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THE CROWDFUNDED EPYC IS LIVE

THE CROWDFUNDED EPYC IS LIVE

Last January we started a fund raising campaign to raise money for an updated server to help host GitGud and it's over 10,000+ projects. We were able to raise enough funds by April to make our first purchase. Thanks to your support, we were able to buy

2021 Needs and Growth: New server needs to support today and into the future

Engineering Featured

2021 Needs and Growth: New server needs to support today and into the future

Sapphire needs a new denser server for GitGud, Mixtape, and Tavrn and we're starting a GoFundMe campaign to raise the funds to increase our server capacity for 2021 and onward.

Sapphire 2019 Data Breach

What Happened? When we converted our Apache configuration to NGINX, we used an automated tool and it did not convert the "no PHP execution access" on our avatar and cover uploads. This allowed a 3rd party to upload and execute a PHP shell in which they could possibly

Mixtape's Future

Mixtape's Future

> We're sorry we have have been quiet for the past year. We'd like to discuss why that is in another post. In this post we will be discussing more immediate matters relating to Mixtape.moe. -Mike Our recent abuse reports have established a pattern of

Migrating blog platforms

Migrating blog platforms

We've started a migration from one blog platform to another. To view our previous posts in the meantime, you can visit: https://blog-archive.sapphire.moe [https://blog-archive.sapphire.moe/] We'll migrate the posts over as well.

Changelog – Tavrn – 4-27-2018

Changelog – Tavrn – 4-27-2018

t’s been just a week since the initial launch of Tavrn Tap and we’ve been really busy testing, fixing, and working on improvements for Tap. New Features * The Guild Directory * Started work on Desktop Notifications * Mute a user * Broadcast message to Tavrn Changes * New Composer Design * Guild channel

Introducing Tavrn Tap

Introducing Tavrn Tap

The past month has been exciting and chaotic. In just a month, we went from an idea we had during a casual conversation to a usable product, of which we will be releasing the first initial beta version as of right now. Today, we are introducing Tavrn Tap [https://tap.

Spring 2018 Update

Spring 2018 Update

The last 4 months have been very busy and productive, for us here at Sapphire, and we couldn’t have done it without your support. Your donations make everything we do here at Sapphire possible and we would just like to thank everyone that helps contribute. Whether it’s funding

December Update – Tavrn development, Sapphire Podcast, and more

December Update – Tavrn development, Sapphire Podcast, and more

What’s up everyone, it’s been a very busy month for us. We’re working hard and fast now on our projects, especially Tavrn.gg [https://tavrn.gg/]. We’ve made a lot of progress in just the past month, even if we’ve been a little quiet on

September Update – State of Mixtape and current events

September Update – State of Mixtape and current events

It’s been a while. So much happened in April, I broke the post into 3 different posts and then just was too overwhelmed to finish them. The summer has brought various fixes to our Accounts SSO (Single Sign On) system. Also a lot of GitGud support issues. Stuff being

March Update – Important Upcoming GitGud Changes

March Update – Important Upcoming GitGud Changes

The end of March is here (and past) already and we’re posting and update post to catch you all up with what’s new and what’s about to happen. Upcoming April changes with GitGud * We’re going to stop sign ups on GitGud.io starting April 15th. * They

February Update - 2017

February Update - 2017

We’re approaching the end of February, and we’ve been fire fighting all throughout this month. We want to give you all an update on what’s been happening. Lost Hardware We lost Casper (mark 3) at the beginning of this month. The price had gone up (almost doubled)

Situation Update for January - 2017

Situation Update for January - 2017

We’re approaching the end of January, and we’re starting to have fires pop up. I want to detail some of the issues and obstacles we are now currently facing. Cloudflare Cloudflare is not very happy with us. They have recently contacted us about our bandwidth usage and asked

December 1st, 2016 Update

December 1st, 2016 Update

It’s been awhile since we communicated, sorry about that! In between the last information post and now, we had a position seeking post that had some insights. It’s December 1st, and I want to update you all on what has happened, what is happening, and some stuff on

Join Us! We’re looking for a development partner to take Mixtape to the next level

Join Us! We’re looking for a development partner to take Mixtape to the next level

> Status of this position: Closed We’re looking for development partner to help take our top 30k website (via Alexa [https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mixtape.moe]) with 45.1 million unique visitors per month to the next level. What we’re looking for – Comfortable with small teams – Experience

Rule of Acquisition #125 – You can’t make a deal if you’re dead

Rules of Aquisition

Rule of Acquisition #125 – You can’t make a deal if you’re dead

> Rule of Acquisition #125: You can’t make a deal if you’re dead. To be a donations based organization. You need to be able to accept donations. So we had to put together a campaign to raise funding. Putting together a crowdfunding campaign isn’t easy. Who are

Rule of Acquisition #3: Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to.

Rule of Acquisition #3: Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to.

One of the things that got me interested in Sapphire was Michael’s openness about talking about his infrastructure and how much he was spending to host his services. > Here’s the layout of the servers soon.http://t.co/wERmVLyqou [https://t.co/wERmVLyqou] will get it’s