At the end of the "gittip crisis" it seems that they capitulated to the demands of a group of users who felt unsafe sharing information about how much money they made. Users who had mostly already left. I think this was a big mistake, as the "leader-board" features provided important social-proof that gratipay worked. That you could make money from it. Tracking how much money projects gave to other projects was good UX, it meant you could feel good about giving money to a large meta-project, because you knew it was passing that money down to smaller projects it depended on.

After they made the decision to remove leaderboards I mostly lost interest.