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Comment by richdougherty | Hacker News Reader

I'd love to know how this project manages to get such high quality stories out for every update. I assume their project has a community member who is passionate about writing. It's such a rare, but useful thing to have someone volunteer their time to do great technical writing. I wish someone would do it for the open source projects I work on!

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As far as I'm aware, the user you're thinking of is JMC4789- they do some fantastic writeups.

They've recently started a side blog (http://emucross.com/), as well.

If you're curious, their reddit submission history (https://www.reddit.com/user/JMC4789/submitted/) has a bunch of interesting stuff.

They seem to have people on the forum with 'Content Creator' badges who work on these reports: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-dolphin-progress-repor.... Great idea to recognise people who help in other ways other than coding.

It's an incredibly impressive project. I can't believe they're not on Patreon (maybe this type of project doesn't qualify?). They're more high quality with their updates and the writeups about their updates than most commercial software made by professionals getting paid.

The Dolphin project doesn't accept donations in any form, IIRC they said that fairly splitting the money between the contributors would be too difficult.

Apparently their infrastructure costs are covered by the few ads on the site and they're happy to leave it at that.

Wow, that's a decision I deeply respect.

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