"Initially we assumed this endeavor could be housed by a single Excel file...."

What?! Are you sure dev.to is a community of developers?

I can understand the part about character encoding (it has happen to all of us...) but seems like a lot of the issues they had could have been avoided by applying some software development skills...

Still, it is very nice that you decided to give away stickers for free, being on the recipient side is a nice feeling, I remember from the time Canonical shipped free Ubuntu disks!