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>Microdonation platforms like flattr fail to gain any traction What about Wikipedia? I run my website in this fashion.

• wongarsu 8y ago
  Patreon also works great for some sites (and not at all for some others). To be honest, I don't particularly like Wikipedia's huge banners with pleas to get the last few millions in donations. If every site did that users were as annoyed as they are by regular ads. A donation model might be the best thing to do, we just have to find the best way to implement it.
  • robertAngst 8y ago
    Is that annoyance worse than being blocked from the page? EDIT: serious question, because if it is, I can restrict content on my website.
    • ghaff 8y ago
      It can be, especially if everyone starts doing it--as is increasingly the case. At some point, I'm fine with just doing without sites that have a hard paywall whereas having all, or at least many/most, sites annoy me for donations/subscriptions degrades using the Internet as a whole.
  • Macha 8y ago
    I used to feel guilty about the Wikipedia donation banner, but so much of that spending seems to go elsewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-02-27/Op-ed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... Was wikipedia really 3.5x more expensive to host in 2016 than 2010? Why? (Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287235 )