🚀 20,000 Stars – Thank You, Community!

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🚀 20,000 Stars – Thank You, Community!

We are proud (and honestly a little humbled) to share that our Community-Scripts project has reached 20,000 stars on GitHub! 🎉

What started as a continuation of a few helper scripts has grown into one of the largest, most active open-source ecosystems around Proxmox VE.
This milestone belongs to all of you – contributors, testers, maintainers, and everyone using our scripts in their homelabs or production environments.

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📊 What we’ve achieved together since the community takeover

• 📨 1,500+ issues and requests processed – with constructive feedback from the community.
• 📜 ~180 new scripts added to the repository.
• 🔄 ~80% of all scripts refactored and simplified, making them more robust and consistent.
• 🛠️ Introduced a huge set of new helpers (tools.func and others) to build a more stable and easier-to-maintain system.
• 🤝 Welcomed new maintainers and contributors, turning this into a true team project instead of a one-man show.

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🎯 Goals for the near future

• 📝 Clean subshell logging (no more messy outputs).
• 🧹 Continued refactoring for cleaner, more maintainable scripts.
• 🌐 A proper documentation website.
• 💻 A fully refactored project website.
• 🚀 And of course – many more exciting scripts and improvements!

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❤️ Community and Contributions

We deeply appreciate any contributions to the project—whether it’s bug reports, feature requests, documentation improvements, or spreading the word.
Your involvement helps keep the project alive and sustainable.

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💖 Funding & Giving Back

Open source takes time and energy – and we all do this next to our full-time jobs.
So far, the focus has been 100% on the project itself, but a funding.yml will soon be provided to make supporting us easier and more transparent.

Donations are used for project costs and infrastructure, but also for causes close to our hearts. While the idea was to donate at least 30% to charity, in reality we’ve already donated more than that:

• 💝 500 € donated to a children’s hospice (2×250 €).
• 🚒 250 € donated to a local fire brigade, supporting their work after a tragic accident where a house was rebuilt to be wheelchair accessible for a child.

These first donations focused on projects in Germany.
Future donations will be decided by our maintainers and will include projects from Austria, Switzerland, the Balkans, and the Netherlands – reflecting the truly international nature of our team.

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🙏 Special Thanks

A big shout-out to our core contributors & maintainers:

• @michelroegl-brunner (for your work and infrastructure)
• @tremor021 (for all of your work and refactors)
• @CrazyWolf13 (for maintaining and work of scripts)
• @bvdberg01 (for work and maintaining scripts)
• our website wizard @BramSuurdje
• and our “Immich slave” (hehe) @vhsdream 😄

And of course: thank you to everyone who opens issues, submits PRs, reports bugs properly, or simply uses the scripts.
Every single one of you makes this project what it is today.

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⭐ 20,000 stars is not the end – it’s just another milestone on our journey.
Here’s to the next 20k – and to building even better, cleaner, and more powerful tools for the Proxmox community.

— The Community-Scripts / ProxmoxVE Team