.fmbot

 .fmbot is an open-sourced bot used for accessing statistics from last.fm and other services.
It gets used over 150.000 times a day and has over 90.000 registered users. On average 200 new servers add .fmbot and 500 new users register every day.

We created this OpenCollective so we can professionalize our bot hosting while still remaining fully open and transparent about any financial contributions. Currently, the bot is hosted on an older server that will start to limit bot growth and could be starting to become a limiting factor for features to be expanded.

New features that might be coming in the future also require us to have more and faster storage for our database. Storing music data for this many users is starting to get limited by the server power that's currently available.

So that's why we want to switch to a faster server, with more storage and more processing power. This is however pretty expensive, which is why we have created this collective. All contributions will only go towards bot and server expenses.

Also, we want to emphasize that we will never lock commands behind a paywall.
.fmbot will always stay completely free and open source.

Note: If at any point you would like to ask questions or discuss this OpenCollective, feel free to join our server.