we have a lot of annual renewals in late-June / early-July, lining up with when we originally launched publicly.

they explained it in the post:

as was mentioned in past financial updates, it took a bit for our expenses to fully stabilize due to additional expenses around fundraising. this is where we expect it to stabilize.

their expenses in the past few months have not been representative of their average expenses. they said it was due to additional expenses around fundraising. idk if that means needing to pay for additional lawyers or paying for certain non-recurring things early because they finally had the money for it but regardless, they’ve been saying this about their expenses the whole time.

we have a lot of annual renewals in late-June / early-July, lining up with when we originally launched publicly.

the spike in revenue is because a lot of people’s annual subscriptions renew at the same point in time. they point out this is because cohost launched at that time, so that was when a lot of people started paying as soon as they started using cohost. i anticipate that next year we’ll see a smaller spike maybe during the month that the anonymous funder disappeared, since users started a big fundraising campaign then.

The link you've posted is a 404.

I think that's what the updated community guidelines are made to address, and I personally appreciate what staff have already said on this subject.

It's the first bullet point. Although what exactly made them that high was slightly vague but