Some of this was already corrected in the thread even while Zughy literally requested to not be corrected by core devs, however here's my take:Zughy wrote:4. Open code, close money
The only way to donate is through the website, and it's a PayPal donation link. I find it quite contradictory that a FOSS project has hidden donations. Donations that are not automatically split between every core dev, but that go directly in celeron55 pockets, the same guy who's not making a commit since 2017. Maybe he then splits those money with the rest of core devs (who are doing the 95% of the job), but the only truth here is that I can't tell. Looking at other projects like Veloren, Godot, Krita and Blender I honestly find it absurd. Also, talking about money, considering the 19k Godot makes every month, it comes without saying which engine is (or will be, in the long run) better to develop a voxel game. Money talks, ching ching bling bling, ya know.
It's a PayPal link due to historical reasons - back when I started the project Patreon wasn't still going to exist in 3 years, and even then it probably was available only in the US.
At one point I used to publish donations on the website, but nobody seemed to be interested in them.
Then, publishing donations when they barely cover the hosting costs doesn't feel like an important thing to do. I used to write them down in a text file and compare to the actual hosting costs, but after doing that for years and them basically matching anyway, I couldn't bother anymore. If there's any extra, it doesn't come close to covering the system administration work required, not even mentioning all the other things I'm doing in the background to keep this ball rolling. From my perspective, making commits doesn't keep MT afloat. All the other stuff is a priority.
Anyway, I can't avoid asking the question now: Would people find it more approachable and respectable if I changed to using Patreon or something similar for the purpose of covering hosting costs and getting something for the hours I put into MT?
Collecting money from a singular source and spreading it to core developers (or anyone else) is out of the question because MT does not have a company or non-profit that could legally handle money in such a way.