This is actually quite apparent on HN. There's a train you can follow. At the head of the train, going choo choo, is "I would pay $5 for this". The rest of the cars go like this:
- Oh, but not if I have to use Paypal
- Oh, but not if I have to use a credit card
- Oh, but not if I have to use a trackable payment system
- Bitcoin is trackable, Monero or never
- So I have to go through KYC just to pay Mozilla? No fucking way
- 100% of the money should go to tech writers
- Money is fungible, so how do I know they aren't just taking out other money to send this there
- Ever since Pocket, I've changed my mind
- Ever since Brendan Eich, I've changed my mind
- How is it fair that both the tech writer who wrote 20% of the content and the new guy get the same amount from donations?
- If DevTools isn't included there's no point
- If DevTools is included there's no point
And then, in the end, one guy gives like $5/month because he wants to prove to himself that he was honest.
In fact, I'll tell you what: if 50 people reply to this comment pledging $60/yr ($5/month), I'll have someone set up a GoFundMe with a goal of $120k/year to fund one technical writer full time (and his associated payroll taxes etc.). I'll match that with $5k of my own money and I'll handle full comms with Mozilla to try to get them to hire someone. So validation is 2.5% of the final sum. Show me.
EDIT: By the way if it hits 50 many days after (when I won't be notified), my email is in my profile if you want to prod.
- Oh, but not if I have to use Paypal
- Oh, but not if I have to use a credit card
- Oh, but not if I have to use a trackable payment system
- Bitcoin is trackable, Monero or never
- So I have to go through KYC just to pay Mozilla? No fucking way
- 100% of the money should go to tech writers
- Money is fungible, so how do I know they aren't just taking out other money to send this there
- Ever since Pocket, I've changed my mind
- Ever since Brendan Eich, I've changed my mind
- How is it fair that both the tech writer who wrote 20% of the content and the new guy get the same amount from donations?
- If DevTools isn't included there's no point
- If DevTools is included there's no point
And then, in the end, one guy gives like $5/month because he wants to prove to himself that he was honest.
In fact, I'll tell you what: if 50 people reply to this comment pledging $60/yr ($5/month), I'll have someone set up a GoFundMe with a goal of $120k/year to fund one technical writer full time (and his associated payroll taxes etc.). I'll match that with $5k of my own money and I'll handle full comms with Mozilla to try to get them to hire someone. So validation is 2.5% of the final sum. Show me.
EDIT: By the way if it hits 50 many days after (when I won't be notified), my email is in my profile if you want to prod.