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Re:A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix by fishywang on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:04PM (#14720574)
Maybe it's only me, but I'm more comfortable for one time donations comparing to these per week/month/year long time commitment you provided. I guess I can choose per year and then cancel it immediately after the donation, but still, I hope you can provide a one time donation option to us.

(I can totally understand why you prefer these long time commitments.)

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Re:A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix by Arathorn on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:13PM (#14720659)
tbh we want to support both :) The bitcoin option is one way of doing one-time donations, and apparently liberapay may be considering it too. We'll also set up a Paypal.me shortly too.
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Re:A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix by Kalq on Friday July 07, 2017 @04:46PM (#14721931)
Maybe consider a kickstarter as well. Qutebrowser apparently does this once a year so the main dev can work on it full time during the summer break from his university. Seems fairly effective.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/the-compiler/qutebrowse...

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Re:A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix by The-Compiler on Sunday July 09, 2017 @03:39PM (#14731294)
qutebrowser author here - I think Kickstarter (or similar crowdfunding platforms) work best when you have a given timeframe (like the 1-2 months I have once a year) and a tangible feature to advertise as part of it. For qutebrowser, that was the new QtWebEngine backend last year (https://igg.me/at/qutebrowser) and a completely new config system this year.
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