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How HN took it
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good way to promote donations, nicer than post-install scripts
From 1 comment
I like this way (thanks) of promoting donations much better than the post-install script[0] I've seen going around (open collective post-install).…
styfle on HN
Good idea that raises awareness of maintainer funding
From 2 comments
I like the idea of this project! I know macOS terminal displays emoji well, but it will make look bad in the rest of the systems. You probably want to use ASCII art fallbacks for…
kbumsik on HNI'm really happy that there's increasing efforts to help fund the people who write the OSS we depend on. I was really happy looking at Evan You (the creator of VueJS) being able…
faizshah on HN
Objections
Suggests donating to people who are paid by their employers, such as Paul Irish on puppeteer
From 1 comment
Seeing `puppeteer` in the example makes me feel odd about this. Isn't it an official Google project by paid Google employees? Eg I thought Paul Irish was a paid Goole employeee,…
bruce_one on HN
Maintainer list from npm publish rights may not match actual donation recipients
From 2 comments
So, that's my fault. To get things started, I added a bunch of authors who had accounts on Patreon and Librepay so `thanks` wouldn't start out completely empty. Specifically, I…
feross on HNTotally agree. Also, to Feross's comment below, I'm not an active developer on puppeteer, but I do have publish rights. :) Feross already sorted this out and nuked me from the…
paulirish on HN
Requests
Parse readmes for donation URLs
From 2 comments
Did you consider the approach of scanning through the readme and looking for urls to known donation sites? Maybe this could be done separately to add to the list?
timlyo on HNUse the couchdb instance at https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry to scrape all readmes, parse them for URLs to known donation services, and seed the db using that.…
aepiepaey on HN
Support OpenCollective integration
From 1 comment
You should partner with OpenCollective.com
andrenotgiant on HN
Use a standard DONATIONS or FUNDING file
From 1 comment
Maybe there could be a standard DONATIONS or FUNDING file alongside LICENSE and friends.
hawski on HN
Questions
How to determine who to donate to
From 1 comment
So, that's my fault. To get things started, I added a bunch of authors who had accounts on Patreon and Librepay so `thanks` wouldn't start out completely empty. Specifically, I…
feross on HN
Should ASCII fallbacks replace emoji in terminals
From 2 comments
I like the idea of this project! I know macOS terminal displays emoji well, but it will make look bad in the rest of the systems. You probably want to use ASCII art fallbacks for…
kbumsik on HNIt's not that they struggle to display emoji, it's just that people are unlikely to be using a font where emoji look as you want them to.
yorwba on HN
Alternatives named
OpenCollective post-install donation prompts
From 1 comment
I like this way (thanks) of promoting donations much better than the post-install script[0] I've seen going around (open collective post-install).…
styfle on HN
Patreon
From 1 comment
I'm really happy that there's increasing efforts to help fund the people who write the OSS we depend on. I was really happy looking at Evan You (the creator of VueJS) being able…
faizshah on HN