Sorry the news post took longer to get up than the actual feature, we are apparently much slower writers than is a programmer. Hopefully the news answers some of the questions that were posed here, and people take the bar for what it is - a tracker of what you're already doing as supporters, and an indication on where we need to go to continue to grow and get better!

That will absolutely remove other progress bars around the site :)

There is absolutely a way to remove it, but I'm not giving it a separate tag. It's there for a reason ;)

Separately, thank you for the feedback everyone! We quickly realized that having it on the sidebar was way too much, and moved it to the news page. I still think that it's cool information for everyone to know (we're going to add the actual % in the next couple of minutes).

Our two biggest expenses are payroll (paying all of the staff + taxes + medicare + unemployment insurance + all of that stuff) and then servers.

Oh, for sure. We chose daily for a lot of reasons. A few purchases can make the bar move pretty rapidly, there is always going to be progress, and it feels a lot better to see something full.

Weekly and monthly your single purchases would have almost no impact on the bar moving, and it's a lot less cool to see it in red for an entire middle-of-the-month week.

Daily is a good indicator, but like we said in the news post, there are going to be days when it's red and we totally know that / understand why that happens, and days when it shoots to 100% in the first few hours of the day.