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Related: - (2023-11-08) Tell HN: Bountysource seems to have shut down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38198261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3819

Related: - (2023-11-08) Tell HN: Bountysource seems to have shut down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38198261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38198261 (2 points, 1 (dead) comment) - (2023-09-04) Bountysource.com is Insolvent, do not use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37384014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37384014 (22 points, 1 comment) - (2020-06-17) BountySource have turned evil – alternatives? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23551098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23551098 (226 points, 105 comments) - (2017-11-21) BountySource suspended from GitHub - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747328 (67 points, 52 comments)

KennyBlanken 3y ago
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- mkoryak 3y ago
  Didn't read the article, yea?
  - KleerKut 3y ago
    Why did they even set up a bounty source if they didn't have any plan for spending the money, dividing it, or using it to pay someone who wasn't passionate for the project? They would have been better off spending the money on people not passionate about their project, or perhaps paid bounties to other projects. Now the money is gone. I'd definitely call that leaving it on the table.
    - mvdtnz 3y ago
      Still insisting on not reading the article I see.
      - KleerKut 3y ago
        I'm a different person than above, I have brain damage, and I got all of the information I posted from the article. I get it that some crypto company bought Bounty Source. But in the article they said, "bounties were handled by Team NewPipe. I had set up the account for Team NewPipe on Bountysource, which accumulated a significant sum of money over the years." I understand that they have a lot of volunteers and it isn't easy to get a consensus. Maybe they should have thought of that first? Or perhaps just make a decision and let it be known it would be happening in X period of time that unless there was significant outrage that they were going to do X? Even if they were never going to cash out of the deal, they could have used it to pay other bounties to get work done. Or sit on all that money until it evaporates. "but we did not want to get paid for working on a passion project" If they didn't want the cash in the first place they could have put it towards something else open source. Plus they are complaining about not getting paid while saying they didn't want to get paid. This would scare away anyone wanting to help if they are going to go about things this way, but I don't know because apparently I didn't read the article.
- athrowaway3z 3y ago
  Good luck with getting 6k out of a foreign country of an unresponsive company that is also on the hook for other claims. I will generously put the chances at 1%. $6.000 * 0.01 = $60 expected value. The right move is to reflect on this mistake and move on. If you're offering to put in the work I'm sure they give you a $2k Bounty if you can get the money back.
  - dotancohen 3y ago
    > Good luck with getting 6k out of a foreign country of an unresponsive company Foreign for whom? Award 6k to someone in that country and perhaps they have a legal claim.

KennyBlanken 3y ago

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mkoryak 3y ago
Didn't read the article, yea?
- KleerKut 3y ago
  Why did they even set up a bounty source if they didn't have any plan for spending the money, dividing it, or using it to pay someone who wasn't passionate for the project? They would have been better off spending the money on people not passionate about their project, or perhaps paid bounties to other projects. Now the money is gone. I'd definitely call that leaving it on the table.
  - mvdtnz 3y ago
    Still insisting on not reading the article I see.
    - KleerKut 3y ago
      I'm a different person than above, I have brain damage, and I got all of the information I posted from the article. I get it that some crypto company bought Bounty Source. But in the article they said, "bounties were handled by Team NewPipe. I had set up the account for Team NewPipe on Bountysource, which accumulated a significant sum of money over the years." I understand that they have a lot of volunteers and it isn't easy to get a consensus. Maybe they should have thought of that first? Or perhaps just make a decision and let it be known it would be happening in X period of time that unless there was significant outrage that they were going to do X? Even if they were never going to cash out of the deal, they could have used it to pay other bounties to get work done. Or sit on all that money until it evaporates. "but we did not want to get paid for working on a passion project" If they didn't want the cash in the first place they could have put it towards something else open source. Plus they are complaining about not getting paid while saying they didn't want to get paid. This would scare away anyone wanting to help if they are going to go about things this way, but I don't know because apparently I didn't read the article.
athrowaway3z 3y ago
Good luck with getting 6k out of a foreign country of an unresponsive company that is also on the hook for other claims. I will generously put the chances at 1%. $6.000 * 0.01 = $60 expected value. The right move is to reflect on this mistake and move on. If you're offering to put in the work I'm sure they give you a $2k Bounty if you can get the money back.
- dotancohen 3y ago
  > Good luck with getting 6k out of a foreign country of an unresponsive company Foreign for whom? Award 6k to someone in that country and perhaps they have a legal claim.