The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history

Re:The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird... by squarefoot on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:12PM (#22165187)

The Internet Archive is one of the two projects along with Wikipedia that when possible I try to help with some quid, so I was about to donate one more time, but alas their Paypal donation page stopped working months ago. It just displays a darker page with the Paypal logo in the middle and stays there doing nothing. All adblockers already disabled of course.

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Re:The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird... by glenneroo on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:15AM (#22168319)

I'm in Europe and just made a donation via PayPal without any issues. Perhaps they've fixed it in the meantime?

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Re:The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird... by mattl on Monday January 27, 2020 @08:53PM (#22165722)

You can PayPal money to [email protected]

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Re:The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird... by cxr on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:20AM (#22166676)

Wikimedia is a lot like Mozilla. Neither is really hurting for cash.

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Re:The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird... by sp332 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:47AM (#22170412)

The big donors will be much less interested if the organization can't show that lots of people are still invested enough in the project to put a little money into it. The many small donors keep the few big donors around.

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Re:The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird... by bn7t on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:26AM (#22166940)

It's still important to donate to them so they can stay independent.

Say Wikimedia would become dependent on the donations of a company, that company could technically force them to publish misleading information.

In regards to mozilla they are currently not financially independent.

Most of their money comes from google (in exchange google is the default search engine).

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Re:The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird... by cxr on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:55AM (#22168187)

"Dependent" suggests a necessity is being fulfilled, and that's the point of my comment. We're past necessity. Both Mozilla and Wikimedia are already bringing in several times over the amount of cash they need to operate.

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Re:The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird... by zozbot234 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:33AM (#22168405)

AIUI, both organizations have plenty of worthwhile projects which are constrained by available funding. They're not just maintaining a web browser + hosting an encyclopedia.

Of course, this is not to say that funding the Archive isn't also important.

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Re:The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird... by cxr on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:37PM (#22173779)

> both organizations have plenty of worthwhile projects

Yes of course.

But both projects' biggest constraints are not (lack of) funding. It's bad mismanagement, or in the case of Mozilla, really bad mismanagement.

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