Changaco

Yes. The box to check is in https://liberapay.com/about/me/edit/privacy

I asked Stripe back in 2018 if we could expect their unexplained same-region limitation on transfers to be lifted. They said it would be lifted soon. It's 2025, the limitation still exists and I still don't know why.

There are no text selection blocking tricks on Liberapay. Selecting works fine in Chromium, but Firefox seems to be choking on the SVG icons.

Not really, but support for Taler could be implemented in Liberapay. If someone is able and willing to tackle that, there's a possibility of funding the work with an EU grant: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com/issues/1309#issue...

There's no such thing as a direct transfer of virtual money. Just because you don't always see the intermediaries doesn't mean they aren't there.

The drop in donations is because our original payment processor backstabbed us. See https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/the-third-year-of-liberapa... and the two previous posts linked in there for details.

Some people dislike automatic charges, while others don't want to be bothered with renewals, so it's best to support both. For historical reasons related to payment processor limitations Liberapay was launched with only manual renewals, but we're working on implementing automatic charges now.

See our recent blog post “The third year of Liberapay” for more details: https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/the-third-year-of-liberapa...

We did. In fact the option to hide one's income still exists in Liberapay today, more than 3 years after the initial implementation.

Thanks Chad, the feeling is mutual. I'm actually going to Lille again in 2 weeks, I can already say that it won't be the same without you and Jess there.

Liberapay uses Weblate: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/liberapay/core/

Gratipay uses Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/gratipay/gratipay/

There is no perfect metric to determine how much a contributor deserves, but there is another simple solution: let each member choose how much of the project's income they take! This is how Liberapay teams work, and how they used to work on Gratipay (they're working on bringing that feature back).

If you want to know more, the second part of https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/a-new-platform-to-fund-wor... is a short introduction to our teams system and contains a few additional links.

As others have pointed out, platforms to fund work on open source projects already exist, and the best part is: they're open source themselves, so you can contribute! In fact I was the top developer of Gratipay for a year myself, and now I've created a fork called Liberapay (the reasons were the legal difficulties Gratipay faced in the US, and the decision its founder made to turn it into a non-neutral platform).

Links:

https://liberapay.com/ https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com (Python)

https://gratipay.com/ https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com (Python)

https://salt.bountysource.com/ https://github.com/bountysource/core (Ruby)

https://snowdrift.coop/ (not operational) https://git.snowdrift.coop/sd/snowdrift (Haskell)