This is a follow-up to my previous post asking for design suggestions for the new donation dialog. It gave a lot of valuable feedback which is why I'm making another similar post.
This time it's about the donation page on join-lemmy.org (linked above). What can be done to improve the texts and design? For a start I already changed the text to the same one from the donation dialog. Here more space is available, so a longer text with more details could be written (possibly below the donation buttons).
What do you think about the available donation options? Do they work for you or would you prefer to donate through a different platform? On the other hand it is possible that the number of available options is already too confusing. Would it help to add a short description for each button?
Below are lists of contributors, translators and sponsors. They haven't been updated in two years and no one complained, which indicates that they don't serve as motivation for people to contribute or donate. So I would remove that whole section which will leave a lot of free space. What else can we put there, maybe a list of reasons why people should donate?
By the way I plan to make a recurring series of posts like this. The next ones will likely cover onboarding for new users, the reports page and more. If you know a catchy name for this series you can also comment it below.
Edit: The changes are now deployed, but you are welcome to make further suggestions.
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Short and simple is always better, people stop reading if it's too long.
Here's a good listicle about donation pages. https://wpforms.com/donation-page-examples-to-inspire-your-online-fundraising/
That is true, but not so easy to do. To make donation pages like those in your link would require setting up some kind of nonprofit and directly handling credit card payments with some payment processor, and probably various legal requirements. By relying on existing donation platforms we have much less hassle.
Sorry, I meant just the text as examples. Maybe a cute picture with the devs all together would help.
We devs have never met in person, and we are too shy to publicly share our pictures :D
Shouldn't it be a good idea anyway to set up a limited liability company at some point anyway? in case you will get sued.
AGPL specifies that everything is provided without liability or warranty, so I dont see how anyone could have reason to sue. Besides Lemmy is not a company, if anything a nonprofit would make sense.
IANAL , but theoretically a judge could decide that part of the AGPL is "unreasonable" and a case could go to trail which could be expensive.
Also you are still running the lemmy.ml instance which could theoretically lead to a lawsuit. its why lemmy.world created the fedihosting foundation which reportedly functions as a limited liability company.
Also a cooperative (what you want to set up), where some of the profit in the form of a salary go to the "owners" which are the workers as far as i can tell can't be a non profit