Disappointed with Gittip

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19 pointsjareau4 comments

"Gittip is designed for long-term, sustainable funding, and only supports recurring gifts at this time."

Did I miss some great reason why they don't do once off tips? Sometimes you just want to throw 10 bucks at a person and not worry about recurring transaction. I imagine allowing this would increase overall tips due to cheap folk like me.

Sustainability is a core design goal for Gittip. I want to be paying my mortgage from Gittip gifts, so it needs to be predictable and consistent. Does this limit growth? Yes. But it makes the growth we do get much more reliable. Gittip grows slowly and shrinks slowly, and that's by design. Once we have the recurring baseline well-established, I fully expect we'll mix in one-off gifts.

I added a +1 for you here:

https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/issues/5

Well! Nice getting a direct reply from the man himself. Have you considered adding that reason to your FAQ for some comic relief?

I'd be right on this band wagon if once off's were allowed - I'd happily tip three repositories off the top of my head but don't want to commit to ongoing.

Would it be considered bad form to +1 it myself thereby technically causing a +2?

Help yourself to the +2. :)

You can always workaround it by tipping on Thursday and then changing your tip on Friday.

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