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I really really wish the flattr model would take off for stuff like this. Each and every site having a huge fundraiser once a year like this seems unsustainable.

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Flattr won't work for the same reason as every other tipjar system has failed. It imposes a transaction cost on the tipper -- "is this work the click?" -- that users simply don't like.

My current startup work is aimed at avoiding that cost entirely.

> It imposes a transaction cost on the tipper -- "is this work the click?"

Since you have a set monthly amount that's just split up among your clicks, I don't see how that's true. You can click on every single site you browse to and it'll just split up your $15/mo "web budget" thinner and thinner among the sites.

That doesn't remove the transaction cost at all. It still requires you to actively decide to click.

It works for public television.

It works because you have only one public television organization in your town.

Conversely, only one public television organization was worth continual year after year funding.

There are many listener supported radio stations in single markets. e.g. WBUR, WGBH, and WBAI in Boston.

I live in a town with 4 separate listener supported radio stations.

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