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Happy to see his Patreon is looking "healthier". I mean $1500/m isn't really that much but I'm sure last I looked it was much lower.

In other news.. consider supporting the people that support you! Personally, I spent over $100/month on Patreon. Most of those are creators rather than open source people but there are a couple of open source ones such as Ondřej Surý who works on PHP packaging in Debian/Ubuntu

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Joey Hess, a formerly prominent Debian developer and author of git-annex, etckeeper and a bunch of other open source projects is also on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/joeyh

Unfortunately, he's only getting $500/m, which isn't much even for someone with a very "off-grid" life: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/notes_for_a_caretaker/

Thanks for the link! I've added him to my patreon-roll (what do you call that?)

Discoverability is a real problem for Patreon, outside of the "most successful"

It's $1050, not $1500. I'm interested in two projects on Patreon (bcachefs and Matrix) and both projects are not getting nearly enough to be self-funded, so this raises the question if this model even works for Open Source. So far any advanced technology seems to be funded by some big corporation and it's not very good. But, I guess, users just don't care about good inner workings, they care about things they personally enjoy (cartoons, etc), so funding those inner workings is still an open question.

I think it's an issue with the marketing of it as well, I recently got notice that some of the most important open source projects I use have a patron page they depend on, yet didn't show it on github, only on their home page under donate. Same as with Kickstarter, if you want funds, you have to properly and visibly ask for it!

I donated a lot to git-annex because he did it right, showing everywhere that you could sponsor the development.

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