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Totally out of a blue idea. Probably stupid but… what if there was a system which shows the community in real time how much money is needed/dev,mod,hoster time is worth, and people “top up the jar”. No mystery of „they’re probably already been donated enough”. We’d see how much is needed. Probably would need to have a bit of trust to the receivers not to abuse it but… idk just random thought lol
As a numbers junkie and server admin, I would like to see this start as part of the servers public/private metrics... the server admins can update a few values regularly (cost/time/usage) which can be mashed with active user stats to give a final cost/user that could be publicly available.
then you bolt on the donation pieces and youve got community funding with transparency.
yeah, youre going to need to trust a human being or 3 along the way, but .. yeah.
I know that those that use Open Collective it does something like this, but you have to be approved