Watercooler - April 2016

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This is Liberapay's monthly "what's up?" thread. Previous: #18.

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A controversial person has just created an account on Liberapay, a shitstorm may ensue.

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CloudFlare stats:

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Summary of today's discussion between Gratipay and Bountysource: gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#316 (comment)

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We've received an email asking us to close the account of the controversial user mentioned above. See liberapay/liberapay.org#11 for details.

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Deploying to production has become slow, and i have no idea why.

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CloudFlare stats:

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A nano process went crazy on the server, gobbling up CPU. It was making the app slower, I killed it, and we're back to normal now.

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9 Ideas to commercialize open source software

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OpenCollective is now open source

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CloudFlare stats:

There's a visible increase, but they're not actually our visitors, they're people who are browsing pages of other websites that include Liberapay widgets.

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https://twitter.com/liberapaye/status/721993989176614912

Is Liberapay a good alternative to other #crowdfunding platforms? If you think so then "Like" it on http://alternativeto.net/software/liberapay/

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https://twitter.com/liberapaye/status/722436113931997184

Nous souhaitons la bienvenue à @AssoANIS, la première organisation à apparaître dans la section "Sponsors" de https://fr.liberapay.com/ !

Translation:

Welcome to @AssoANIS, the first organization to appear in the "Sponsors" section of https://liberapay.com/ !

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Posted some news on Diaspora* and Facebook:

https://framasphere.org/posts/1741831
https://framasphere.org/posts/1741860
https://www.facebook.com/Liberapay/posts/592463610912050
https://www.facebook.com/Liberapay/posts/592465147578563

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Interesting feedback on a psychological barrier to using Gratipay: freeCodeCamp/devdocs#395

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New ko-fi feature: Say thanks to your donors

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Thankroll

We're launching a new service that helps creators and fans. Discover, fund and follow beautiful new things.

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I'm seeing weird entries in Google's DMARC report today, I've upped our policy to 10% quarantine. (Yes, I know you probably don't understand what the fuck I'm talking about.)

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How a Worker-Owned Tech Startup Found Investors—and Kept Its Values (not directly relevant to Liberapay, but relevant to funding the commons)

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A new team has been created: duniter (the project was formerly called uCoin). That brings the total number of teams to 26. For comparison, Gratipay currently has 183 approved teams.