Changaco

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   by Changaco 1y ago

   Yes. The box to check is in https://liberapay.com/about/me/edit/privacy
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   by Changaco 1y ago

   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.
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   by Changaco 1y ago

   There are no text selection blocking tricks on Liberapay. Selecting works fine in Chromium, but Firefox seems to be choking on the SVG icons.
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   by Changaco 1y ago

   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
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   by Changaco 6y ago

   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.
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   by Changaco 8y ago

   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.
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   by Changaco 8y ago

   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 ren
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   by Changaco 9y ago

   We did. In fact the option to hide one's income still exists in Liberapay today, more than 3 years after the initial implementation.
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   by Changaco 9y ago

   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.
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    by Changaco 10y ago

    Liberapay uses Weblate: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/liberapay/core/ Gratipay uses Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/gratipay/gratipay/
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    by Changaco 10y ago

    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 wo
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    by Changaco 10y ago

    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 n