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so basically sort of a reverse kickstarter for open source. That's brilliant. I love it. I would sponsor someone fixing moving selections in gimp. I cannot fig

by esbwhat 14y ago

so basically sort of a reverse kickstarter for open source. That's brilliant. I love it. I would sponsor someone fixing moving selections in gimp. I cannot figure out how to do it. There has to be a more intuitive method.

reginaldo 14y ago
I'll tell him to put a giant Sponsor button on every screen. First you'll have to click the tiny "Login with google" button in the upper right corner, then the "Sponsor new issue" button. Then you paste the link to the original issue. After that, the site will guide you a little bit better.
- esbwhat 14y ago
  is there a way to sign up for an account, or is that planned? I don't like signing into things with google/whatever
  - reginaldo 14y ago
    Currently there's no other way to sign up. I believe he'll add other ways to sign up soon.
    - tonylampada 14y ago
      > So I'm gonna create a new topic and answer questions there... Turns out I can't do that with a newly created account. Bummer.
  - tonylampada 14y ago
    We will add more ways to signup: facebook, twitter, yahoo and github, at least. I'm not a big fan of owning users' passwords, so unless people really really ask for it, we probably won't add a "create login/pass" functionality. Also, there is the concept of reputation - Sponsors that pay their offers as promised will have good reputation. For reputation to mean something, we need to know something about the user, and I believe linking with a social account is our best option for that. Anyway, talking about FreedomSponsors on GitTip's thread is probably not good for MY reputation here on HackerNews (right? I don't really know, I just signed up). So I'm gonna create a new topic and answer questions there... Thanks for your insterest!
    - 18pfsmt 14y ago
      What about using Mozilla's Persona (formally BrowserID), instead of those commercial services you mentioned?
      - tonylampada 14y ago
        I didn't know about that untill now. I'll look more into it. But the main idea behind the way accounts work on FS is that the user should have some sort of online presence before he can sign up. So if Mozilla's Persona doesn't offer a way for the user to publish some sort of online profile, then we probably won't add it as a primary form of signing up on FS. Linking an existing account to authenticate later is ok. But we do want to make it more difficult to create completely "anonymous" profiles. At least that's our thinking today anyway.
tonylampada 14y ago
Whoa, I just noticed a huge spike in access count from Google Analytics coming from here. So this is what happenned... Hi everyone. I'm Tony, creator of FreedomSponsors. You're absolutely right @ebswhat. Sorry about that. The layout and webdesign still have major room for improvement - we're working on that. Functionality is pretty stable though. To sponsor an issue, just do like @reginaldo said. Gimp is not registered yet so you'll need to fill in more details about it: "Where does the bugtracker live?" and "What's gimp Home page?" Would you please let me know about you usability experience in the Feedback section?

by esbwhat 14y ago

reginaldo 14y ago

I'll tell him to put a giant Sponsor button on every screen. First you'll have to click the tiny "Login with google" button in the upper right corner, then the "Sponsor new issue" button. Then you paste the link to the original issue. After that, the site will guide you a little bit better.

esbwhat 14y ago
is there a way to sign up for an account, or is that planned? I don't like signing into things with google/whatever
- reginaldo 14y ago
  Currently there's no other way to sign up. I believe he'll add other ways to sign up soon.
  - tonylampada 14y ago
    > So I'm gonna create a new topic and answer questions there... Turns out I can't do that with a newly created account. Bummer.
- tonylampada 14y ago
  We will add more ways to signup: facebook, twitter, yahoo and github, at least. I'm not a big fan of owning users' passwords, so unless people really really ask for it, we probably won't add a "create login/pass" functionality. Also, there is the concept of reputation - Sponsors that pay their offers as promised will have good reputation. For reputation to mean something, we need to know something about the user, and I believe linking with a social account is our best option for that. Anyway, talking about FreedomSponsors on GitTip's thread is probably not good for MY reputation here on HackerNews (right? I don't really know, I just signed up). So I'm gonna create a new topic and answer questions there... Thanks for your insterest!
  - 18pfsmt 14y ago
    What about using Mozilla's Persona (formally BrowserID), instead of those commercial services you mentioned?
    - tonylampada 14y ago
      I didn't know about that untill now. I'll look more into it. But the main idea behind the way accounts work on FS is that the user should have some sort of online presence before he can sign up. So if Mozilla's Persona doesn't offer a way for the user to publish some sort of online profile, then we probably won't add it as a primary form of signing up on FS. Linking an existing account to authenticate later is ok. But we do want to make it more difficult to create completely "anonymous" profiles. At least that's our thinking today anyway.

tonylampada 14y ago

Whoa, I just noticed a huge spike in access count from Google Analytics coming from here. So this is what happenned... Hi everyone. I'm Tony, creator of FreedomSponsors. You're absolutely right @ebswhat. Sorry about that. The layout and webdesign still have major room for improvement - we're working on that. Functionality is pretty stable though. To sponsor an issue, just do like @reginaldo said. Gimp is not registered yet so you'll need to fill in more details about it: "Where does the bugtracker live?" and "What's gimp Home page?" Would you please let me know about you usability experience in the Feedback section?