Hey all, I discovered something more than a bit annoying tonight, and I wanted to address it in case some of you have felt a bit left out. What I discovered is that Google for some reason has been classifying emails saying that we've received a donation as spam. This is really bad for a couple of reasons: First, because for the past few months, I had no idea that we were getting as many donations as we've gotten. Second, because I like to jot a short thank-you note to people who have made donations as a courtesy and to let them know that we got the donation.
So with that in mind, I want to apologize if you've sent a donation and not received any kind of acknowledgement from me that we got it. That's incredibly rude, and I assure you that it wasn't intentional. Second, over the next few days, I'm going to go back as far as I can and try to determine whether or not I've sent any kind of message to donors thanking them for their donations. If not, under the theory that it's better late than never, I'll try to drop as many thank-you emails as I can. I'll undoubtedly still miss sending some of you thank-you notes, but please be assured that it's not because we're not grateful, but because I've simply lost the record of it. In the meantime, I'm also marking as many emails as I can in the spam folder as "Not Spam" so that hopefully Google's heuristics will adjust and realize that I actually want these emails.
We're using most of this money to help defray the cost of hosting, and I'm going to ping Codewalker as soon as I see him online next time and find out if we can use some of it for... well, for "other things," internal CoH-related projects that have been ramping up.
Thanks again, and please accept my gratitude (and apology!) again, and I'll continue to post updates as I can.
