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Quoting: brokkrI've been meaning to look into LiberaPay for a while anyway. Seems like a good time to get on that now. Liam, you mention the stability of Patreon but isn't LiberaPay just as stable?Not really. Liberapay just pays in a lump sum for each donation, even though everything still mentions weekly and so on. Whereas Patreon is a nice sum every month, that's what gives us the stability - as we know roughly what we will get each month with Patreon.
Quoting: brokkrI quit Patreon all those years back after the small donations 'scandal'. Can I ask: Is it dumb to still be sore about that? I felt like they never acknowledged _what_ actually was bad about what they did. Instead they just reversed course and a month later tried to joke about it, like 'oopsie haha!'Patreon has taken heat a few times, and rightfully so, but thankfully most of the time they've rethought their decisions. They still offer the best service to small creators.
Quoting: Liam DaweNot really. Liberapay just pays in a lump sum for each donation, even though everything still mentions weekly and so on. Whereas Patreon is a nice sum every month, that's what gives us the stability - as we know roughly what we will get each month with Patreon.
Yeah, I can see that. I hope at least the charges are up front because LP confused me a bit saying "Next payment is in a year". I'm guessing "next" here means "after the one that just went through that we just did".
Anyway, thanks for getting me to finally put my money where my mouth is
Quoting: ArehandoroYou can still see the account ID from the donation in liberapay, isn't it? Wouldn't be possible to map the account ID, if a user wants, to the user in GOL? If the user does not have the real name in GOL or LiberaPay the donation would still be anonymous.
There must be a way I reckon. I donate, without PayPal, via LiberaPay to Codeberg and they use that payment for my membership.
I read their 2021 new years status blog post and the one change they hope to ship this year is the option to donate un-anonymously.
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