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Absolutely. I’d be willing to bet many thousands of developers would pay at least $5/mo for access (sign me up!). That’s at least 1 full time well-paid tech writer. And I think my estimate is highly conservative 1) I’m sure it could be more than $5 and 2) I didn’t include any corporate payments.

My build on this: Mozilla, send out a poll and see if this is something people would thrown down $$$ for.

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Would you pay $5/mo to support it, even if it were fully public? or only if it goes private?

I'm pretty sure a "good enough" alternative would pickup the visibility, such as w3schools, and many won't be able to justify the expense of there isn't some kind of exclusivity.

(there could be some sort of member/sponsor program, but having tried to run those, they have alot of overhead)

Only if it stays public. It was hugely important for me learning web dev, still is, and I would like it to continue to be for everyone entering the profession

There are two existing ways to pay for MDN, that are so well hidden that I only just found out about them:

- Sponsor for $ a month: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/payments/

- Buy Merch: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/mdn-store/

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