of "Enterprise Support Plan" sales have really helped boost this, 
+along with a base of new and renewing "Professional Support Plan" customers.
+
+Overall this means, even after business costs and taxes, I'm now more than covering my living costs with a little extra to spare
+and I can now comfortably look at giving back more or thinking about project growth plans, both of which
+I talk about more later on in this post.
+
+Once again, a **massive thanks** to all those that have donated to or sponsored the project, as well as those
+that have purchased our support services. I am so grateful to be able to focus on open source work full time, and
+provide the project for free to anyone that finds it valuable, with no paywalls or barriers.
 
 ### Sharing of Funds
 
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+Now that there's some breathing room in the funding, I can now look to increase the financial support that gets 
+forwarded on to the projects & services BookStack depends upon.
+This is something I started when initially accepting donations, but I put further growth of this mostly on pause in late 2021 when leaving my job
+to focus on BookStack full time.
+
+After sorting my taxes a few months back (to ensure I still had some income left after paying the government) I started going back 
+over our dependencies and cover those where donations are accepted, as well as increasing donations to many previously set-up sponsorships
+via GitHub. My monthly GitHub sponsors bill has increased from $90 in September, to $226 in December.
+Upon this, I've increased a few larger one-off donations to projects/people that don't accept donations via GitHub.
+
+The change in forwarded funding represents us "catching up" with this scheme to ensure our dependencies are covered, but I plan
+to still continue this and scale it up with revenue, increasing existing donations and adding new projects where needed.
 
 ### New Features & Enhancements
 
-TODO
+Throughout 2024 we've published 4 feature releases, and 14 patch versions.
+The below list summarizes many of the most significant additions and changes made during these releases:
+
+- New WYSIWYG editor (alpha)
+- Portable ZIP import/export format
+- WYSWIYG comment editor
+- Video attachment stream support
+- Commands-based PDF export option
+- Browser opensearch support
+- Licenses view
+- Updated framework to Laravel 10
+- Welsh language support
+- Audit log API Endpoints
+
+Looking over these, my personal favourite has to be the portable ZIP import/export format
+[added in the last release](/blog/bookstack-release-v24-12/#new-importable-export-format),
+just due to the possibilities it can open up in regards to content portability and developer use.
+
+Compared to previous years, this list really isn't as long, but a big reason for this is down to the
+diverted effort in dealing with the [licensing change to our core WYSIWYG editor](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/4908).
+It's disappointing to see fewer big new features across 2024, but I'm trying to view it in the more positive light, that
+we're going into 2025 with a new core editor which we have a lot more control over to suit our future needs better.
+
+There's also the factor that as these years pass BookStack is becoming a more mature platform where stability
+and refinement take precedence over flashy new features.
 
 ### Website Usage & Audience Reach
 
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+- Decade of BookStack
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