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For the value that OBS provides to the “creator economy” between YouTube and Twitch alone, I’m surprised there haven’t been more events by creators to support the devs.

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It would be cool if streamers had a universal OBS appreciation day where all donations get funneled to OBS, similar to the charity streams.

“What we do wouldn’t be possible without amazing software so if you want to help support the team that helps me and many of your other favorite streamers do what we do, head on over to obsdonos.com” kinda thing.

You're absolutely right, but to some extent, that'll be covered by their platforms, who are pledging at least $50,000 to OBS (but I suspect much more). [1]

[1]: https://obsproject.com/contribute

That doesn't cover even a single full-time developer, so while it's nice, it's not really meaningful. Think about how much Twitch pays for something like Slack or Google Docs. (I'm sure they have in-house alternatives, which probably make them even more expensive, actually.)

Between Patreon and the contributors page they're getting about $60k/yr, which doesn't include YouTube, Twitch, or Facebook, who are presumably donating/supporting enough to cover multiple developers each to earn that spot on the page.

I'd love to see more public, vocal support of OBS too but let's not pretend that they're collecting change out of couch cushions to pay the people working on it.

>That doesn't cover even a single full-time developer

Absolutely does, just not in the US.

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