Open Collective

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COLLECTIVE
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Fiscal Host: Open Source Collective

We are a scripting consortium that builds public code and resources for the Kingdom of Loathing playerbase.

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Recurring contribution
User

Yes literally a dollar a year from most of our users would make our current projects self-sustaining, though consider a monthly donation to fund ou... Read more

$1 USD / year

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Backer

A dollar a month makes a huge difference. Currently our core infrastructure needs would be met by relatively few backers at this level.

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$1 USD / month

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Sponsor

It turns out as a community we love to write code, and a donation like this will help us say "yes" to some really crazy ideas in the future. Anyway... Read more

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$5 USD / month

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Top financial contributors

1
Aaron McGuire

$325 USD since Sep 2023

2
Busta_Rhymes

$155.47 USD since May 2024

3
Ben

$136 USD since Jan 2024

4
zarefore

$105 USD since Jan 2024

5
Haxxi

$94 USD since Nov 2023

6
Matt Lewis

$70 USD since Nov 2023

7
Joe

$56 USD since Nov 2023

8
James Downey

$50 USD since Oct 2023

9
Eric Lampert

$50 USD since Jun 2024

10
Kyle

$50 USD since Jun 2025

11
Anon player

$20 USD since Dec 2023

12
Guest

$20 USD since Jan 2026

13
zincaito

$12 USD since Dec 2023

14
Quelzie

$12 USD since Jan 2024

15
Jackson

$4 USD since Dec 2025

loathers is all of us

Our contributors 16

Thank you for supporting loathers.

Aaron McGuire

Admin

$325 USD

Sam Zislis-Gaus

Admin

Busta_Rhymes

sponsor

$155 USD

Ben

sponsor

$136 USD

zarefore

sponsor

$105 USD

Haxxi

backer

$94 USD

Matt Lewis

sponsor

$70 USD

Joe

backer

$56 USD

James Downey

$50 USD

Eric Lampert

$50 USD

Kyle

sponsor

$50 USD

Anon player

$20 USD

Budget

Transparent and open finances.

Monthly financial contribution to loathers (backer)

Credit from Jackson to loathers •

+$1.00USD
Completed
Contribution #914423
Monthly financial contribution to loathers (sponsor)

Credit from Kyle to loathers •

+$5.00USD
Completed
Contribution #862398

Hetzner Feb 2026

Category
Hosting & Subscriptions
from Sam Zislis-Gaus to loathers •
-€31.91 EUR
$37.08 USD
Paid
$
Today’s balance

$434.19 USD

Total raised

$929.55 USD

Total disbursed

$495.36 USD

Estimated annual budget

$337.44 USD

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News from loathers

Updates on our activities and progress.

Happy 2025!

Just dropping a quick note to say that I've upgraded our hosting to double the CPU and memory. It costs about $7 more a month. I am also considering adding some separate bucket storage for our database backups. If I do so that'll be $5 a mo...
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Published on November 14, 2025 by Sam Zislis-Gaus

Coolify credits

Hey all, Quick update - Coolify (our open source PaaS) is doing a collab with Hetzner which means we 12 euros in free credits. Next month's bill will be much lower than normal (< 5 dollars). Yay! Sam
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Published on June 4, 2024 by Sam Zislis-Gaus

Scaling up our resources

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Published on January 10, 2024 by Sam Zislis-Gaus

Conversations

Let’s get the discussion going! This is a space for the community to converse, ask questions, say thank you, and get things done together.

About your application to Open Source Collective

Published on September 22, 2023 by Grace

Hi Aaron and Sam, thank you for your application to Open Source Collective. In order to approve your application, we need a guarantee that your project does not and will not provide direct access to copyrighted material without the express...

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About

Welcome to the Loathers Scripting Collective. We are a group of coders who play and contribute to a long-running browser game, the Kingdom of Loathing. This OpenCollective exists in order to fund our open source scripting projects that support KOL and its users. Across our large team of volunteer coders, we maintain a variety of free community tools and resources. Many of our tools require backend hosting and small fiscal support. This OpenCollective will be used to facilitate that!

Specifically, we envision it being used for hosting costs, server costs, and other Loathers expenses as necessary. We promise to always be fully transparent about how we use our funds, and ensure we actively engage our community as we continue to build out our open source community resources. If you'd like to get in touch with us, our contributors hang out on the Ascension Speed Society discord. 

Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

Our team

Aaron McGuire

Admin

Sam Zislis-Gaus

Admin