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> What do you do if the sum of the monthly pledges goes down at some point? Will you make those features private again?

Nope, any feature that is released will remain public.

> I guess it's a bit counter-intuitive for me that a one-time release of a feature is tied to a recurring sponsorship level.

In the end, I'm selling early access to new features, that's it. If you need something now, and it's available for sponsors only, you need to subscribe to get access to it. You can always implement it yourself, the project is very hackable and puts a great emphasis on extensibility. The documentation is very thorough, also in respect to customization. However, sometimes, maybe especially for something like technical documentation, you don't want to be fighting browser bugs and edge cases.

This is pretty common on the Blender plugin side was well. IE Crowdrender.

Į think certain percentage will just keep the donations on. And of course some will cancel them after the feature is released.

There’s likely enough people continuing to support. As well: if needed there’s exercising the option to set the next feature at the next highest MRR goal.