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		_v7gu on May 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Sponsors Instead of enabling one-time donations, I see some value in sponsorships with a predetermined EOL: Instead of donating $10 one-time, get a 10-month sponsorship for $1 each and at the end of those 10 months, decide whether you want to continue supporting the developer. Github could charge you the $10 (or the interest-adjusted equivalent) up-front to decrease the transaction costs too. This decreases the variation in the developer's income and lets them plan for the future accordingly, which is always a good thing.

kkarakk on May 23, 2019 [–]

nah it'd be better if you could just tip a developer, i'm more inclined to do a large one time "impulse" donation instead of a continuous drip feed

also i wouldn't want to be listed as a sponsor in case the dev wound up doing something controversial(as Opensource devs are wont to do)

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