I understand and know these are tight times, it is just that 1% of 100,000 is 1,000. The backing is just seeing 0.3+% of membership, that is what I am finding sad.
It's only been a few days! 50 more have pledged since you made that post, and we have 24 more days to go. I'm finding it the exact opposite to you - I'm finding it exciting and quite overwhelming!
Though if you are going to play with stats, registered users isn't the one to run with. Unique monthly visitors is - which is well over twice that number.