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Donations make up a quarter of my income

by duopixel on 9/14/21, 3:23 PM with 17 comments

• by canada_dry on 9/14/21, 9:34 PM

  > backers receive no benefits, rewards, or access to exclusive content. They don’t even get a thank you email.

  I've sent donations (e.g. $25-$100 via papyal) to open source and technical folks and only once received a reply (thank you) back.

  I suppose it shouldn't disappoint me, but it does and thus I'm much less likely to bother.

• by dewey on 9/14/21, 4:19 PM

  For OP: the about page is 404'ing https://method.ac/about/

• by mistrial9 on 9/14/21, 6:10 PM

  when I had post-adolescent support systems in place, long ago, the donation system made so much sense to me.. now, long after, its not a pretty picture w.r.t. cost of living

• by smitty1e on 9/14/21, 5:59 PM

  $0.25 sounds less than benevolent.