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apps/docs/public/welcome-channel.yaml

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     Support: https://support.modrinth.com
     Status page: https://status.modrinth.com
     Roadmap: https://roadmap.modrinth.com
-    Blog and newsletter: https://blog.modrinth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=social&utm_source=discord&utm_campaign=welcome
+    Blog and newsletter: https://modrinth.com/news
     API documentation: https://docs.modrinth.com
     Modrinth source code: https://github.com/modrinth
     Help translate Modrinth: https://crowdin.com/project/modrinth

apps/frontend/content.config.ts

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+import { defineContentConfig, defineCollection, z } from "@nuxt/content";
+
+export default defineContentConfig({
+  collections: {
+    news: defineCollection({
+      type: "page",
+      source: "news/article/**/*.md",
+      schema: z.object({
+        title: z.string(),
+        short_title: z.string(),
+        summary: z.string(),
+        short_summary: z.string(),
+        thumbnail: z.string(),
+        date: z.date(),
+      }),
+    }),
+  },
+});

apps/frontend/content/news/article/accelerating-development.md

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+---
+title: Accelerating Modrinth's Development
+summary: Our fundraiser and the future of Modrinth!
+date: 2023-02-01T12:00:00-08:00
+---
+
+**Update: On [April 4, 2024](/news/article/capital-return) we announced that we had returned the remaining $800k in investor capital back to our investors to take a different path. [Read that announcement here](/news/article/capital-return). This article remains here for archival purposes.**
+
+---
+
+There are over 3 billion gamers worldwide, but only a small fraction ever go further and mod the games they play. Modrinth is here to bring modding to every player on the planet—all the while allowing mod creators to make a living off of it.
+
+Since our founding in 2020 and up until a few months ago, Modrinth has been a purely volunteer project. In the past couple months, the Modrinth team has been more productive than ever. We've released the [Anniversary Update](../two-years-of-modrinth), we're actively working on the launcher once more, and we're laying out plans for how to multiply Modrinth creator payouts.
+
+The vision we have for the future of Modrinth is great, and right alongside that is the need for an amazing team to build out this vision. That's why we [recently announced](https://x.com/modrinth/status/1615416957905342472) that [we're hiring](https://careers.modrinth.com)—we've already come so far on just volunteer work, but for Modrinth to be sustainable and for its growth to be sustainable, we need to pick up the pace.
+
+That's why we're excited to announce that we've raised a pre-seed round of funding led by [Makers Fund](https://www.makersfund.com/), with investors including [Ryan Johnson](https://x.com/ryanmjohnson), [Stephen Cole](https://x.com/sthenc), [Pim de Witte](https://x.com/PimDeWitte), [Chris Lee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/leechris1/), and [Andreas Thorstensson](https://x.com/andreas) to accelerate development and expand to new horizons for Modrinth.
+
+## What's next?
+
+We're thrilled to keep on building and iterating on Modrinth over the next few years. Here's a look into what we have in store over the next few months for Modrinth:
+
+- A feature-packed launcher
+- Creator organizations (like GitHub), wikis, graphs (with playtime, views, downloads, etc)
+- More creator payouts, through the growth of Adrinth
+- Discovery/recommendation of mods (especially up-and-coming content)
+- Comments (with built-in moderation and spam protection)
+- \[Redacted]
+
+Support for new games!
+
+We are excited that we are able to build a product that will manage to grow us to sustainability and create the best modding experience for creators and users. Being able to pay ourselves and bring on new people is a big step in making that happen. There is still a lot to do, so let's get to it!
+
+## Q&A:
+
+We know there might be some concerns so we included a short Q&A section below for some common ones. Feel free to ask in our [Discord](https://discord.modrinth.com) if you have any more questions!
+
+### Why does Modrinth need funding?
+
+Our main expense is and will continue to be salaries. The labor cost has always been the main bottleneck for Modrinth. Having paid employees will allow us to develop Modrinth faster, bringing Modrinth to a point of sustainability and growing the platform. For example, we're planning to release our launcher this year, and eventually we're hoping to expand into more games. Those won't be possible without having paid employees.
+
+### Is Modrinth still community-first?
+
+We started and always will have the goal of creating a community-oriented, open-source modding platform. Simply put, there isn't any reason for us not to be. It's clear that the previous impersonal, corporate approaches to video game modding have not worked, and Modrinth is excited to change that.
+
+### Will Modrinth still be open-source?
+
+Yes! We are committed to having all (when possible) our current code and future code we write to be open-source. Copyright is held by the contributors as we have no [CLA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement), so we cannot make it closed-source (even if we wanted to) without, well, violating the law.
+
+### Who's behind Modrinth?
+
+The Modrinth team (currently consisting of Prospector, Emma, and Geometrically) is behind Modrinth. We've been modding Minecraft for years, with connections extending back to grade school. Investors have a minority stake in the company, and have no control or say in our decisions.
+
+### Is Modrinth going to adopt web3/cryptocurrency?
+
+No. We have no plans to adopt or explore web3 for Modrinth.
+
+### Will investment money be used to fund creator payouts?
+
+Not directly. Hiring more people will allow us to build up the infrastructure that can increase payouts, but the money we pay out to creators will always come from sustainable sources such as advertising and never from investment funds.

apps/frontend/content/news/article/becoming-sustainable.md

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+---
+title: Quintupling Creator Revenue and Becoming Sustainable
+short_title: Becoming Sustainable
+summary: Announcing an update to our monetization program, creator split, and more!
+short_summary: Announcing 5x creator revenue and updates to the monetization program.
+thumbnail: ./thumbnail.webp
+date: 2024-09-13T12:00:00-08:00
+---
+
+Just over 3 weeks ago, we [launched](/news/article/introducing-modrinth-refreshed-site-look-new-advertising-system) our new ads powered by [Aditude](https://www.aditude.com/). These ads have allowed us to improve creator revenue drastically and become sustainable. Read on for more info!
+
+## Creator Revenue
+
+We’re excited to share we have been able to increase creator revenue by 5-8x what it was before!
+
+There’s a couple changes to how revenue is distributed out to creators coming with this increase.
+
+First, revenue is no longer entirely paid out the day they are earned. Previously, we used our own in-house advertisement deal which paid us in advance for the entire month, and we divided that among each day in the month, as the month progressed. With the switch to a more traditional ad network, we are paid on a NET 60 basis, which is fairly standard with ad networks. What this means is that some of your revenue may be pending until the ad network pays us out. Exactly how this works is explained further [here](legal/cmp-info#pending).
+
+Second, the revenue split between Modrinth and Creators has changed. See the next section on sustainability for more on this.
+
+![Some creators have wondered if the new revenue is a bug because it’s gone up so much!](./abnormally-high-revenue.webp)
+
+## Becoming Sustainable
+
+We have updated the Modrinth creator revenue split from 90/10 to 75/25. However, all of the increases listed above are with the new rate included, so while the percentage is lower, the overall revenue is much, much higher.
+
+While 90% is a more remarkable figure, we changed it in order to ensure we can keep running Modrinth and continue to grow creator revenue without having to worry about losing money on operational costs.
+
+Through these changes, we are proud to announce Modrinth is now fully sustainable with the new income, with all hosting and operational costs accounted for (including paying our developers, moderators, and support staff!) With the new revenue, users will see reduced support times and we will be able to ship bigger and better updates quicker to you all!
+
+In an effort to be more transparent with our community than ever before, we are opening up as many of our finances as possible so you all can know how we’re doing and where all the money is going. We’re working to develop a transparency page on our website for you to view all the graphs and numbers, but it wasn’t ready in time for this blog post (for now, you can view our site-wide ad revenue in the API [here](https://api.modrinth.com/v3/payout/platform_revenue). We also plan to publish monthly transparency reports with more details about our revenue and expenses, the first of which should be available in early October, so keep an eye out for that.
+
+For now, we can tell you that creators on Modrinth have earned a total of $160,868 on Modrinth to date (as of September 13, 2024), and here’s a graph of our revenue from the past 30 days:
+
+![Modrinth Advertising Revenue (last 30 days)](./revenue.webp)
+
+We have a lot of exciting things coming up still, and of course, we greatly appreciate all of your support!

apps/frontend/content/news/article/capital-return.md

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+---
+title: A Sustainable Path Forward for Modrinth
+summary: Our capital return and what’s next.
+date: 2024-04-04T12:00:00-08:00
+---
+
+Over three years ago, I started Modrinth: a new Minecraft modding platform built on community principles, a fully open-source codebase, and a focus on creators.
+
+What started as a hobby project quickly grew into something much bigger, with over twelve thousand creators and millions of players modding their game with Modrinth! Running Modrinth quickly evolved into a full-time job as we worked to scale the platform, develop new features, and fix bugs.
+
+As our small project that originated in the Fabric Discord server started to get more and more serious, we decided to seek funding to accelerate growth and keep up with the competition. A year and a half ago, we raised a $1.2 million [pre-seed round](/news/article/accelerating-development) of investor capital. With the money, we hired full-time developers and part-time community members, some of whom have supported Modrinth since the very beginning. With all this support, we launched creator monetization, authentication, analytics, organizations, collections, the Modrinth App, and support for more project types, growing Modrinth’s user base fifteen-fold!
+
+But, this rapid growth came at some costs. We let sustainable infrastructure for moderation slip to the back-burner since we could just hire extra moderators to compensate, and more and more of my time as the founder was taken up by things that didn’t make Modrinth better. Bugs and technical debt also gradually infected our codebase as we focused on hyper-growth over maintenance.
+
+Alongside this, as we looked more into the future, we saw that the venture-backed cycle wouldn’t be the right path for Modrinth. Every investor invests in a company with the expectation of a return on their investment, and while all of our backers have been incredibly supportive, we wanted to be able to work on Modrinth at our own pace and terms. We’ve seen other companies in this space prioritize profits and growth at the expense of the community and creators, and we didn’t want this to happen to Modrinth.
+
+In short, forgoing the venture route would allow us to build Modrinth independently at a sustainable pace and put our creators, community, open-source nature, and values first, without having to worry about expectations of profit or growth.
+
+In the end, as of February 1st, 2024, I decided to return $800k in remaining investor capital back to our investors.
+
+This decision was not an easy one, as without this funding, we would be unable to support the Modrinth team as it previously existed. With this reality, I made the difficult decision to significantly reduce the size of our team to match our goals of sustainable growth.
+
+I also owe a huge debt of gratitude to everyone on the team affected by all of this–Emma, Wyatt, Maya, Coolbot, Jade, Carter, and Prospector–for everything they have done to help make Modrinth what it is today.
+
+I want to take a moment to highlight each of their contributions:
+
+- Emma was our lead moderator, social media manager, overall marketing lead, blog post writer, documentation maintainer, Minotaur maintainer, and support manager since joining the team in April 2021
+- Wyatt was a full-time backend developer that worked on our authentication system, analytics, collections, organizations, and tons of work on API v3, and more, since joining the team in February 2023
+- Maya was our first exclusive moderator hire, and despite a rough onboarding due to a lack of internal documentation and procedures on our side, had reviewed thousands of projects since joining the team in April 2023
+- Coolbot was another one of our moderators who especially helped us establish new procedures and improved internal documentation for moderators and had also reviewed thousands of projects since they joined the team in August 2023
+- Jade was also a moderator and had reviewed thousands of projects since joining the team in August 2023
+- Carter was a full-time frontend developer that worked on OAuth, analytics, collections, organizations, and more, since joining the team in October 2023
+- Prospector is our frontend developer and lead designer, who has been with us since September 2020 and has spearheaded multiple site redesigns, developed the frontend for core parts of the site, and more
+
+This transition was challenging, causing significant delays in project reviews and support ticket resolution, not to mention the stress for the former team. While project review and support times have returned to normal, this was not the experience we wanted for our creators or users to have. I sincerely apologize that you all had to experience this transition, and I wish that it had been executed more smoothly.
+
+I would also like to apologize for how long this post has taken to come out. It took longer than I expected to do all the legal work and coordination necessary to return the remaining money to the investors, but it has finally been finished.
+
+Going forward, we will be continuing to build a platform that is sustainable for both the creators and all the people who work on making the platform what it is. Hosting Modrinth is already sustainable, and we are working to make developing Modrinth sustainable as well.
+
+We’ve made great strides in this already with new moderation infrastructure including AutoMod and a built-in moderator checklist, greatly reducing moderator time per project. We’re also focused on increased transparency, through providing consistent updates on Modrinth’s development and making it easier to contribute to Modrinth with better documentation and contribution cycle.
+
+We started Modrinth to serve the community, and are taking this path so we can continue to. We hope you all will continue to support us as the newly independent Modrinth.
+
+—
+
+**Jai (aka Geometrically)**  
+Founder of Modrinth