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Just poking around matrix.org, it's not clear exactly how one would "route [some] $[s] to support development" other than paying someone else for a hosted serve
by gwd 3y ago
Just poking around matrix.org, it's not clear exactly how one would "route [some] $[s] to support development" other than paying someone else for a hosted server. Our open-source project just switched to using Matrix from IRC; we're not really big enough to warrant hosting our own Matrix server, so most of us are just using matrix.org. We have some industry funding, and try to support other open source projects when we can; but not on the order of $250/mo (which if I'm reading it right, looks like the cheapest product on element.io -- $5/user/mo, min 50 users). If matrix.org accepts donations, it's not at all clear from your website.
- Arathorn 3y agoWell, we need to fix that then. https://matrix.org/membership/ https://matrix.org/membership/ and https://matrix.org/blog/2023/06/membership-program/ https://matrix.org/blog/2023/06/membership-program/ is the way to donate.
- gwd 3y agoI see now that somewhere most of the way down the front page there's a button-type link to "Support Matrix", which leads to a page which points either to membership or to a handful of ways to donate: https://matrix.org/support/ https://matrix.org/support/ I'd suggest you make sure there's a link to that page 1) somewhere in the menus 2) somewhere in the footer. I'd also make a link to the membership page from the "About" page, and a link to the "Support Matrix" page from the "Membership" page, so that people who manage to find the Membership page but aren't ready to become members can support via patreon / whatever. Thanks for all your work on Matrix! Looking forward to seeing the improvements coming down the line!