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Hi, just read the discussion in #2057 and here. |
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Well, I mainly maintain bridge I use :) Great idea ! |
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Introducing money into what amounts to scraping websites is legally iffy, not sure this is a good solution. It should be clear these are only donations, there's no quid pro quo. If anyone wants to take over the project and ask for donations project-wide it's also OK by me, as long as no license changes happen. It's even already SaaS compatible, if anyone wants to host this and sell access. Good luck with evading the IP blocks... I only maintain some smaller bridges, so it's not big deal for me. To expose this on the interface, I like the proposal in #2102 (comment) |
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Just putting here a question I had in #2102 (comment)
Seems more relevant to discuss that here rather than in #2102. |
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This donation idea does seem neat! Honestly, as someone who contributed, and wanted to be a bridge maintainer, the biggest frustration to me was not having automated tests that the bridges still work. It was frustrating juggling a tonne of issues, some of which are just people using it wrong, and some are it being actually broken. It would have been nice to have a nightly automated test saying "yup, it's broken". It wouldn't need to block merges or anything, just run nightly. We could have a display of which bridges are known to work then, too! I tried adding an example ages back: #1823 but that PR has really decayed since then and I've been busy with a lot of other stuff, (and I've not even had time to set up my own rss-bridge instance and start using it!) The masses of PRs building up, and open issues is quite frustrating for adding much also, so I hope the donations will allow you more ability to churn through all of those! Also, it does seem that Facebook and Instagram (especially Instagram) are actively working to prevent feeds and this sort of thing now? Which.. I'm not certain whether a couple dollars overcomes the dev teams of a multibillion dollar company being assholes. |
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I can't maintain any bridge myself, I don't have (yet) the know-how, but I would gladly donate to a Facebook Bridge dev/maintainer if there was a way to so ! |
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For those, who are subscribed here, I suggest to subscribe other discussion about paying project maintainer's work. |
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Followup from #2057 (comment)
Bridge maintainers give up maintaining their bridges (Instagram and Facebook are main examples). To have more motivation for maintaining them it would be nice, if their work is being payed somehow.
What I suggest?
What to discuss?
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