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2 days agoI rewrote the text again, have a look and let me know what you think. Also made some more design changes the donation page.
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“Help Design Lemmy” sounds good, thanks for the suggestion. I looked around for some info about A/B testing but it seems relatively complicated to setup. Do you have any tools to suggest for that? And I can see what you mean about the text sounding unsure. What do you think about this one?
We provide Lemmy as free and open source platform without any tracking or advertising, and work every day to improve it. Yet we also need money to pay our bills and provide for our families. Only 2% of Lemmy users donate, so we need your donation to keep this model working. Thank you for helping to create a new form of social media.
AGPL specifies that everything is provided without liability or warranty, so I dont see how anyone could have reason to sue. Besides Lemmy is not a company, if anything a nonprofit would make sense.
I opened an issue regarding a donation dialog for instance admins, which seems closer to what you mean.
We devs have never met in person, and we are too shy to publicly share our pictures :D
Not sure about the question mark, but the icons are a great idea! Here is how they look with different colored buttons:
That is true, but not so easy to do. To make donation pages like those in your link would require setting up some kind of nonprofit and directly handling credit card payments with some payment processor, and probably various legal requirements. By relying on existing donation platforms we have much less hassle.
Not sure what you mean, I can see these without login:
Right, I removed the asterisk and added a dotted underline instead to indicate hover text. The text with 4 months left is an old leftover, Ive removed it. Also made the text bigger and changed the button layout (though it looks too green now).
It seems difficult to explain these in such a short text. However I will make a similar post soon to improve the donation page on join-lemmy.org, maybe it could be included there as it has more space available.
That is true. You might see it if you use the default web interface once in a while, or app devs could also implement this feature. Anyway its better than nothing.
I can do black, that does actually seem a bit better.
Youre right.
No that would be too annoying.
I was testing a new feature for Lemmy 1.0, native binary releases in addition to Docker. Sorry if it spammed your notifications, should have marked them as draft or prerelease.
Actually thats true. Gonna remove that button for now, we can still add it back later if there are too many complaints.
The dialog can also be translated using weblate (although thats not currently setup for 0.19 backports).
And the dialog cant be linked from other places. In any case we can still make changes after this is released based on feedback.
You mean to add donation links for the instance? That makes sense, but I fear that it would be too complicated for users. Admins already have many ways to put donation links eg in the sidebar and sticky posts, but for developers theres only a small button at the top which is easy to miss. And our donations have gone down a lot, now only 2400 Euro per month.
I can replace them if you can suggest better alternatives. Anyway Lemmy users seem to be older than Reddit users, and those who have spare money to donate should know these normal financial terms.